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Bibendum, the power of branding
An excellent example of brand building. The 100 years of Binbendum expose you to the primitive form of advertising and its development. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Advertising & Promotion    2. Automotive - Industry    3. Transportation   

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Value depends on what you are looking for...
If you are looking for a "Toyota Way" level of insight in to Honda, it's definitely not here.If you want a manual for how to implement Honda's BP tools, it's not here.The BP material seems to be mostly just treated as magic that floats in and produces fantastic gains.
Honda's production system
Honda developed a unique approach to building a supply base and managing production that parallel the Toyota Production System, only Honda margins proved higher than Toyota's.Powered by Honda contains stories and examples illustrating how this simple kaizen-based system works.[...]

Powered by Honda
If you are interested in Honda as a car company Do-Not-Buy this book. The book is about a proven system to improve business relations with suppliers (BP) that Honda pioneered. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American Honda Motor Company    2. Automobile Industries (Economic Aspects)    3. Automobile industry    4. Automobile industry and trade    5. Automotive - Domestic - History    6. Automotive - History    7. Business & Economics    8. Business / Economics / Finance    9. Business/Economics    10. Corporate & Business History    11. Corporate & Business History - General    12. Industrial Production    13. Industries - General    14. Management    15. Management - General    16. Production control    17. United States    18. Management & management techniques    19. Purchasing & supply management   

Subjects:  1. Electric Power Systems    2. Electric lines    3. Electric power distribution    4. Electricity    5. Electronic Equipment Maintenance And Repair    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Automotive technology    10. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades   

Editorial Review

It takes a while to get used to Vincent Curcio's highly colored prose, but his old-fashioned narrative technique suits his subject, the Kansas railroad mechanic who rose to become head of America's most dynamic car company. Born in 1875, Walter P. Chrysler came late to the automobile business, joining Buick in 1912, when the early companies were firmly established. Chrysler made his mark by being a great leader who thoroughly understood engineering and production, and who valued the contributions of his employees and directed them to produce high-quality, popularly priced cars. He made it his business to ignore conventional wisdom: he headquartered his company in New York instead of Detroit, commissioned a fabulous art deco skyscraper to house it, and introduced the first mass-produced, streamlined, aerodynamic car in 1934. The Airflow was a financial disaster but hugely influential on future design, and the well-managed Chrysler Corporation made money even during the Great Depression. Chrysler himself became enormously wealthy and enjoyed a lavish lifestyle during the decade before his death in 1940. Curcio's detailed, wide-ranging text offers an instructive history of the automobile industry as well as a full-bodied portrait of a classic American individual, praised by his peers as "one of the world's greatest manufacturers and one of the world's best men." Read more

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Overly-written biog of an interesting rags-to-riches automaker

Automotive History
A great book! The author is big on automotive history, so you will know more about the industry and the people that formed it. Walter Chrysler just seems to be the man he tells the story around. I have found interest in other people from this time frame to read about too from this book.

The other great one
Having read extensively in the past about both Ford Motor Company and General Motors, I was very interested in getting to know the other member of the "Big Three" (sadly, today we can only talk about the remaining two after Chrysler's incompetent Bob Eaton surrendered the company to Daimler Benz).Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Business    5. Historical - U.S.    6. Leadership    7. 20th century    8. Biography & Autobiography / Business    9. Biography: general    10. Business | History    11. Road vehicle manufacturing industry    12. USA   

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BUYERS BEWARE!
DO NOT BE FOOLED AS I WAS! I ordered this study guide in preparation for the ASE tests that I was going to be taking this fall.This guide is very poorly put together and NOT EVEN PROOFREAD apparently...it's a complete joke!Let me give you a few examples of why this is a HUGE waste of your money.
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Subjects:  1. Automobile mechanics    2. Automobiles    3. Automotive    4. Automotive - General    5. Automotive - Repair & Maintenance    6. Certification    7. Examinations    8. Examinations, questions, etc    9. Maintenance and repair    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Study guides    12. Technical & Manufacturing Trades    13. Technology    14. Engineering skills & trades    15. Motor cars: general interest    16. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades   

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Chilton does it again - Don't waste your money
As usual Chilton has produced another manual that is useless to anyone who wants to do much more than check the tire air pressure.All repairs that require a slight bit of mechanical ability are not described and instead the reader is advised to take the car to the dealer.Don't bother buying this book.Read the owner's manual that came with the car instead.

A Decent Book, With Some Limitations
Chilton books have been part of my automotive coping strategy for years- one of their publications once even helped me find out where a bad repair from my mechanic went off track, and I was able to give the mechanic enough info to get the repair re-done correctly. This book seems to be okay, with one exception that is usual to Chilton guides. There is not NEARLY enough information on dismantling soft trim and dash components, and what there is does not cover the different configurations you're likely to find. For instance, this guide shows how the centre console goes together- but only the extra-cost version with the stick shift in it. The standard console- found in most Tauruses- is not shown at all. Since many owners confine their do-it-yourself efforts to fixing soft trim glitches and replacing light bulbs, this is a considerable lack in Chilton's efforts. Recommended, nontheless- there's very good info on what's under the hood, and it's very specific concerning what CAN be repaired and what is factory-set, and therefore not to be messed with.That's invaluable info on today's highly computerised cars. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Automotive    2. Automotive - Repair & Maintenance    3. Domestic Auto And Light Truck Repair    4. Handbooks & Manuals    5. Handbooks, manuals, etc    6. Maintenance and repair    7. Reference    8. Sable automobile    9. Taurus automobile    10. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades    11. Transportation / Automotive / Repair & Maintenance / General    12. Vehicle workshop manuals    13. TransportationAutomotive   

Subjects:  1. Automobile industry and trade    2. Automotive - Industry    3. China    4. Energy consumption    5. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    6. Environmental aspects    7. Government - International    8. Nature    9. Nature / Field Guide Books    10. Nature/Ecology    11. Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection    12. Pollution & threats to the environment    13. Road vehicle manufacturing industry   

Subjects:  1. Automotive - Repair & Maintenance    2. Science/Mathematics    3. Technical & Manufacturing Trades    4. Technology    5. Technology & Industrial Arts    6. Trucks    7. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades    8. Transportation / Automotive / Repair & Maintenance / General   

Subjects:  1. Automobiles    2. Environmental Science    3. Environmental aspects    4. Management    5. National parks and reserves    6. Natural Resources    7. Nature    8. Nature/Ecology    9. Politics - Current Events    10. Politics / Current Events    11. Public Policy - Environmental Policy    12. Public use    13. United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest    14. United States - West - Pacific (General)    15. Washington (State)    16. American studies    17. Conservation of the environment    18. Transport industries   

Subjects:  1. Advertising    2. Advertising & Promotion    3. Automobile Industries (Economic Aspects)    4. Automobiles    5. Automotive - General    6. Automotive - History    7. Economic History    8. Great Britain    9. Industries - General    10. Transportation    11. British Isles    12. Road vehicle manufacturing industry    13. c 1960 to c 1970   

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Good book
i use this book at college and i feel this is one of the best ive seen

is kind of good....but the price is too high......
As a student at Fresno city college, our intruction use this book and I feel that the book cost too much becuase most of the student cannot afford.Please lowered the price so every student will the book and get theknowlege to share. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Automobiles    2. Automotive    3. Automotive - General    4. Automotive - Repair & Maintenance    5. General    6. Maintenance and repair    7. Motors    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technical & Manufacturing Trades    10. Technology    11. Automotive (motor mechanic) skills    12. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades   

Subjects:  1. Automobile Industries (Economic Aspects)    2. Automobile industry and trade    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Case studies    5. Infrastructure    6. Japan    7. Literary Criticism    8. Management    9. Suggestion systems    10. Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kais    11. Toyota Jidåosha Kabushiki Kaisha   

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An historical document of our contemporary
There are different "uses" for this book - some I'd recommend, and others not.
A Visionary in Many Arenas
This is the book that made me appreciate Mr Ford's accomplishments and how he changed the world of business, particularly manufacturing.He was a leader and true visionary in many aspects of business, which are chronicled herein, and many of the roots of Lean are documented in this text.Aside from kanban and `jelly beans', he didn't miss much of the fundamentals of what we see as Lean.
The book that inspired Taiichi Ohno
This is an outstanding book for those folks in manufacturing who are starting out on their "Lean" journey. The book teaches the uninitiated an original thinker's way of recognizing "waste" in manufacturing, and often, how to deal with that waste. Taiichi Ohno took a "shipload" of this book with him to Japan in the '50s and made sure that every Toyota engineer read the book. The rest is history as to how Toyota packaged this information for the rest of the world, including the United States, in its now famous "7 wastes of manufacturing." You will enjoy the book and learn what an outstanding visionary Henry Ford really was. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Automobile Industries (Economic Aspects)    2. Business & Economics    3. Business/Economics    4. Engineering - Automotive    5. Ford Motor Company    6. General    7. Industrial management    8. Leadership    9. Management    10. Management - General    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Manufacturing industries   

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DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY
DO NOT BE FOOLED AS I WAS! I ordered this study guide in preparation for the ASE tests that I was going to be taking this fall.This guide is very poorly put together and NOT EVEN PROOFREAD apparently...it's a complete joke!Let me give you a few examples of why this is a HUGE waste of your money.
You sent me the "Wrong Book"
I ASKED FOR BOOK "a-7" AND YOU SENT ME BOOK "a-1"

Below expectations
I just took the A7 test and found myself unprepared for some of the questions. This book gives you a decent overview of the basics, but there are some diagnosis senarios on the actual test that this book does not cover. The book is organized by the ASE task lists with many redundancies in the text when the tasks require similar knowledge. I expected this new edition to give me sample questions very similar to the current test. The practice tests in this book seem based more on the book than the real test. One might do well taking the sample tests if they read the book, but have a problem with some questions on the actual test that the book did not prepare you for. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Automobile mechanics    2. Automobiles    3. Automotive    4. Automotive - General    5. Automotive - Repair & Maintenance    6. Certification    7. Examinations    8. Examinations, questions, etc    9. Maintenance and repair    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Study guides    12. Technical & Manufacturing Trades    13. Technology    14. Transportation    15. Engineering skills & trades    16. Motor cars: general interest    17. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades   

Subjects:  1. Automotive    2. Engineering - Industrial    3. Industrial Process Control    4. Industrial Robotics    5. Manufacturing    6. Robotics    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Computer aided manufacture (CAM)    10. Industrial Chemistry & Manufacturing Technologies    11. Industry & Industrial Studies    12. Technology / Industrial Design / General   

Editorial Review

The electric vehicle of historian David Kirsch's title is an old technology that seems ever on the verge of making a comeback. In the late 1890s, the electric engine competed with steam- and gasoline-driven engines to become the standard for automobile manufacturers, and it remained competitive for nearly a decade until, in the early 1900s, the internal-combustion engine captured the market.Read more

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Great Read ... Interesting Thesis
Electric Vehicles giving way to the Internal Combustion Engine was not a given at the turn of the 20th century.
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Subjects:  1. Automobile industry and trade    2. Automobiles    3. Automobiles, Electric    4. Automotive - Antique & Classic    5. Design and construction    6. History    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Transportation    9. United States    10. American history    11. Atmospheric pollution    12. Automotive technology    13. Impact of science & technology on society    14. Petroleum technology    15. Social history    16. Sociology, Social Studies    17. USA   

Subjects:  1. Automotive - Repair & Maintenance    2. Domestic Auto And Light Truck Repair    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technical & Manufacturing Trades    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades    8. Transportation / Automotive / Repair & Maintenance / General   

Editorial Review

Few consumers have been attracted to "clean" cars--those powered by something other than traditional internal combustion engines--because they aren't satisfied yet with critical factors such as appearance (too odd), cost (too high), dependability (too uncertain), and performance (too limited). The times they are a-changing, however. A host of catalysts, including new legal requirements and shifting public opinion, is finally driving automakers toward relevant alternative technologies that actually date back 160 years. And Jim Motavalli, who travels an unusual professional route as both syndicated auto columnist and environmental reporter, chronicles the buildup and potential payoff in his intriguing book Read more

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Too Shrill To Be Taken Seriously
Environmentalists every stripe probably sit and wonder why they cannot seem to get any traction with their anti-gas guzzler campaign, and this lunatic raving is the perfect example of why that is. Motavalli has a wealth of facts and data at his disposal, but his potentially rational arguments are crowded out by his shrill denunciations of auto executives, auto workers and consumers, all of whom he scorns for not being as enlightened as he likes to think he is. Motavalli's fault is not in his material, but in his presentation. He could very well have made a profound impact with this book, much in the way Eric Schlosser did in the expose Fast Food Nation. Yet because Motavalli can't help but being hysterical for hysteria's sake, the reader comes away with the feeling that he has just attended a meeting of the Anti-Automobile Front, or some such extremist group where ecoterrorism is considered moderate. Too bad. This book, by accident to be sure, adds another victory to Detroit: it shows how irrational and extreme its critics are, and thus makes the dinosaurs in Detroit look reasonable by comparison. No wonder no one takes Motavalli seriously enough to propel him onto the bestseller list.

HIS BROTHA
This book is just flat out amazing.I read it every night, and that's a lot of reading (272 pages a night).Anyways, trust me, it talks about cars that are developing, such as electric and nitrogen...Peace out fools

all up in your mug
this is the most exciting and interest book i have ever read on cars.I have found out so much information on cars of the future it is amazing.Jim Motavalli does a great job of explaining how these cars will work to the average person who doesnt know alot about cars. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Electric automobiles    3. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    4. Fuel cells    5. General    6. Hybrid electric cars    7. Industries - Automobile Industry    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Automotive technology    11. Biography: general    12. Nature / General   

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SixMen
Just finished this book in a day, it was impossible to for me to put down.Johnson takes these six men and outlines their impressive careers and their contributions to the Automotive industry in depth.
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Subjects:  1. Automobile Industries (Economic Aspects)    2. Automobile industry and trade    3. Automobile industry executives    4. Automotive - General    5. Automotive - History    6. Automotive - Industry    7. Biography    8. History    9. Industrialists    10. Management    11. Transportation    12. Road vehicle manufacturing industry    13. Transportation / Automotive / General   

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Delmar books are hardly worth the paper they are printed on!
DO NOT BE FOOLED AS I WAS! I ordered this study guide in preparation for the ASE tests that I was going to be taking this fall.This guide is very poorly put together and NOT EVEN PROOFREAD apparently...it's a complete joke!Let me give you a few examples of why this is a HUGE waste of your money.
Better than most ASE Manual Drive Prep books
I'm using this to help preapre for the ASE A3 exam next month. The strong points of the book are:Read more

Subjects:  1. Automobile mechanics    2. Automobiles    3. Automotive    4. Automotive - General    5. Automotive - Repair & Maintenance    6. Certification    7. Examinations    8. Examinations, questions, etc    9. Maintenance and repair    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Study Guides    12. Technical & Manufacturing Trades    13. Technology    14. Engineering skills & trades    15. Motor cars: general interest    16. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades