The David Brown era had ended when Sir David sold up in 1972, and new owners Company Holdings were, by their own admission, «
not car people».
Millennials, they're
not car people.»
Even if you are
not a car person, you know that electricity and water do not mix.
I am
not a car person, that is, I don't know specifics about engines, etc..
im technically
not a car person, but, there's something inside me that wld NEVER let me buy a ford... lol
Not exact matches
I smiled and waved and said I was fine, that I was just waiting for my wife to pick me up... the last thing I wanted was to crawl into another
person's
car because I wasn't feeling well.
The belief is that most online businesses will never be able to compete with the personalized service of a
person at the counter waiting to help you, to ask you how your day is going, to help carry your bags to your
car, to lend you a bathroom, and to sell you things you don't really need.
People didn't have as much money to spend, so they opted for cheaper, used
cars rather than brand new options.
Young
people don't want to be associated with the stereotype of the used
car salesman trying to hoodwink a naïve customer.
Lexus usually doesn't allow
people with no experience in the
car business to buy in.
Watch Out, Apple and Google: Survey Reveals
People Don't Trust Tech Companies to Build Self - Driving
Cars
While Ford is putting a lot of focus on its delivering goods, the company isn't abandoning its inevitable future of using driverless
cars to also deliver
people.
«It's
not about the connected
car, it's about the unconnected
car that most
people own,» says Jay Giraud, Mojio's CEO.
Lacking a leader, «it's hard for me to be optimistic or pessimistic because I don't know if they're going to open the floodgates and take a lot of risks to rush the technology out — or if they're going to take a reasonable, rational pathway to protecting
people,» said David Friedman, director of
cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union.
But most
people don't drive new luxury
cars.
He now employs more than 600
people, and even though he says he went broke two times on the wrong moves — «I could've gone to Harvard twice, the money I lost on
cars» — it hasn't scared him.
Dozens of billboards line the highway, pushing
not party slogans but modern - day dreams to Russia's 143 million
people: chic global fashion brands, European luxury
cars, and much more.
It's
not a bad idea, since vaccines are similar to robot
cars — they could save many
people from death and illness, but they may occasionally make others seriously ill.
I think a
car should be helping
people,
not replacing
people, so we call this a highly autonomous
car,» said Kai Yu, the head of Baidu's Institute of Deep Learning.
Zipcar, ironically, discovered that even
people who forgo
car ownership don't like to walk very far when they need to rent one, so it adjusted resources to increase its density in key markets.
If
people no longer own
cars, they don't need
car insurance.
Ammann still sees lots of change in the next five years, largely in cities, where young
people are
not buying, or even leasing,
cars the way they used to.
The company intends to keep Jeep to anchor the mass - market
car business that also includes the Dodge and Ram brands, said the
people, who asked
not to be identified because the deliberations are private.
Although Hian's collateral, clothes, isn't as sure a thing as, say,
cars, Schneider feels Hian's biggest liability is that she's
not surrounding herself with
people who can help her develop a comprehensive business plan that will attract venture capitalists, bankers or angel investors.
And he talked about the company's investments in self - driving
cars, a new office in Silicon Valley, and transforming Ford into a «mobility» company that was thinking about a world where
people might
not own
cars outright.
«I realized that I wasn't going to be able to have the kind of life
people have in the States — a good house, a nice
car, maybe a summer house — if I finished school and went to work for a company,» Fuks says.
Other
people are
not using their
cars for periods of time.
It's gotten so bad that the government mandates, by law,
people can
not drive their
car for two days out of the week depending on the last digit of their license plate.
If we go back to determining what success means, some
people think the answer is obvious: Flashy
cars, big homes, a public profile... but that's
not how I define success.
While Zipcar gives consumers an alternative to owning a
car — an inherently environmentally - friendly and therefore classically social entrepreneurship type of endeavor — that's
not why
people buy into the Zipcar model.
People might not even think of this, but there are people who work in tech but are low - paid, like cafeteria workers and custodial staff, and a lot of them also live out of their cars because they just can't afford being in ho
People might
not even think of this, but there are
people who work in tech but are low - paid, like cafeteria workers and custodial staff, and a lot of them also live out of their cars because they just can't afford being in ho
people who work in tech but are low - paid, like cafeteria workers and custodial staff, and a lot of them also live out of their
cars because they just can't afford being in housing.
Unfortunately, unless you're plugged into a
car battery, this smile is hard to fake and hold, because for most
people it isn't easy to control the related eye muscles at will.
Other
people could then hail a ride in the Tesla, generating income for the owners when they aren't using the
car.
Lyft as well as rival Uber have a history of drumming up ways to attract drivers, even for
people who don't own
cars.
In Chicago alone, there were 60,000
people who applied to become a driver, but were denied because they didn't have a
car that qualified.
Most
people don't think much about all the time they spend in their
cars driving to sales calls, meetings or even OfficeMax, but those work - related miles add up.
For example,
people with a score of 650 or higher might
not have to pay a deposit on a rental
car.
With the advent of virtual reality, however, it may
not be long until
people can simply strap on headsets and shop for used
cars without having to leave their homes.
Still, wealth doesn't necessarily equate to how well you know the market (and by far, most truly wealthy
people don't splurge on items like overpriced
cars).
When
people think about 3M, the 115 - year - old maker of Scotch Tape, they might
not associate the old - line consumer goods manufacturer with electric
cars.
Can we ever trust self - driving
cars if it turns out we can't trust the
people who are making them?
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — About four years ago, the Google team trying to develop
cars driven by computers —
not people — became convinced that sooner than later, the technology would be ready for the masses.
The
car rental business came full circle: Suddenly, Enterprise's slew of downtown locations — used by
people whose
cars are in the shop or who don't own
cars at all — offered a less cyclical, more profitable model.
RC: Transportation is super-interesting, and one trend that
people don't fully appreciate is how profound the self - driving
car will be.
After a week - long standoff with regulators last December when Uber argued that its
cars do
not meet the state's definition of an autonomous vehicle because they require constant monitoring by a
person, Uber moved its self - driving
cars from San Francisco to Arizona, a state with fewer regulations for autonomous vehicles.
They don't want to keep
people in
cars six or seven years.»
Likewise, Jimmy Branch, owner of Speedy
Car Wash in Panama City, Fla., tried «Men's Monday» and «Women's Wednesday» specials but discovered that when
people wash their
cars wasn't important because they were washing them so infrequently.