Posts Tagged ‘Ford’

100Mmi, a lesson on rust and dust

August 26, 2010mike 1 Comment »

100Mmi, a lesson on rust and dust… say what? 100 thousand (M) miles. 100,000 miles is a big milestone, psychologically six figures is often seen as a good thing (read salary).  100,000 miles on a car is often met with mixed reviews.  On one had your car is getting worn, on the other hand you [...]

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Problems with the Pre and a lecture in manufacturing

August 8, 2010mike Comments Off

If you are even a semi-regular reader of this site you will know, I have a Palm (HP) Pre.  Yes the original one for Sprint, and got it shortly after it came out (a week or two, yes I’m a geek). If you’re even a semi-regular reader of life you will kn0w not to buy [...]

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Why American manufacturing is so important

July 24, 2010mike Comments Off

Its Economics 101.  Put large factory in town, all those employees need a place to eat, shop, live, etc.  Big economic impact on that town. Ok, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, you name it, they all have large assembly factories in American towns, those employees have to do all of the above. Economics 201, executives of Ford, [...]

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Total Recall

January 24, 2010mike Comments Off

I know the Governator is a little busy right now to make a sequel to his famed 1990 film Total Recall, but if he needs a script I can throw one together.  Total Recall Toyota. This seems to be back page news, but Toyota seems to be on the verge of a Total Recall.  Yes [...]

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Innovation

October 9, 2009mike Comments Off

Let’s just put this out there, I am kind of a big dork, so the things I read about are a bit on the dorky side.  One of the things that caught my eye lately was an article in Popular Mechanics http://www.popularmechanics.com/breakthrough09/ .  The article was talking about a number of innovations and one theme [...]

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