More than one-third of 1, 600 multinational firms surveyed by Hewitt now offer a company car.
Kay plays a supermarket worker forced to spend his commute with a colleague as part of a company car-share scheme.
If you do the latter, you can, in good conscience, stretch out and relax (and maybe count the Caddy as a company car).
Over the past five years, sales at Lear Corp, which is based near Detroit, have grown fivefold, transforming the firm from a manufacturer of car seats into a company that produces entire car interiors.
If you run a hospital or a car company or an Ivy League university, antitrust law restricts the information you can share with other firms in your industry.
Carmakers could also use purchases by employees, which often account for as much as a quarter of a car company's output, to lop off peaks and fill up troughs.
And that they'll be free to make a series of decisions as a new car company in a new auto world.
They might be happy to have a free company car.
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Let me provide a look at how a car company tracks profitability of a product program: measured are material cost and labor, and these are deducted from the selling price.
Additionally, the company is also working with the My City Way apps, which cover 40 cities in the US and that many abroad, offering traffic cameras, POIs, and even public transit info -- a little odd for a car company.
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Fellow guests during my stay included a famous fashion designer, the president of a French car company, and a cabinet minister.
It used to take five years for a bright new idea in a car company to reach market and make a contribution to increased profits.
Your hosts can also open doors to hard-to-visit wineries, custom-stock your already well-stuffed (and free) minibar, book a chef to prepare dinner in your room, or--in my case--badger a rental car company into swapping out a lemon and delivering the replacement.
The entity came about in 2010 when Mahindra bought Reva, a small electric-car company that over a decade sold less than 5, 000 models of its tiny electric car, the REVAi.
After a recent meeting with Gildo Pallanca Pastor, race-car driver and owner of a tiny car company in Monaco called Venturi, Wynne will soon be able to move up to a 300hp engine with better turbochargers and a wider exhaust system.
In the beginning, Saturn was supposed to be a different kind of car sold by a different kind of car company.
In later years, Winner also directed and starred in a series of commercials for a car insurance company featuring the catchphrase: "Calm down dear!"
In an example provided by the car company, a driver whose car gets a new rating of 36 mpg instead of the original rating of 37 mpg would get reimbursed for 7.5 gallons of gasoline after driving 10, 000 miles.
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Someone discovers that a car company has been covering up an issue regarding brake failures.
Ms. BURKES: For a car company to come the - it's got every job you might want.
Building a car company from the ground up is not easy, especially one that involves new technology.
But the economics will change dramatically if Google or a car company decides to begin mass-producing self-driving cars.
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His stepmother is called Teresa Earnhardt and she owned Dale Earnahrdt Incorporated, which is a race car company.
Do you trust a car company to keep you safe, or does that responsibility fall to a driver?
Nothing a car company can do, from low interest loans to rebates to price cuts, tends to have much impact.
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Their IPO was overshadowed by the IPO of a big car company, also audited by Deloitte, on the same day.
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The collapse of a big car company would provide a huge test.
Ms. LINDA BURKES(ph): I pray every day like, I said, for a car company come to this area, and we pray for it.
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