Car dealerships use target prices to forecast an ideal price for selling each of their vehicles. ... Also, the labor and material costs for domestic cars are more reasonable than that of imported cars. ... Only sport utility vehicles dropped while other cars such as sedans, minivans, sport cars, luxury cars, and other cars within the field did not. Another factor that affects such a decrease in car prices are complementary goods. ... Domestic cars on the other hand can be compared to imported cars but on a smaller scale. ...

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Abstract Car-to-car communication aims at increased driving comfort and safety. ... In this paper we present the potential of future car-to-car and car-to-environment communication systems, introduce the major research challenges in this field, and provide a selection of current research results. ... The mission and the objectives of the CAR-TO-CAR Communication Consortium are • To create and establish an open auto world industry standard for CAR-TO-CAR Communication Systems • To guarantee inter-vehicle operability • To enable the development of active safety applications by s...

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The most widely used energy efficient car on today's market is called the hybrid car. ... Both of these cars have a drawback however. ... Each hybrid car costs an average of $10,000 more than a similarly configured conventional gasoline powered car. ... The last improvement in hybrid cars over conventional cars is it's low fuel cost. ... The drawbacks of hybrid cars are noticeable, but don't affect the car's performance tremendously. ...

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Sulfur Dioxide causes lung irritation and acid rain like Nox but it also interferes with a car part (i.e. catalytic converter) that gives the car the ability to reduce emissions. ... Among them are solar and the more recent solution hydrogen powered cars. ... Solar cars are the oldest suggested answer to the vehicle pollution problem. ... However unlike conventional cars, solar cars store energy absorbed when braking rather than wasting it entirely to heat and noise. ... Converting a nice old car into an electric car would be noticeably less than a new gas powered car. ...

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Buying a car consists of a great deal of searching, researching and decision-making. ... Reliability of the car is another thing to investigate at this point, as no one wants a car that is frequently breaking down or needing repairs. ... Car buyers may also scour car dealerships for the car they want, which allows for them to see the car in person. ... It is important for the person that is interested in the car to be able to get an in-depth look at the car and test-drive it. ... The last step in buying a car is the actual purchase. ...

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Hybrid cars have been introduced to the USA in 1999. Hybrid cars differ from gasoline cars in many ways. ... A hybrid car is a combination of a gasoline powered car and electric powered car. ... Hybrid cars are more affordable than gas powered cars in the long term. ... If more people drove hybrid cars instead of gas powered cars, the conditions of the environment would tremendously improve mostly in the air. ...

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Riding in cars helps you get to places, but sometimes people would want to ride in a car that would look nice while in tha streets. People choose to buy expensive, nice cars rather than buying some old raggidy cheap cars. ... In advertisements on television and in magazines, they show brand new cars comparing old cars. ... This is the best kind of car that will be found. ... People who purchase this car start to put rims, headlights, and other nice accessories to add to their car. ...

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Car sales is one of the hardest jobs I've ever done. ... Put gas in your car so you can get to work the next day? ... The hours the average car salesman puts in are ridiculous. ... You can add car salesman to that list. ... Why anyone would come out and buy a car on Christmas Eve? ...

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Some performance cars can now reach 100km/h in less than four seconds. ... These days the average family car has a six-cylinder engine. ... Car writer Bob English, once commented that a turbo version of a particular car wasn't as much fun as the non-turbo version because while you were holding on, you couldn't appreciate the luxury and comfort of the car. ... There are quite a few cars that have 250+ kilowatts, which is dangerously powerful, and there is even a car that has 660kilowatts, and is street legal! If a car can have this much power now, how much power will cars in ten ye...

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As you will see in the essay the price of a luxuries car in 1953 is much cheaper than an average everyday car of today. ... The Rocket is known as a family car, it has plenty of room for everyone. ... It is both a sporty car and a family car depending on what you uses for it are. ... This gives the car a fun and sporty look. The Volvo is a much more compact car than the Olds. ...

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Super gas and super stock cars are two common cars used in drag racing. ... The slower car in the race gets green lighted before the faster car by a margin of distance in which dial times are chosen. If both cars have a reaction time that is equal, the cars then run the posted dial up. ... When a car fouls it gives a chance to a car that has a break guy and allows that car to advance to the next round. ... A driver may also dial a car slower than it can go. ...

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Cars, people having been using them since the first day they came out. ... All you had to do was sit in a car, push a pedal and it would move for you. ... It turned out later almost every other person had a car. ... The invention of a car had to have been one of the most important inventions of all time. ... There is still competition between companies that build and manufacture cars which show that overall the industry of cars is still growing and is an important aspect to life. ...

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My opinion about cars has always been simple; a transportation tool that takes someone from point A to point B. ... All the long drives made me less interested in cars since there wasn't much to do with them. But technology has advanced, and a lot of options became available in the last ten years when it comes to cars. Ever since I saw the movie "The Fast and the Furious", my opinion about cars has begun to change. ... The point of the film was to catch the guys who raced the cars illegally. ...

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"Who killed the electric car?"" ... The documentary is set in the 1990's during the infancy of electric and hybrid car technology. ... The documentary sets out on a quest to discover the reason behind the demise of the electric car and some of the eco-friendly policy that helped encourage the car's creation. ... Former EV1 owners follow truck loads of the cars after they have been confiscated by GM. ... The filmmakers of "Who Killed the Electric Car?"" ...

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He provided these jobs through his factory that created luxury passenger cars for trains his factory were called Pullman Palace Car Company. Things appeared to be perfect at first, everyone was happy and the factory was putting out new cars with great efficiency, but like everything in the world things are not always as great as they appear. On May 11, 1894 the truth was revealed when the employees walked out in order to protest the unfair wages they were receiving at Pullman Palace Car Company. ...

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If the Camaro ZL1's brakes don't work while the car is shifting, the car may just slide off the racing track. ... The magnets attach and the car stops while the magnets repel when the car is driving. ... A coupe is a car that has a roof and could not be folded. A convertible is a car that has a fold up roof that started from the hood of the car and folded to the trunk. ... A famous car like this needs many fans and audience. ...

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Car manufacture were trying to create a car that combine has and fueled internal combustion engine with a electric battery driven. ... Those two main sources combined and do all the driving function of the car. These car mostly run with a continuously variable transmission or CVT. ... Toyota Prius is well known as the most popular hybrid car. ... A hybrid car is not only about fuel efficient but is also another way that we can save money on a gas to a car that we drive every single day. ...

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The hybrid car uses both fuel and electricity. ... Since most car trips are less than 75 mi, electric cars can help meet the needs of many two- or three-car families (El-Messidi, Automobile Industry). ... I see no use of this car for me. ... The fuel cell car is three times more efficient than the gas powered car. ... That choice will be to spend money on a clean economical car or smog driven gas guzzling current cars. ...

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Electric cars have been looked at as a possible solution, but are they viable? ... One prominent alternative of fueled vehicles is the electric car. ... The cost of re-furbishing a used car would be noticeably cheaper and smoother than buying a brand new car. The engine and battery of an electric car would last much longer than a gasoline powered car. ... The cars may not produce any emissions, but the plants where the cars are produced emit almost as much pollution as gas vehicles do. ...

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In the car ad included we see the car in all of its glory. ... When you look at a car ad, you do not often find a paragraph or some sort of warning of the emissions the engines and exhausts of those cars produce. ... Hydrocarbons aren't the only pollutants released through car exhaust. ... Nitrogen oxide is formed when a car engine gets hot. ... This is the venting of gasoline when the car's engine is running. ...

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All the talk these days about alternative fuels, electric cars, and hybrid cars sounds like progress, but what is it all about? ... Electric vehicles get their energy from the car's batteries. ... Newer technologies often cost more and the electric car is no exception. ... Now, cars can be used anytime, and it only takes a quick fill up to keep going. ... Alternative fuels, electric cars, and hybrids are all attempts at reducing the harmful emissions that cars currently put out on a daily basis. ...

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Car Problems My beautiful used car had run seven months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. ... I grieved about it as if it were a family member as my car stalled and inoperable in a turn lane. ... Eventually I cheered up, called a tow truck and had the car towed to the car dealership. ... He said he could reduce the price by half the fee of normal car shop including installing. ... After this the car would run well, but nothing more than that. ...

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This car was probably the best car at that time, because it could hold three gallons of fuel, which was cheap to get. ... This car caught the eye of the Prince of Wales; he said that he had ordered a similar car. In traditional forms, the king said, that this car was for the elite. ... After a few years went by Henry Ford came out with the most famous car ever made the "Model T". ... There were other cheaper cars out on the market but none was better than Henrys Ford cars. ...

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Cars today look more like something from a science fiction movie rather than a normal car. ... A small video camera is placed in the car and it analyzes the drivers face. ... As more and moresmart cars? ... Even most electric cars are not as efficient as they should be. ... The system is calledConnected Car PC Concept?. ...

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Have you ever been in a car accident before? ... Let me tell you about the car accident that i was in. ... All of the sudden we felt a huge bump from our car. ... Kristy got out of the car and took Alison out of her car seat. ... We turned around and looked at our car. ...

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