David Champion
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backing both buying deals develop easier expertise ford good money owning parts power purchase
With the backing of Ford, and the money and engineering expertise (Ford provides), they also get the buying power to purchase parts from suppliers that Ford already has deals with; and all of that makes it a lot easier to develop a good car. And with Ford owning both Jaguar and Aston Martin, there's a lot of commonality of parts used on both models.
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You don't really need to forego practicality to have sports car performance.
brings car control
If the car skids out of control it brings the car back into line.
far gallon goes oil
It goes as far on a gallon of french-fry oil as it does on a gallon of diesel. But, of course, the french-fry oil is a lot cheaper.
achieved economies epa fuel good ten tested vehicles
Just one in ten of the vehicles we tested achieved fuel economies as good as or better than EPA estimates.
time
I think it's desperately time for a change.
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I don't think people get the full perspective of how in-depth we go into cars from the small amount of press that we get. We try to allay some of the fears that people have. Our No. 1 customer is the consumer. We try to get them the best information we can get so they can make the best decision on what they're buying.
danger parents potential power realize
I don't think parents really realize the potential danger of power windows.
depends drive people run
It all depends on how you drive the vehicle. We run them the way people really drive in the city.
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I think they've lost their competitive edge in terms of reliability. In the past we would put them maybe not quite as good as Toyota and Honda, but pretty close.
edge lost terms
I think they've lost their competitive edge in terms of reliability.
cars developed driven reflective test
The E.P.A. test was developed in the 1970's and is not reflective of the way cars are driven today.
car causing electrical electronic features leveling rest tend though
The electrical and electronic features tend to be problematic, so they could be causing a leveling off of reliability even though the rest of the car is getting more reliable.
based best companies electrical putting start systems
All the big electronics companies are based in Japan. So when you start putting a lot of electronics and electrical systems in, I think they probably have the best infrastructure to make the sub-assemblies.