Visitors are more likely to think it is an art gallery or modern office block than a car factory.
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More recently, the authorities tried to develop Bam by rebuilding the ancient town as a tourist attraction and by building a car factory on the edge of the desert.
Trinamool, which means grassroots, won after she led a campaign against plans by Tata, India's biggest firm, to build a car factory on land she claimed was taken unfairly from farmers.
When Ratan Tata, a revered industrialist, tried to build a car factory in West Bengal, its populist leader flung him out, arguing that farmers were being unjustly forced off their land.
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Some critics note that Mr Magalhaes's sudden concern for the poor dates back to a row last month over the tax breaks and government loans offered to Ford to build a car factory in his home state, Bahia.
Hyundai, for example, confirmed that it would suspend construction of a semiconductor plant in Scotland and a car factory in Indonesia (both measures that had already been announced), and postponed its founder's dream of building a steel plant.
The loss of 190 jobs have been confirmed with the closure of a car parts factory in Rhondda Cynon Taf, a union has confirmed.
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South Korean police have broken up a strike at a car parts factory which was threatening the country's car industry.
First, imagine a NAFTA single market, with legal powers to ban congressional aid intended to stop a Detroit car factory moving to Mexico.
Talks to try to save a car parts factory near Swansea, which is due to close with the loss of 200 jobs, are due to be held.
Although cuts at GM and Chrysler have removed some (though not enough) excess capacity in America, not a single car factory in Europe has closed so far.
However, Belgian politicians, their hackles raised by Renault's recent decision to close a local car factory, are professing outrage at the mere idea of Lyonnaise running Tractabel.
His route ran close to those neighbours' borders, with brief hops across, for instance to meet the Polish president and prime minister, and to visit a Skoda car factory, in the Czech republic but owned by Volkswagen.
Getting a car from the factory to the dealer is the biggest single chunk of time in the order-to-delivery timeline.
Just outside Bangkok, on January 21st, riot police clashed violently with 3, 000 workers at a car-parts factory protesting at cuts in their bonuses.
There is also a Maserati MCC12 factory car, which won Maserati's first victory in 37 years, at the 2004 GIA GT championship race at Oschersleben, Germany.
They may well have worried that the Honda workers' tenacity could inspire others (a brief strike did break out at a Hyundai car-parts factory on May 28th).
Mr Wang's rethink was triggered by a spate of 200-odd strikes last year in the Pearl River delta that began in May with workers downing tools at a Honda car-parts factory in Foshan, near Guangzhou.
Viewer Jean Hobbs suggested turning a Mini Clubman car, which has been uncovered 30 years after being left in a tunnel under the Longbridge factory where it was built, into a sculpture to show off the city's car-making history.
He drove the car to a contemporary Fiat factory in Bielsku-Biala, Poland, the home of Polski Fiat.
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Car buyers pay for labour, steel and paint, but the price sticker may not reflect the full cost of the noxious goo the car factory spills into a river.
With cars, a company either has to make the car domestically and ship it abroad, or build a factory abroad in order to sell products there.
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In 1967 he returned to the North West to become a production line worker at the Vauxhall car factory at Ellesmere Port.
The factory offers a walk through car-manufacturing history, much of which Toyota has written, and whose successful methods the world's automakers--and other manufacturers--have rushed to adopt.
Expect this kind of connectivity to become more common in vehicles in the near future, but for now A7 is the only car on the market with a factory-installed broadband wi-fi feature.
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When one factory lagged unloading a 130-car coal train, he pushed its managers to work Saturdays so that his trains wouldn't sit unused all weekend.
And as a student he had worked during the holidays in various factories belonging to the Fiat group: on a car-production line in Poland, in a dealership in France and in a component factory in the English Midlands, where he boarded with a very ordinary English family.
"It's been a great car, " remarked Keith Slep who runs an auto repair shop a few miles from the factory.
Before the Briton entered Formula One last year, Dennis said he would give Hamilton a rare McLaren F1 road car, currently on display at the Woking factory, if he won three titles for him.
Not only is one of the candidates a former bartender, boxer, prison guard, professional gambler, car-factory worker and snowplough driver.
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