Essays About Cars

How does BMW motivate its employees? BMW’s Dream Factory Sharing the wealth, listening to even the lowest-ranking workers, and rewarding risk have paid off big time. The car looks like the victim of some mad scientist’s experiment gone awry. Inside a research lab in Munich, a BMW 5 Series sedan is splayed open, with electronic […]

The Railcar in the movie “Paper Clips” is now filled with paperclips. Every paper clip they have came with a story, and every paper clip is representing somebody. When people go into that car, they feel those things. They understand the pain, and remember the stories. People can visualize the victims in there. The Railcar […]

In 1908, the company branched out overseas to the United States where production increased. Fiat then ventured into other industries such as steel, electricity and public transport. During the First World War, all production was aimed at munitions. During the reign of Mussolini, Fiat had to concentrate on the domestic market. Technological developments were vast […]

The automobile industry in Germany is one of the largest employers in the country, with a strong labour force of over 866,000 (2005) workers in the industry. In addition, Germany has the largest share of passenger car production in Europe with over 29% market share, followed by France (18%), Spain (13%) and the United Kingdom […]

Porter’s five forces applied to Zipcar Threat of new entrants: Potential new entrants include existing car rental firms, companies that currently supply cars to car-sharing businesses (such as Volkswagen), and new start-up car-sharing ventures. As Zipcar is operating in only Boston, there are opportunities for new entrants (with sufficient resources) to establish themselves as dominant […]

Several years ago, a driver named Leonardo Turriago and two of his companions were arrested by New York state troopers upon discovering sliced body parts stored in boxes piled under his trunk. Those troopers who accidentally found the dead body were actually hunters of illegal firearms. After the investigators found that they had no evidence […]

 An Enterprise is a business that is available for general public use and one such business was started almost 5 decades ago by a man named John Taylor in the year 1957. It was named the Enterprise Rent-a-car and the founders had no idea when they started it that this would become the world’s most […]

The company that I have chosen to computerize deals with motor vehicles spare parts and belongs to Mr. Wong. The Wong Spare Parts and Car Selling Agency was founded in year 2000. It is situated in the south of the island, more precisely, at Mahebourg. Infact it is specialized in almost all spare parts of […]

The growth of car ownership was the most important cause of social change in Britain in the 1960s. Explain why you agree or disagree.There are many reasons for why car ownership was a very important factor for the cause of social change in Britain in the 1960’s. However, as well as this there were many […]

Many believed in 1983, that Margaret Thatcher’s first term in office would be her last. There were deep party divisions’ amongst the conservatives, and many were sacked or driven to resign. Margaret Thatcher was accused of “steering the ship of state straight on to the rocks. ” by her ex colleague Sir Ian Gilmour. The […]

Road accident is a global tragedy with ever-raising trend. In Malaysia, it represents a major public problem because of the high number of victims involved and also the seriousness of the consequences for the victim themselves and to their families as well. Accidents are generally classified as single vehicle accidents in which the vehicle is […]

Race the Strip, Not the Street. One of the fastest growing worldwide sports right now is racing. There are numerous forms of racing but Street Racing is one that is mainly performed by teenagers. Street racing originated from Drag Racing, on a quarter-mile strip. As the sport of street racing began to spread around the […]

Since its founding in 1971, Hard Rock has gone thru many strategy changes. The company started out as just a small London cafe, and now has 110 cafes thru ought the world, hotels, casinos, live music venues, a rock museum, and an annual Rock concert. Hard Rock also makes a significant amount of their revenue, […]

Marketing Strategies – HYUNDAI The case discusses the marketing strategies of Korea based Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) in India. HMC entered India by establishing its wholly owned subsidiary Hyundai Motors India Limited (HMIL) in 1996. Within a year of launch of its first product – Santro, HMIL had emerged as the second largest car company […]

Introduction In the late 1980s, Ford strategists took a good look at the booming luxury-car market and realized they needed a global luxury brand to rival BMW and Mercedes-Benz. They considered acquiring several luxury brands. First on the list was Alfa Romeo. But Ford lost Alfa Romeo when Fiat intervened, with a little help from […]

Small curls of a shiny, metallic looking substance float down onto a mountain of shreds. These shreds belong to cars– the Honda EVs (electric vehicles), to be exact. In the thought-provoking documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car? , director Chris Paine looks into the birth, rise, and fall of the electric car. This 2006 documentary […]

Executive Summary Zipcar, a self-service car company with the largest active membership base of any car-sharing service in the United States, is facing a problem with the availability of the vehicle at appropriate time. This situation arises when the customer failed to return its car on time and the next customer is waiting at the […]

In 1977, a comprehensive study of road safety found that human error was the primary cause in 57% of all automobile accidents and was a contributing factor in over 90%. With this discussion, we must keep in mind that the overall attention MUST be kept on the road and on driving. Many of the accidents […]

After reading “Chrysler Enters the Race to Introduce Electric Models” by, Bill Vlasic Chrysler is planning on producing an electric car to sell in 2010. Chrysler has three electric models now but is planning on producing a full line of cars in the future. This is an attempt by the auto maker to compete in […]

Objectives The purpose of this paper is to determine from the perspective of an investor interested in international capital markets what companies are better to invest in.The companies analyzed in this project are General Motors Corporation (GM) based on the United States and the Volkswagen Group (VW) based on Germany. Even though the two companies […]

Toyota Motor Corporation is the worlds eight largest company and the second in overall production of vehicles worldwide. It is expected to overtake GM as the leading manufacturer of automobile by 2008. Toyota Motor Corporation and its subsidiaries sold over 7. million passenger cars, trucks, and buses worldwide under the Toyota, Scion, Lexus, Daihatsu and […]

Honda Technology Research Institute Company is a multinational corporation, engine manufacturer and engineering corporation headquartered in Japan. The company manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, scooters, robots, jets and jet engines, ATV, water craft, electrical generators, marine engines, lawn and garden equipment, and aeronautical and other mobile technologies.Honda’s line of luxury cars are branded Acura in North […]