Sentences with phrase «dollar cars of»

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A better place to invest R&D dollars might be in turning crops, such as corn, wheat and soybeans, into headrests, door panels and other parts of cars.

A lower Canadian dollar has been something of a mixed bag for many industries, but the used - car export business is experiencing a real boom at the moment.

This dynamic tends to benefit consumers in Canada, Desrosiers says — by siphoning off the supply of cars when the dollar is low, it supports higher trade - in values.

For example, you could lease a photocopier for several hundred dollars a month rather than financing the entire $ 3,000 purchase price, or you could lease your automobile or van instead of shelling out $ 25,000 or more for the full purchase price of the car.

Uber, which is believed to be losing billions of dollars per year, is also facing a rocky path to profitability, particularly given recent stumbles in its self - driving car program.

«But I think customers are choosing to spend their disposable dollars in different ways, and that's part of the reason why we are not more optimistic about the lower gas prices,» she added, noting that consumers are spending more on cars, healthcare, electronics and home improvement, leaving little upside for Macy's.

Some successful entrepreneurs today travel around the world, hang out with celebrities, buy properties, swanky cars, sports teams, and whatever their hearts desire because they earn millions (or billions) of dollars a year.

They are in a high - cost period of life, with homes and cars and children and tuition and 100 different ways they need to stretch their dollars.

Today, the future for autonomous vehicles is bright, and it is expected that there will be millions of self - driving cars on the road by 2035, creating a multi-billion dollar market.

The connected car is now widely seen as an open platform on which you put many things and I want to take a lot of credit for the way this is being played out, with millions of dollars of investment dollars because of the work I have laid out.

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

Thinking of dining at an ethnic restaurant near a dollar store with an abandoned car out front?

This year's suite of recalled cars could pad dealers» collective income statements to the tune of billions of dollars in additional revenue.

And no, it's not practical to spend hundreds of dollars per day to drive a car.

The road cars define the critical fantasies that animate the brand, that evoke its deep history, and that provoke sane people to part with hundreds of thousands of dollars for the privilege of being what Ferrari calls a «client.»

Musk of course has spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money building electric car maker Tesla over the past decade.

This of course means that a modest blemish in the roadway can result in thousands of dollars in damage to the car.

«For every dollar we spend on the banana car, we probably get $ 10 to $ 20 in return,» he says, citing a survey of new customers who signed up as a direct result of seeing the vehicle, which runs about $ 600 per month in operating costs.

«Shoppers are spending more of their disposable dollars on categories we don't sell, like cars, healthcare, electronics, and home improvement,» Hoguet said in a call with investors.

With the Kite deal, Gilead is significantly expanding its footprint in a multi-billion dollar treatment space and will be one of the first entrants into the new CAR - T market if KTE - C19 wins approval in the fall.

I think old - school tactics like the Three Cs of sales, pushy car salesman stuff doesn't work any more, especially not if you're selling a lifestyle or a dream, or millions or billions of dollars of real estate.

States like Florida, which has favorable weather, and Michigan, home to the U.S. car industry, have also adopted a laissez faire approach the autonomous vehicle testing in hopes of attracting or retaining automaker and tech company dollars.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

Car makers have rushed to invest in so - called mobility services, hoping to capture the potential trillions of dollars in revenue from selling both vehicles and such on - demand services.

She didn't directly mention the string of executive departures, the layoffs, or the billions of dollars in losses that have plagued Alphabet's diverse «Other Bet» companies, whose projects are as varied as self - driving cars and high - speed internet service.

Over the life of a mortgage, home equity loan, car loan, or student loan, for example, this can cost you tens of thousands of dollars in interest fees.

They include access to billions of government procurement dollars at the provincial and even municipal level — something not found in NAFTA — and eliminating all tariffs in the lucrative auto trade that will give major European car makers a chance to increase sales through lower prices.

New NAFTA rules could increase the cost of a car by hundreds or even thousands of dollars, act as a multibillion - dollar tax, and ultimately hurt sales as consumers keep their wallets shut, a new study predicts.Thursday, April 26, 6:00 pm ET

On Tuesday, «CBS This Morning» co-host Gayle King asked Musk about the hundreds of thousands of people who put down thousand - dollar deposits and still have not received their cars.

BNSF has billions upon billions of dollars in debt, which help fund its massive capital expenditure budget for railroad track, railroad cars, and other infrastructure.

Not only would this allow them to rake in some of the trillions of dollars that they could make through the sale of cars and on - demand services, but it would also let them eat into Uber's dominance over the industry.

PHIL LEBEAU, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Here in China, the sales of American - made cars and SUVs are growing, even though they cost thousands of dollars more than comparable models sold in the U.S.

Prior to the acquisition, the four largest U.S. rental car companies — Avis Budget, Enterprise, Hertz and Dollar Thrifty — accounted for about 97 percent of the business at the top 50 U.S. airports, according to Abrams Consulting Group data.

But Apple and other Big Tech corporations like Google and Amazon — along with much of Big Pharma and even Starbucks — have avoided paying hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes on their worldwide earnings because they don't mainly sell physical things like cars or refrigerators or television sets that they make here and ship abroad.

The car rental business is consolidating, with Hertz's acquisition of Dollar Thrifty in November and the Avis Budget Group's announcement last week that it planned to buy the car - sharing company Zipcar.

Owners are able to make hundreds — or even thousands — of dollars a month by simply and safely renting out their cars.

He noted that Dollar Thrifty had been of interest to other rental car companies because it represented a way to gain market share in the value market for both leisure and business travelers.

The company has invested billions of dollars in a massive factory in Nevada to produce batteries that could be used for cars, or homes that produce solar power and need to store unused energy.

The same pathway that has put many in the seat of a new car — the lease — is taking off as a financial vehicle for homeowners who don't have tens of thousands of dollars sitting around to buy a rooftop solar - panel system outright.

• «Americans annually spend billions of dollars on convenience items for the home, office, car, or for personal enjoyment.»

In the intervening six years, Uber was busy dismantling the global taxi industry, brawling with regulators and politicians, fending off employment lawsuits, exploring self - driving car technologies, and raising billions of dollars.

Car companies like GM, Volkswagen, Daimler and many others are putting billions of dollars towards backing a range of startups that are building technology and services for that brave new automotive future (a small handful of examples: GM investing $ 1 billion in Lyft, Volkswagen investing $ 180 million in smart car tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $ 1 billion into Argo AI for self - driving tecCar companies like GM, Volkswagen, Daimler and many others are putting billions of dollars towards backing a range of startups that are building technology and services for that brave new automotive future (a small handful of examples: GM investing $ 1 billion in Lyft, Volkswagen investing $ 180 million in smart car tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $ 1 billion into Argo AI for self - driving teccar tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $ 1 billion into Argo AI for self - driving tech).

Tech companies like Uber, Waymo and Lyft, as well as automakers like General Motors and Toyota, have spent billions developing self - driving cars in the belief that the market for them could one day be worth trillions of dollars.

The move comes as car makers and investors are pumping in billions of dollars into the so - called new energy vehicle sector in China, the world's biggest auto market, which is preparing to roll out tough norms to promote the sector to fight urban smog and cut dependence on imported oil.

If people fill their cars at a dollar a gallon, the OPEC countries will run out of cash reserves and their people are used to free education and free hospital care and free everything else and they will not tolerate working for a living and paying for everything.

If you want to save up to thousands of dollars, do not go straight to a car dealer.

In fact, when it comes to its very limited edition supercars like the LaFerrari, Ferrari's million dollar plus sale prices still leave a lot of money on the table for its elite cadre of customers who see the resale value of their cars rise to multiples of their purchase price.

Now look at it like this, why is it that so many people are willing to pay top dollar for houses, cars, and pricy items, but willfully turn away a free gift of salvation?

Kody is driving a shiny white high dollar sports car and one of the wives drives a broken down old chevy or pontiac.

They're hoping the investment in multi-million dollar contracts, like say the $ 100 million to Jerry Seinfeld for a full - series of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee or the cool $ 40 million paid to Chris Rock for 2 specials, will return dividends in their entertainment media takeover.