Regardless of whether you want a good small car, a good small car that's reliable or a good small car that's a Toyota, the Yaris 5-door isn't the answer.
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Demand for SUVs in India is growing faster than some small car segments, prompting even the likes of Maruti that dominates the small-car space to look at launching SUVs and crossovers.
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Best luxury small car for the money: 2017 Audi A4
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"Think of his suit like a small car," Dennin said.
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It also produces the Fiesta small car at the plant.
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Parking for one small car is in the attached garage.
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The plan to expand small car production in Mexico hasn't changed.
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I own one small car that serves a family of four.
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It's a small car from a non-premium brand, for starters.
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They crushed the leading small car, the Ford Fiesta (43.2 percent).
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Toyota said it had no plans to scale back small car sales.
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Tall people looking for a small car will appreciate the lofty headroom.
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"Our first electric will not be a super-rational small car," Farley said.
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It's the size of a small car, with a table-sized focal plane.
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We then shoved these balloons into my friends small car and drove away.
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But it can also handle like a small car when it needs to.
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Newborn blue whales weigh 13 kg — practically the weight of a small car.
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Now Ford has announced it is moving all small car production to Mexico.
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Redesigned for 2017, the Audi A4 is a top-ranked luxury small car.
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There isn't a small car on the market with this much space inside.
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The woman first checked in to a hospital following a small car accident.
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By early 1990's, economic reforms opened India's doors to many small car manufacturers.
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When it's in road-going mode, it's around the size of a small car.
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The 500 BEV will compete in the upmarket small car segment with BMW's Mini.
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While automakers are adding U.S. jobs they are also cutting U.S. small car production.
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He borrowed money from relatives and friends to buy and modify a small car.
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An investigation found that the door descended with the weight of a small car.
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Trump again bashed Ford's recent decision to move its small-car production to Mexico.
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FCA will launch its first full-electric model - the 500 small car - this year.
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U.S. small car sales have been hurt by lagging consumer demand and low gas prices.
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Last fall, Ford announced it was moving all small-car production south of the border.
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It has responsive ride and handling, even for a small car on bumpy city streets.
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Premium small car maker Mini acknowledges these are tough times for tiny cars in America.
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In Brazil in 2013, his small car was swamped after the driver took a wrong turn.
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The footprint of our prototype that we demonstrated is about the same as a small car.
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It will still build its new small car in Mexico—at an existing plant (see article).
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Like I said, if there is a beautiful small car, why aren't all small cars beautiful?
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He founded his firm, Anbang, as a small car-insurance company just over a decade ago.
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The small car was already being promoted in an advertising campaign starring Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi.
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Ziro's default kit comes with four wireless motors and enough pieces to build a small car.
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He recalled a very tall shopper who traded in his small car soon after purchasing it.
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It pledged earlier this year it would invest $2628 billion in small-car production in Mexico.
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Is there not something almost poetic about a domesticated mammal the size of a small car?
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His father, Leone, owned a small car rental company and died when the children were young.
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Clicking the small car icon at the bottom of the screen lets you request a driver.
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GM had already purchased a number of relatively small car makers, including Buick, Oldsmobile, and Oakland.
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The Broncos were involved in a small car accident on the way back from practice Monday.
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The Mars 2020 rover is about the size of a small car and weighs 2,300 pounds.
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These crocodiles can grow up to 18 feet long and weigh as much as a small car.
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The U.S. No. 2 automaker is planning to move some small-car production south of the border.
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But the Detroit maker actually did not reverse its plan to move small car production to Mexico.
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"It's such a small car compared to what we have now," he said of his impressions now.
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The Mazda 3 is brilliant and I recommend it to almost anyone who needs a small car.
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The average weight of a small car, such as a Nissan Micra, is more than double this.
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Her husband owns a small car-restoration business, which she says they've put most their savings into.
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It was a small car—no room for more than just the nurse, driver, me, and one patient.
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Simply put, though Nissan surely feels burned by Mitsubishi's fuel economy faking, it needs Mitsubishi's small-car prowess.
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Fiat Chrysler is shuttering small-car production, which in the current climate is only profitable if done abroad.
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The automaker also plans to develop its first all-electric vehicle and adopt a global small-car strategy.
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"I think this is an opportunity for Mini to be bullish on the small-car segment," McKenna said.
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The leftover money was rationed out to buy a small car and for a deposit on an apartment.
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The photo shows a small car icon that they say allows users to switch to the new features.
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I take advantage of the affordability of a small car and the utility of a larger cargo space.
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Ford has countered that moving small-car assembly to Mexican plants would have no impact on American jobs.
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The remotely operated vehicle, about the size of a small car, carried a payload of clear plastic tubes.
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But as Fiat Chrysler and others retreat, Mini sees opportunity to steal customers in the small-car market.
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The Lordstown plant was idled because it was making a small car that few consumers wanted to buy.
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The announcement comes as sales of Ford's Focus small car currently built at the plant have slowed down.
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If you live in the city, and don't have four soccer-playing teens, you probably drive a small car.
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It makes the F-4000 and F-23 trucks, as well as the Fiesta small car, a sales laggard.
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Initially, the focus was on Ford which, last April, said it would move its small car production to Mexico.
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Gulaban's husband, Harjilal, recalled how people in Thar would taunt him when his "illiterate" wife drove their small car.
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In March two students died when their small car was rear-ended by a Mercedes travelling at top speed.
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"His trade policies could add $5,000 or more to the price of a small car from Mexico," he said.
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In June, Mr. Hackett announced that Ford would import a new version of its Focus small car from China.
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After launch, the small-car sized craft will perform several flybys of Venus before vaulting itself toward the sun.
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Tall, stout legs ending in rhino feet carried a body weight potentially equal to that of a small car.
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Everything smacks of the nineteen-seventies, from the photocopier the size of a small car to the actual small car, a mint-green Fiat, in which Bradlee, just to be different, zips around D.C. Nostalgists for vanished technologies, meanwhile, will moan with delight at the recurring images of type being set by hand.
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TESS, which is about the size of a small car, will launch on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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The president-elect had previously blasted Ford Motor as well for its plans to move small car production to Mexico.
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"Mini as a car brand has been labeled a chick car, a cute car, a small car," Mr. Noble said.
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Unfortunately Spectacles themselves are impossible to get and currently retailing on secondary markets for the price of a small car.
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According to the official filing, each satellite will weigh around 850 pounds and be the size of a small car.
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According to the National Weather Service, it takes a mere 12 inches of water to sweep away a small car.
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Earlier this year, Ford said it will invest $1.6 billion in Mexico for small-car production to start in 2018.
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Designed by an international team, the small car has been received favourable reviews for its contemporary look and latest features.
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While campaigning in 2016, Trump repeatedly bashed Ford for its plan to open a small car assembly plant in Mexico.
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Well, it's relaxing until you lose count of the rows and realize that the blanket would cover a small car.
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The Parker Solar Probe is quite small, about the size of a small car, and it weighs about 1,500 pounds.
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FORD CEO MARK FIELDS SAYS DECISION TO CANCEL PLANNED MEXICO PLANT IS PRIMARILY DUE TO LACK OF SMALL CAR DEMAND
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In an interview with Würzburg's Main-Post, Kaiser claims the project cost him about as much as a small car.
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While campaigning last year, he criticized the company repeatedly for its plan to build a small-car plant in Mexico.
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Local television images showed firefighters pouring water on the burned-out hulk of a tanker truck, a small car wedged underneath.
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Trump has also previously called Ford "horrible" for its plans to move all small car production to Mexico within three years.
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A better course: Shoot for a starter emergency fund of $500, which would cover small car repairs or an insurance deductible.
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The PodRide has the same seating position and height as a small car, so drivers can be easily spotted in traffic.
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"The small car with the small engine can, in many ways, outrun the large car with the small engine," Harper says.
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Affiliate Hyundai Motor also plans to build its Accent small car at Kia's Mexico factory next year, sources earlier told Reuters.
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G.M. announced a year ago that it planned to close the plant, which was making a small car, the Chevrolet Cruze.
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The company also added a small car, the Mirage, that could travel 40 miles or more on a gallon of gas.
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It recently canceled plans to build a new small-car plant in Mexico, in part because of declining demand for cars.
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The seven squeezed into the small car and ended up at the soccer fields opposite the Central Islip Recreation Village complex.
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To trim capacity, it has closed a small-car plant in Lordstown, Ohio, and components plants in Baltimore and Warren, Mich.
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According to VW, that should make its price similar to a gasoline-powered small car when government incentives are factored in.
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The craft is slightly bigger than a small car and boasts 16 individual electric engines and rotors for zero-emissions air travel.
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They grow more 20 feet long, weigh over 1000 pounds, and bite with a force exceeding the weight of a small car.
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"It's like you have a Ferrari and you run a small car," says Massimiliano Salaorno, plant manager of Solar Capital De Aar.
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Hourly rates start at as little as $6 for a small car or $12 for a large one, according to website MavenDrive.com.
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Earlier this year, Ford said it will invest a further $1.6 billion in Mexico for small-car production to start in 2018.
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In September, Ford confirmed that all of the company's small-car production will leave U.S. plants and head to lower-cost Mexico.
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Last September, for example, Trump hit Ford for shifting all of its North American small-car production from the U.S. to Mexico.
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When Ford announced plans to shift small-car production to Mexico, Trump had also vowed to pressure the automaker to reverse course.
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If you're in the market for a small car, the Bolt is worth a look alongside other cars in its price range.
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But the alliance unraveled acrimoniously less than two years later when Volkswagen passed over Suzuki to buy small-car engines from Fiat.
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For example, Maven members can rent a small car such as the Chevy Spark for $6 an hour or $42 a day.
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GM's decision to close the small-car assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, had become fodder for Trump and several Democratic presidential candidates.
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The Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft the size of a small car, launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida about 3:30 a.m.
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A year ago, Ford Motor announced it would build a new small-car plant in Mexico, then canceled the plan in January.
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American manufacturers are moving small-car production to Mexico to take advantage of lower labor costs and because of declining domestic demand.
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Firefighters from Burbank posted a clip to Instagram showing the unlikely sight of a small car skidding down a torrent of gloopy muck.
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The probe belongs to NASA's InSight lander, a robot the size of a small car that landed on Mars in November of 2018.
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Joy's truck was so high off the ground, she recalls, she had to use a small car as step-up to get in.
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" During a campaign visit to Michigan in September, Trump slammed Ford's decision to move all small-car production to Mexico, calling it "horrible.
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Earlier this month, Ford canceled plans to build a small-car factory south of the border, while announcing 700 new jobs in Michigan.
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U.S. small-car sales fell 22022% in 2016 to 2.9 million units, as vehicles such as the Ford Fiesta and Chevrolet Sonic suffered.
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It's a small car with only two seats and two doors, but the butterfly-wing doors are a showstopper despite the mini size.
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The difference is maybe $5 per fill-up for someone driving a small car, and $35 or more for an RV, he said.
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A decade ago, when the average gallon of gas cost more than $4.00, there was a rapid run up in small car sales.
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The difference is maybe $5 per fill-up for someone driving a small car, and $35 or more for an RV, DeHaan said.
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All year, Mr. Trump has attacked Ford Motor Company in particular for planning to move all of its small car production to Mexico.
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A relatively unknown company, Nanjing Legend Biotech, also surprised ASCO participants with a small CAR-T trial in patients with advanced multiple myeloma.
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President Trump on Sunday suggested Ford Motor could begin making a small car in the United States instead of importing it from China.
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Production is expected to start this year, and the small car is key to Tesla's stated goal of producing 95.73,000 vehicles in 2018.
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Hyundai Motor India will recall its small car, called Eon, manufactured in January 2015, and replace the battery cable if damaged, the company said.
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FCA does sell a lot of small cars globally, but in the current climate, truck and SUV margins industry-wide dwarf small-car margins.
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My ex-husband was on his 3rd affair and my kids and I had nothing except what I could pack in a small car.
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Last week, Iglesias shared another hilarious video of his twins, this time of them pushing him as he rolled along in a small car.
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Ford is moving all of its small car production to Mexico within the next two years, as much of the auto industry has done.
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Bream's small car garage is located behind a string of commercial warehouses in San Marcos, California, a sleepy suburb not far from San Diego.
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Still, small car sales have plummeted as low oil prices translated into gasoline nearing $2 per gallon in 2016, making bigger vehicles more enticing.
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The Parker Solar Probe, a robotic spacecraft the size of a small car, is slated to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, with Aug.
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He tied Daphne, who's about the size of a small car, to his tiny motorboat and towed her along for a day of fishing.
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Not a small car, the Prius has a back seat that is fairly roomy, although very tall friends will want to ride up front.
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"They see the small-car market as having a lot of potential," said Cui Dongshu, the secretary general of the China Passenger Car Association.
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The Focus has been bounced around over the last few months as Ford tried to squeeze some profits from the ailing small car segment.
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In September, Ford said its small-car production would be leaving U.S. plants and heading to lower-cost Mexico, drawing another rebuke from Trump.
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Do I want to be in a walk-in closet with my dog at home or out on the road in a small car?
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The original 2500 small car, launched in the late 280s and known affectionately as the "Cinquecento", quickly become a symbol of Italian urban design.
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On average, larvaceans longer than half an inch filtered 11 gallons (about the fuel tank capacity of a small car) of water an hour.
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But if anything seems shortsighted about the sale, it is the self-inflicted loss of passenger- and small-car engineering smarts that Opel represents.
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Production is expected to start this year on the small car, which is crucial to the company's goal of producing 500,000 vehicles in 2018.
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On Tuesday, Ford announced that it was canceling its planned investment to build a small-car plant in the state of San Luis Potosí.
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The negotiations with G.M. were more contentious because it had announced it would close three plants, including a small-car factory in Lordstown, Ohio.
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Up to two cars and a golf cart or additional small car can be parked in the elegantly paved area next to the piazza.
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This unit is so, so much more effective than the small car plug-in aromatherapy devices I've had in the past...those are totally worthless.
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InSight is a lander in the style of Phoenix, about the size of a small car, and shot towards Mars faster than a speeding bullet.
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For consumers, Mr Trump's trade policies could inflate the price of a typical small car by between $1,408 and $2,057, according to the Peterson Institute.
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Discussion about the small-car production shift from Mexico to China began "a couple months ago" under Fields, said Joe Hinrichs, president of global operations.
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"There's plenty of room for both" cars and SUVs in Europe's small-car market, said Denis Schemoul, an auto production analyst with forecaster IHS Markit.
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In the U.S. where the small car is a niche product, the deficits are even larger with a 7.3% year-over-year drop in sales.
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Trump bashed Ford over the automaker's plan to invest $1.6 billion in Mexico by shifting its North American small-car production south of the border.
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The reports to the police had one thing in common with the circus act involving an improbable number of clowns emerging from a small car.
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Ford said overall it will save $23 million by consolidating small car production planned for the new assembly factory at an existing plant in Mexico.
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The suburban Detroit factory that builds the current Ford Focus small car will be converted to assemble pickup trucks and a new Bronco sport utility.
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Last August, while on a road trip with a friend in upstate New York, the Italian photographer Lucia Buricelli stumbled on a small car show.
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He found work as a manager at Best for Less Auto Sales, a small car dealership on a quiet, tree-lined street near downtown Modesto.
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Now Ford, the nation's second-largest automaker, after General Motors, is centralizing much of its small-car production in China, where it has available capacity.
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Despite its large wingspan, the drone itself only weighs about the mass of a small car tire, according to Yael Maguire, who runs Facebook's Connectivity Lab.
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But Mercedes is trying to cover as many bases as it can in the small-car segment, eventually planning to have seven different models available globally.
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In exchange for higher wages, G.M. was cleared to close a small-car plant in Lordstown, Ohio, and transmission plants in Baltimore, Md., and Warren, Mich.
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"The small car market is shrinking and the people that are buying small cars are people with constrained budgets," said Michelle Krebs, an analyst at Autotrader.
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Accent production in South Korea, where small car demand has been sluggish, would fall by roughly half, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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Affiliate Hyundai Motors also plans to build its Accent small car at the Kia factory next year, two people familiar with the matter previously told Reuters.
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The small car is designed for short city drives, according to the copmany, and is meant to offer a new zero-emissions option for urban dwellers.
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"I was trying to buy some basic small car parts to do a repair," Noah Sunflower, a Prime subscriber in Anchorage, Alaska, told me via email.
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Stereotypical small car-dealers, with their oily manner and shouty television advertisements, are being displaced by big chains, such as CarMax, with transparent prices and standards.
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"In order to fight in the small car market we need more support from Daihatsu... Toyota by ourselves cannot develop it (small cars)," Tanada told Reuters.
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Ford in June said it would shift some production of its Focus small car from Mexico to China and import the vehicles to the United States.
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The automaker might build more models in the future based on the platform of its new electric 500 small car, a senior executive said on Wednesday.
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"We are going west because people were hit on the east side of town," said Ayse Kaya as she piled her family into a small car.
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He is cooperating with investigators and turned over evidence including documents, two iPhones and a small car packed with diamonds, pearls, furs, suits and blackmail materials.
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The Supermaché does everything a small car does except pollute and get stuck in traffic and, for me, that makes it the best choice for families.
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In Opel therefore one finds what is arguably G.M.'s finest assemblage of experience, knowledge and smarts in the world of passenger and small car design.
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The aim would be to fuse the small car categories that PSA and GM failed to combine under a looser 21 alliance that missed key targets.
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Investors will be watching for news about the coming Model 3, a small car crucial to the company's goal of producing 22,000 electric vehicles next year.
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During the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Trump slammed what he called Ford's "horrible" plans to move all small car production to Mexico within three years.
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The Guanajuato plant will build Corollas and have an annual capacity of 0003,2000 when it comes online in 21, shifting production of the small car from Canada.
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Renault, General Motors and VW are preparing to enlarge or scrap some of their best-selling small car engines over the next three years, the people said.
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GM's decision to close the small-car Ohio assembly plant in a key state in the 2020 election had already become fodder for several Democratic presidential candidates.
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But analysts generally say that each small car generates less than $2,000 in profit for an automaker, compared with as much as $10,000 for option-laden S.U.V.s.
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Looking around in resignation, I saw a small car full of young guys heading in the opposite direction, just a few meters in front me of me.
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And he thanked Ford Motor on Twitter this week for abandoning plans to build a small-car assembly plant in Mexico that Mr. Trump had repeatedly criticized.
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Mr. Trump's episodic campaign to expand domestic manufacturing nevertheless scored again when Ford said it would scrap plans to build a small-car assembly plant in Mexico.
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The Guanajuato plant will build Corollas and have an annual capacity of 200,000 when it comes online in 72593, shifting production of the small car from Canada.
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When I get to the meeting spot there's no one around except one guy and a small car where I expected a minibus typical of small-group tours.
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It's an incredible move, and usually, when you have a laptop with this much power inside, you expect it to weigh about the same as a small car.
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South America, meanwhile, should morph into being a US/China-style SUV realm, except that it's still stuck in the el-cheapo small-car stage of its development.
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Daimler AG rose almost 2 percent as it neared the sale of a 50 percent stake in its small-car brand Smart to China's Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
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But the industry has entered a downturn and the European small car market in particular - where both PSA and Fiat Chrysler (FCA) are heavily exposed - is under pressure.
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But Ford still plans to build one of its top-selling cars, the Fusion sedan, in Mexico, as well as the future generation of its Focus small car.
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Hermes, whose Birkin handbags are worth more than a small car, said sales rose 7.2 percent to 1.46 billion euros ($1.70 billion) for the three months through June.
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Ford said Tuesday it plans to move production of its Ford Focus small car from the U.S. to China, where it already makes the Focus for Chinese buyers.
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The automaker also builds the Chevrolet Sonic small car at the Orion plant, and sales of that car are down nearly 2000 percent for the year to date.
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Standing next to his charge, Mwenda was dwarfed by Sudan's head alone, and within dangerously easy striking distance of his horn, a weapon capable of impaling a small car.
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Ford's small-car production will be relocated from U.S. manufacturing plants to Mexico over the next two to three years, Fields said at the automaker's investor conference on Wednesday.
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In the Shihan neighborhood, devastated by years of urban combat, we met 9-year-old Abdul Majid and two of his friends, hauling tree branches on a small car.
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Fiat Chrysler strategists, led by the automaker's founding CEO Sergio Marchionne, saw the strong, initial demand for another European small car brand, Mini, and hoped to repeat its success.
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One is a plant in Hermosillo that makes the Ford Fusion and the Lincoln MKZ sedans, and the other is in Cuautitlan that makes the Ford Fiesta small car.
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The Civic has been named our small-car best-buy every year since the award's inception and has also been lauded for strong five-year cost-to-own numbers.
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Small sedans have seen a plunge in popularity in the US of late because buyers can now get small-car MPGs in a new generation of fuel-efficient crossovers.
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Mr. Burns has said he needs to raise about $300 million to acquire and restart the plant, which G.M. had used to produce a small car, the Chevrolet Cruze.
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The most impressive piece of the night, though, a cap-sleeved gown the width of a small car, was designed in the designer's signature color: an iridescent Kermit-green.
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About 25 years ago, when we first considered getting into the electric vehicle business with a small car that had about 70 miles of range, the answer was no.
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A swift convergence of small car design and production may deepen concern over possible job losses, especially in Germany - home to about half the 38,000-strong GM Europe workforce.
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In June, Ford Motor Co said it would move some production of its Focus small car to China from Mexico and import the vehicles to the United States by 2019.
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The new contract with the United Auto Workers union allows the company to close a small-car plant in Lordstown, Ohio, and transmission factories in Baltimore, Md., and Warren, Mich.
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Ford has said that the company is moving small-car production from Michigan to a new plant in Mexico, but will continue making a different model at the Michigan plant.
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According to MarketWatch, the sum would have would have amounted to a paltry $24 for most drivers—roughly how much it costs to fill up a small car in Boston.
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It will be made at a Kia factory near Seoul after some production of the lower-margin Rio small car is shifted to Mexico early next year, the sources said.
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Daimler AG's rose 1 percent after it said it was nearing the sale of a 50 percent stake in its small-car brand Smart to China's Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
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Daimler AG's rose 1.3 percent after it said it was nearing the sale of a 50 percent stake in its small-car brand Smart to China's Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
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"You can hear the amount of air going in and out," Boehme said of the animal, which is the length of a small car and has a distinctively sour musk.
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Their wooden boats and old-fashioned fishing traps - which can be as big as a small car - are an anomaly amidst the speed-boats carrying tourists for snorkelling and parasailing.
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When the volunteers hear this, they help us load our small car with as many tents as we can fit and we are soon on our way back to Dunkirk.
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Detroit-based Ford has ditched plans to build a new Mexican facility, but is still moving production of its Focus small car from Michigan to its existing factory in Mexico.
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"It was just announced that Ford is moving all small car production — all of it — 100 percent to Mexico over the next two to three years," Trump said in September.
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Sales of Tata's Nano small car, pitched as India's cheapest car at its 2008 launch, have been falling for years despite several tweaks to the car and its brand position.
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We started in the breeding area, a series of long metal warehouses filled with tiny newborn piglets and pregnant sows big enough to knock a small car off the road.
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Ford last summer announced that it will move production of the Focus small car from a Detroit-area plant, and union sources said it was moving to lower-cost Mexico.
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Ford announced last month that all of the company's small-car production would be leaving U.S. plants and heading to lower-cost Mexico, drawing another rebuke from the White House hopeful.
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Those moves could add $123,000 or more to the price of a small car from Mexico said Charles Chesbrough, senior economist at the Detroit-based Original Equipment Suppliers Association trade group.
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Fields said with U.S. gasoline prices so low, "it's very difficult for us to be able to make money on a vehicle produced in the U.S." in the small car segment.
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This is the sixth model in Waymo's lineup, including a small car, an SUV, a firefly prototype, a minivan (the Pacifica we're all familiar with) and a semi-truck for operations.
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Pairings like John Cena and Shaq (it's funny because they're both very large people in a small car) and Metallica and Billy Eichner (funny alternative comedy guy and aging metal band).
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Storied U.S. car maker Ford said this month that the company's small-car production would move to Mexico over the next two to three years, citing the need to be competitive.
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The maker of Birkin handbags, which are worth more than a small car, said sales revenue rose 7.2 percent to 1.46 billion euros ($1.70 billion) for the three months through June.
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German car parts supplier ZF recently showed off a solution that it's marketing to automakers—a rear-wheel steering system that makes even the biggest pickup corner like a small car.
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When we heard the sound of the small car approaching—they didn't have a pickup or a 4x4—we ran out of the house to see what they had returned with.
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Born into a working-class family, Mr. Davydov was running a small car rental business and leading an unexceptional life before he decided to expose the corruption in Russia's judicial system.
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Ford's race to the bottom is consistent with G.M.'s recent decision to sell its German Opel division, virtually quitting Europe and, with it, its most advanced small-car development operation.
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GET A SMALL CAR, SORKIN: DOES IT MAKE SENSE FOR COMPANIES LIKE MICROSOFT TO ANNOUNCE THEIR OWN PLANS AND TRY TO BE CARBON NEGATIVE OR TRY TO RUN EXPENSING AROUND CARBON?
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Some analysts have suggested that Mr. Fields should be bolder in remaking the company by reducing its car lineup further — and possibly getting out of the unprofitable small-car business entirely.
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MILAN, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Small car platforms developed by France's Peugeot should be favoured if plans to merge PSA and FiatChrysler go ahead, PSA executive Gaetano Thorel told Reuters on Wednesday.
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I rented a small car from Alamo at Denver Airport — Alamo has always been the cheapest car rental option for me — and it cost me about $350 for 10 or so days.
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Trump has previously slammed the company for plans to move all small-car production to Mexico, and claimed that he helped stop Ford from shifting an entire factory from Kentucky to Mexico.
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The Norwegian arm of the German automaker cut a small car in half and constructed a plexiglass trailer around it, letting the driver see out but preventing anyone else from seeing in.
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Although GM recently scaled back India's involvement in its multibillion-dollar GEM small-car program, the automaker said it would launch five new models in that country in the next 24 months.
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Maruti dominates the small car market in India and has been launching more premium vehicles as competition heats up with newer and planned entrants such as Kia Motors and SAIC Motor Corp.
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In his leadoff answer, Mr. Trump warned that Ford was planning to slash thousands of American jobs to relocate small-car production to Mexico – a claim the company's chief executive has denied.
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Ford Motor Co signaled its long-term pessimism about small-car demand in the United States by announcing plans on Tuesday to shift production of its Focus compact car model to China.
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The A43 is the Best Luxury Small Car for the Money because it'll get your heart racing when you drive it, not when you look at how much you spend on it.
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The Italian-American carmaker is looking to make up ground in the battery-powered vehicle space and is set to launch its first full-electric model — the 500 small car — this year.
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Investors will be watching for news from its chief executive, Elon Musk, about the forthcoming Model 3, a small car crucial to the company's goal of producing 500,000 electric vehicles in 2018.
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The power of the door's drive system was comparable to the weight of a small car, according to Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE), a state agency which enforces workplace safety regulations.
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The team delivered as spacious an interior as possible, with upright glass to make the relatively small car feel more substantial and a raised driving position for a commanding view of the road.
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Besides Douai, they included a van plant in Sandouville, France; a small-car plant in Slovenia; the no-frills Dacia plant in Pitesti, Romania; and a factory shared with Nissan in Chennai, India.
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Also, Ford Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields said all of the company's small-car production will be leaving U.S. plants and heading to lower-cost Mexico over the next two to three years.
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GM's move comes just two months after Ford announced it's moving its small car production to Mexico, while re-tooling some U.S. assembly lines to build the bigger, more profitable, SUVs and crossovers.
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In September, Ford confirmed that all of the company's small-car production will leave U.S. plants and head to lower-cost Mexico by 2019, but no plants would be closed as a result.
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I think we were going through Field, BC. This guy in a small car went by, didn't stop, and then I'm pretty sure did a U-turn, which was the first red flag.
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GM plans to halt production next year at three assembly plants: the Lordstown small-car factory near Youngstown, Ohio; the Detroit-Hamtramck complex in Detroit; and the Oshawa, Ontario, assembly complex near Toronto.
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The technologies include those Geely has used to engineer midsize vehicles such as its GC9 sedan and Boyue sport-utility vehicle, as well as small car technologies developed with Volvo, the people said.
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"Over the next two to three years, we will have migrated all of our small-car production to Mexico and out of the United States," Fields said, according to The Detroit Free Press.
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His shedding of the trappings of the papacy and adoption of relative austerity — extending to the use of a very small car as his designated "popemobile" — buttress the assertion of the movie's title.
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Ford officials said that the revised plans were tied to market conditions that have depressed small-car sales, and that they did not consult with the incoming Trump administration before making the decision.
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Uber has grown from a small car-hailing app into an international phenomenon, but a new book about it and Airbnb — "The Upstarts" by Brad Stone — argues that Uber's future is uniquely imperiled.
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Ford Motor Co. is going ahead with plans to move small-car production from the U.S. to Mexico despite President-elect Donald Trump's recent threats to impose tariffs on companies that move work abroad.
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Trump has previously called Ford "horrible" for its plans to move all small-car production to Mexico within three years, and has threatened to impose a border tax on automakers which move production abroad.
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Trump has previously called Ford "horrible" for its plans to move all small-car production to Mexico within three years, and has threatened to impose a border tax on automakers who move production abroad.
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On Tuesday, Ford announced it had scrapped plans to build a new $1.6 billion small-car factory in San Luis Potosi, Mexico — but insisted that Trump was not the main factor for its decision.
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As it turns out, Chandrayaan-1 — which is only the size of a small car — was on orbit as expected, but on the exact opposite side of the moon they thought it would be.
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While that means share prices of refiners with little or no crude production are outperforming primarily crude producers, much could hinge on China's economy and Beijing's policy of tax breaks for small car buyers.
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China is gradually following that trend, in a market that at around 20 million is annual sales is larger than the US. Europe is still a small-car world, but it always has been.
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Musk suggested in a Twitter exchange with outgoing Ohio Governor John Kasich that he would consider acquiring GM's Lordstown small-car factory in Warren, Ohio, which GM has signaled it could close next year.
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A decent amount of that poll was conducted before Clinton's medical scare at the Manhattan 9/11 ceremony and the Ford announcement that it is moving its small car production from Michigan to Mexico.
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Ford's fourth-quarter results took a $200-million hit from costs related to canceling a $22016-billion small car plant in Mexico that had become a target for Trump during his campaign last year.
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In a stunning reversal, Ford Motor, the nation's second-largest automaker, said on Tuesday that it would scrap plans to build a small-car assembly plant in Mexico that Mr. Trump has repeatedly criticized.
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Renault has already begun assembling its no-frills Sandero compact in Iran, in addition to the original Logan saloon, and aims to introduce more models such as its Clio small car and Captur mini-SUV.
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Earlier this month, Ford also announced temporary plant shutdowns in Kentucky and in Mexico to manage inventory of its Escape SUV and Lincoln MKC SUVs, Fusion and Lincoln MKZ sedans, and the Fiesta small car.
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Maruti dominates the small car market in India and has been expanding its net by launching more premium vehicles to compete better with newer and planned entrants such as Kia Motors and SAIC Motor Corp.
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The world's biggest automaker said it aims to also boost production at the group, which includes small-car maker Daihatsu Motor and truck maker Hino Motors, by 1 percent to 10.366 million vehicles in 2017.
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A small car, called the GA4, and a concept for an all-electric S.U.V. called the Enverge that Mr. Jun said has a 370-mile range, do not figure in the company's United States plans.
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Mr. Marchionne spent heavily to develop a car, the Chrysler 200, that could compete with popular models like the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord, and a small car, the Dodge Dart, for the American market.
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MILAN, March 4 (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler might build more models in the future based on the platform of its new electric 500 small car, a senior executive from the Italian American automaker said on Wednesday.
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"We have looked at how we can be more successful in the small-car segment and deliver even more choices for consumers in a way that makes business sense," Mr. Hinrichs said in a statement.
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But fuel is still so heavily subsidized that filling a small car will still not cost more than half the price of a soft drink, or around 20 cents based on the black market exchange rate.
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The charge stems from the loss of value of development work on components for a small car and a range of upscale models that the company had to scrap while refocusing its spending on electric vehicles.
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Ellis told CNN Business that 99% of Relativity's resources are focused on preparing for the debut launch of Terran 1, a $13 million rocket designed to haul payloads as large as a small car into space.
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Fiat Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said on Wednesday the company would stop making two sedans, the compact Dodge Dart and midsize Chrysler 200, and said he was looking for partners to share small car production.
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The new Mini Cooper SE is the brand's first purely electric small car, with a range of between 21853370 and 18533683 kilometres (21853368 to 21853367 miles) and a fast-charging possible at up to 22020 kW.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump demanded General Motors Co add a new product to replace a plant in Ohio that the company said it planned to close next year due to lagging small-car demand.
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At one side, the photographer Glen Luchford worked a Polaroid camera the size of a small car that churns out 20-inch-by-24-inch instant photos on ancient, rapidly expiring, no-longer-in-production film.
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DETROIT — In a move that highlights the shifting landscape of global auto production, Ford Motor said Tuesday that it would build its next-generation small car in China rather than in the United States or Mexico.
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The competing PSA and Opel small car and SUV line-ups are currently spread among no fewer than five European plants: Opel Eisenach, Germany, and Zaragoza, Spain; and PSA Poissy and Mulhouse, France, and Trnava, Slovakia.
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When Fiat and Chrysler merged to create Fiat Chrysler, it looked as though the company would use Fiat's small-car know-how to create a leaner, more efficient lineup better suited for the post-recession era.
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The decision to scrap the new plant looks far more like Ford reducing its exposure to the small-car game in North America than reducing its footprint in Mexico, says George Galliers at Evercore, an investment bank.
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But he made clear he was not enthused about Ford Motor Co's announcement earlier this week that it will move some production of its Focus small car to China and import the vehicles to the United States.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said last week it would phase out production of its Dodge Dart small car and mid-sized Chrysler 200 sedan, and seek partners to produce replacements, because profits for the smaller cars had evaporated.
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Chinese newspaper Sin Chew Daily said the government is mulling an exemption for first-time car buyers from excise duties for local and imported small car models assembled in Malaysia, with projected savings of up to 2,000 ringgit.
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Even as Aston Martin gears up to double sales when it launches its crossover, and lends its name to real estate developments, yachts, and Red Bull Formula 1 racing, the plan is to stay a small car company.
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The big splash from bailout beneficiary Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is not a small car, but a sleeker, updated minivan, which comes in a plug-in hybrid version and a powerful gasoline model more people are likely to buy.
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It's curved, and includes 65-inch, 78-inch, and 88-inch models, with prices at $4,499, $9,999, and $19,999, in case you want a TV that costs as much as a small car or many people's annual rent.
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Ford – which has long faced criticism from Trump for its plan to move small-car production from Michigan to Mexico – said it would instead invest $700 million in a Michigan facility that will build electric vehicles, Forbes reported.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said last week it would phase out production of its Dodge Dart small car and its midsized Chrysler 200 sedan, and seek partners to produce replacements, because profits for the smaller cars had evaporated.
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Gilles Le Borgne, the PSA engineering chief, told Reuters the earlier small car plans had foundered because GM chose instead to develop the Corsa on its own architecture, pursuing economies of scale between its Opel and Chevrolet brands.
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Barra also said proposals from Ohio officials that GM sell its Lordstown, Ohio, small car factory to Tesla are "moot" because Tesla is "not interested in our GM workforce represented by the UAW," the United Auto Workers union.
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He said he had opposed some of the group's strategies, such as its re-entry into the aviation business through joint ventures in Vistara and AirAsia India, and took a particular swipe at Ratan Tata's Nano small car project.
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Early this month, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced the automaker was scrubbing the $1.6 billion plant, triggering self-congratulatory tweeting by Trump, even though Ford officials publicly noted they were still planning to move small car production to Mexico.
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Ford Motor Co Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields said on Wednesday that all of the company's small-car production would be leaving U.S. plants and heading to lower-cost Mexico, drawing another rebuke from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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Tata Motors, maker of the loss-making Nano small car, also said on Thursday it was restructuring its passenger vehicles business in India, which includes reducing the number of car platforms from six to two to improve production efficiencies.
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The price of premium gasoline will rise to 6 bolívars from 0.097 bolívars a liter, but fuel is so heavily subsidized that filling up a small car will still cost about 23 cents, based on the black market exchange rate.
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Hyundai joins a long line of companies trying to make super-strength suits a reality: Lockheed Martin made one in 2014, Panasonic recently made its own version and there are even some homemade versions that can jack up a small car.
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He quickly took aim at Ford for importing vehicles from Mexico, amping up his criticism last April when the nation's second-largest automaker revealed plans to move all of its small car production to a new factory south of the border.
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Through a Chinese joint venture company, SDS, GKN will start making an electric transmission for a domestic Chinese automaker in 2018 and then deliver an electric motor, inverter, axle and gearbox for a European firm's small car platform a year later.
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PSA has already helped Opel, bought from General Motors in 2017, to make progress with emissions targets by rolling out the group's small car platform and engines to the Opel factory in Zaragossa, Spain, where it builds the Opel Corsa.
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Baker said the plan to shift small car production to Mexico would not reduce the company's jobs in the United States, and that the Focus would be replaced by two product lines in Michigan that have yet to be announced.
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On Wednesday, DH reported that a mix-up by a Brussels taxi dispatcher meant a small car was sent to pick up the bombers instead of the minivan they had ordered and the passengers were forced to leave one bag behind.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - When Toyota Motor looked to the future at the turn of the millennium and aimed its new, edgy Scion small-car brand at twenty-somethings, it could not have guessed that the model would be dead after just 12 years.
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Fiat was able to take over Chrysler in large part on the promise of its small-car capabilities in 2009, a year after record high gasoline prices changed the U.S. market toward more fuel-efficient vehicles, a course that has since been reversed.
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That included getting GM to pay $2 billion to sever ties with Fiat, key to relaunching the long-struggling Italian carmaker, and the deal with the U.S. government to take Chrysler without a penny down in exchange for Fiat&aposs small-car technology.
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Ford announced on Tuesday it would move some production of its Focus small car to China instead of Mexico, a step that follows the U.S. automaker's January cancellation of a planned $1.8 billion plant in the central state of San Luis Potosi.
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The door closed with the weight of a small car Ford had thought the door was not live as he walked underneath it during a dress rehearsal, prosecutor Andrew Marshall told the court, as it had not been activated during earlier rehearsals.
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India is largely a small-car market and that is not a strength for most global automakers, who sell more SUVs and luxury cars elsewhere such as in China and the United States - the world's top two car markets, the executive added.
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It is building a $1.5 billion factory in the northern province of Hai Phong and plans to launch a sedan and sport-utility vehicle in the third quarter of 2019, and a small car, electric car and electric bus by end-2019.
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This also addresses some of the problems the gig work Flex drivers faced — gas prices would often cut far too much into profits; the lack of insurance; and the general challenges associated with trying to deliver packages from an unbranded, small car.
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The price of premium gasoline will rise by 1,329 percent, but fuel is so heavily subsidized that fueling a small car will still cost about half the price of a soft drink, or about $0.23 based on the black market exchange rate.
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In a high-stakes game of corporate poker, Mr. Marchionne compelled G.M. to pay Fiat $2 billion to end their alliance, and used the money to develop new models, including the Fiat 500, a small car that became a hit in Europe.
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Last year Daimler, BMW, Volkswagen and Ford also said they would together install a total of 400 public charging-points in Europe delivering 350KW, which will charge a small car to three-quarters full in four minutes and a big vehicle in 12 minutes.
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At the heart of Geely's ambition to break into European and U.S. markets is the China Euro Vehicle Technology (CEVT) development hub, created by Geely in 2013 in Sweden to build the platform which will be used in new Volvo and Geely small car models.
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Chief Operating Officer for the EMEA region Pietro Gorlier, speaking during an event at FCA's plant in Pomigliano d'Arco near Naples where it produces the hybrid version of the Panda small car, said that the automaker was closely monitoring the situation, local media reported.
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In January, after U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly criticized Ford for shipping small-car manufacturing to Mexico, Ford said it would kill plans to build a $1.8 billion Focus plant in San Luis Potosi and instead produce the new Focus at an existing plant in Hermosillo.
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"As labor costs in Mexico are just one fifth of that in Korea, Hyundai will be able to save a lot in small car production and better compete with rivals which have manufacturing presence in Mexico," said Ko Tae-bong, auto analyst at Hi Investment & Securities.
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Overall, the market share of cars in the so-called A and B small car segments is expected to shrink to 38% in Europe by 2021, down from 40% last year, whereas demand for sports utility vehicles is expected to hold up well, LMC's Sammy Chan said.
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Nearing the end of the third hour of our interview, he kept trying and failing to bring it to a close, spotting other things to talk about, ferrying me up and down in the building's creaky old freight elevator, big enough to fit a small car.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - General Motors Co built the final Chevrolet Cruze small car at its Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant on March 6, despite demands from President Donald Trump, Ohio political leaders and the United Auto Workers union not to close the plant and leave nearly 20063,500 workers laid off.
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GM has been under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump and lawmakers of both parties to add jobs in the United States after it said last November it would idle a small car assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, and had no new products for three other U.S. manufacturing plants.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Co is planning to build the new version of its Accent small car at a Mexican plant owned by sister company Kia Motors next year, two people familiar with the matter said, shifting some output of the low-margin vehicle out of high-cost South Korea.
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TOLEDO, Ohio, March 18 (Reuters) - General Motors Co built the final Chevrolet Cruze small car at its Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant on March 20063, despite demands from President Donald Trump, Ohio political leaders and the United Auto Workers union not to close the plant and leave nearly 1,500 workers laid off.
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About the size of a small car, the island — called the Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab — didn't sprout from geologic processes, but instead is the result of a five-year collaboration between architects from the California College of the Arts, digital fabrication manufacturers and marine ecologists from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.
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Last year, those two countries supplied about 20 percent of the 17.5 million vehicles sold in the U.S. Under pressure from the White House, Ford has scrapped plans to build a new small car assembly plant in Mexico, but BMW is not changing its expansion plans south of the border.
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Back in the land of the free and the home of hyperconscious parenting, Claudia Hunter Johnson, the author of HURTLING TOWARD HAPPINESS: A Mother and Teenage Son's Road Trip From Blues to Bonding in a Really Small Car (Arcade, $24.99), has piled into a rental car with her son, Ross.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT, March 27 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Wednesday: Daimler AG is nearing the sale of a 50 percent stake in its small-car brand Smart to China's Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd , the Financial Times said on Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the matter.
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"Arnnon helped transition Tesla from a small car company that many doubted would ever succeed, to an integrated sustainable energy company with more than 30,000 employees around the globe," Tesla said in a short blog post announcing his departure, adding that he would be taking a "short break" before moving on to an unspecified new project.
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It starts with people wearing clothing that displays a brand name conveying the fact that the item cost far more than equivalent items without that brand, while at the other end of the scale, it runs to oceangoing "yachts" that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and use more fuel in an hour than a small car would use in 10 years.
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Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday announced it is shifting all of its North American small-car production from the U.S. to Mexico, drawing fresh criticism in the process from Republican presidential nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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For those seeking more power, Cadillac also is offering two performance variants of the CT4 to better compete against German luxury brands Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz that dominate the luxury small car segments in the U.S. The base CT4-V performance variant, which Cadillac unveiled this summer in Detroit, is equipped with the same optional 2.7-liter turbo engine but it comes standard with an estimated 320 hp and 369 pound-feet of torque.
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GM responded to Trump's Twitter attack in a statement on Tuesday, saying it builds only the hatchback version of the Cruze "for global markets in Mexico, with a small number sold in the U.S." In a surprising turn of events, it was one of GM's chief rivals, Ford Motor Co., that appeared to heed Trump's warning on Tuesday, when the company suddenly announced it was halting plans to build a new small-car factory in Mexico.
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The obstacles facing GM in its plans to close more auto factories became apparent on Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block payment of government electric vehicle subsidies to GM. While it is not certain that Trump unilaterally has the power to do that, he made it clear he intends to use his office to pressure the company to keep open a small car plant in Ohio that GM says will stop building vehicles in March.
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