Car & Automotive

All organizations must evaluate their core competencies. As an Auto Dealership, selling, servicing, and repairing cars are definitely at your core.  What about washing and detailing cars? Conversations with General Managers, Sales Managers, and Service Managers indicate that managing the detail department is frustrating: Fixed cost for a variable service High […]

he word Mustang conjures up an image of a wild horse. These are very abundant in the canyons of America and are associated with speed and power. The Ford design team in the sixties when thinking of a name for their “muscle car” hit upon the Mustang as a name […]

Technology has done it again with their new car DVD. DVD systems for your cars have been available for quite a while now, but they are nothing like the new ones that have hit the market. These new players even come with touch screen capabilities where everything is done with […]

Do you know why it’s important to find a good mechanic or a good repair shop to repair your car? The reason: it could save you hundreds of dollars in parts and labor! When we say a “good mechanic” or a “good repair shop”, we’re referring to mechanics who are […]

If you are planning to ship your car overseas in areas that have facilities to provide automotive services, your car’s vehicle warranty issued by your car manufacturer and/or dealer in the United States may not be valid overseas. You should look into buying an extended auto warranty often called an […]

The “Chinese economic miracle” seems to have captured the whole world’s attention, especially when it comes to production, manufacturing, sourcing, FDI inflow to China etc’. But do we know about the biggest sector in the Chinese labour market – the agricultural sector? The PRC inherited a ruined country, exhausted from […]

Emperor Kangxi rewarded those who reclaimed wastelands, provided large sums of money for water conservancy projects and reduced the land taxation during his 60-year’s reign, which greatly stimulated the recovery and development in agriculture of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Emperor Yongzheng followed his father’ (Emperor Kangxi) footsteps and continued to […]

Eli Whitney built the first cotton gin, and that revolutionized cotton farming, it changed everything, forever in that sector. Today the business of agriculture is going very high-tech, very fast. More mechanized equipment, robotic systems, and high-tech tools. The massive productivity increases and crop yields is completely astounding, unfortunately, this […]

The Green Revolution refers to the dramatic increase in the production of food calories occurring with the following developments I) selective breeding of high yielding crops, which also display added resistance to common diseases; ii) widespread use of fertilizers and pesticides; iii) mechanization of crop harvesting. Beginning in the 1940’s, […]

Consider a tricky situation. You have gone shopping and stop your precious car on the side of a very busy road to get a quick smoke. When you come back, however, you find that you have been locked out of your car. It might spell immediate disaster if your car […]