User Car Buying Guide 1994


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With the average price of a new car now exceeding $16,000, this guide, fully updated and revised annually, provides consumers with the kinds of information needed to make the best choices, evaluating a used car's fuel ecomomy and performance level, as well as its overall quality and repair record.




Consumer Reports Travel Buying Guide 1994


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This highly praised annual offers objective and thorough travel-buying strategies, tips, and insider information for getting people exactly where they want to go--at the lowest price possible. Covers air, rail, and sea travel; accommodations; car rentals; working with a travel agent; planning an itinerary; and more.




Consumer Reports Used Car Buying Guide


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"Consumer Reports Used Car Buying Guide" gives shoppers comprehensive advice on more than 200 models, including reliability histories for 1992-1999 models of cars, SUVs, minivans, and pickup trucks. 225+ photos & charts.




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Used Car Buying Guide 1995


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With the average price of a new car now exceeding $18,000, this is the guide used-car buyers wait for--the one the New York Daily News called the most useful guide on the market. This guide will steer consumers to the makes and models most likely to provide reliable and practical transportation, and help minimize the chance of making an expensive mistake.




What Car Dealers Won't Tell You (2005 Edition)


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Buying a car? Afraid you’ll get ripped off? Bob Elliston, President of Automotive Consumer Information Service, Inc., gives you the insider tips you need to get the best car—and the best deal. Elliston walks the reader through each stage of buying a car and includes valuable information on: • Using the psychology of the car dealer to negotiate a great deal • Deciding between buying or leasing, new or used, foreign or American • Shopping at auto auctions • Figuring out what to pay—before entering the dealership • How to use the Internet to your best advantage—from research to online buying services With checklists, tables, and work sheets not found anywhere else, What Car Dealers Won’t Tell You levels the playing field and takes the uncertainty out of buying a car.




New Car Buying Guide


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This essential guide offers all the tools necessary to negotiate for the best price, including reliability ratings, profiles, and crash-test results for more than 210 new car models.




Hybrid Factories in the United States


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This book assesses the transferability of Japanese-style management and production systems to 81 factories in North America owned by Japanese companies. All of the book's investigations are based on an original methodology, "hybridization analysis", which quantifies the degree to which features of the Japanese system have been transplanted, using an elaborate checklist and scoring system. With its wealth of data, it should serve as a handy reference volume to anyone interested in the issue of international management and the impact of globalization upon production models.




Why We Fail


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Just as pilots and doctors improve by studying crash reports and postmortems, experience designers can improve by learning how customer experience failures cause products to fail in the marketplace. Rather than proselytizing a particular approach to design, Why We Fail holistically explores what teams actually built, why the products failed, and how we can learn from the past to avoid failure ourselves.




Federal Register


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