DiMora's $2 Million Natalia SLS2Store this angel in big sizeFrom engineering architecture to applicant customization, Patchwork3D interactively shows the Natalia SLS 2 action affluence auto and every basic allotment
Palm Springs, CA - November 27, 2007 - Mercury Computer Systems is the latest aggregation to become a Technology Partner with DiMora Motorcar in the development of the Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan. Mercury will accommodate its Patchwork3D software apartment to accomplish alternate astute examination of all locations of the $2 actor auto based aloft computer-aided architecture engineering data.
DiMora Motorcar Founder and CEO Alfred DiMora acclaimed the accent of fast, astute visualization. "Patchwork3D gives our engineers the adeptness to see the impacts of anniversary addition access to a architecture botheration actual quickly. This enables them to try added approaches until they are assured that they accept zeroed in on the best solution."
He aswell acclaimed the amount of Patchwork3D if a applicant customizes the car about to be produced. "I am abnormally afflicted by the accuracy and accomplished detail that Patchwork3D provides if assuming how the arrangement of the autogenous covering will appear in altered lighting conditions. This is basic absoluteness at its best."
Mercury's Vice President, Visualization Sciences Group, Jean-Bernard Cazeaux, talked about alive with DiMora Motorcar. "We are able supporters of what Alfred DiMora is accomplishing to authenticate America's adeptness to aftermath the world's finest automobiles. This follows the admirable attitude of drillmaster architecture in the era of the Duesenbergs. This admixture of archetypal adroitness with high-tech accoutrement such as Patchwork3D will aftermath astonishing automobiles that redefine the acceptation of Made in America."
The $2 actor Natalia SLS 2 action affluence auto will affection the 1200-horsepower DiMora Volcano V16 engine and added avant-garde electronics and animal comforts than accept anytime been chip into a assembly vehicle. The aboriginal ancestor is appointed for achievement in backward 2009, followed by the common admission in Beverly Hills, California. The auto will again be apparent abundantly at above technology and motor car shows about the world.
About Patchwork3D
Patchwork3D is a absolute software branch for alternate 3D agenda design. Built about an award-winning real-time astute apprehension engine, Patchwork3D offers a complete software apartment to acceptation CAD models, administer textures and lighting, and accomplish alternate astute viewing. With real-time apprehension and astute simulation of abstracts and lightings, Patchwork3D allows automated designers to acquaint as aboriginal as the architecture date begins, carrying actual high-quality agenda mock-ups to validate artefact appulse afore manufacturing. Patchwork3D provides to communications and sales humans a aboveboard band-aid to bazaar automated products.
About Mercury Computer Systems
Headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. is the arch provider of accretion systems and software for data-intensive applications that cover angel processing, arresting processing, and visualizations. Mercury offers component-level and system-level solutions that amount hardware, software, silicon IP, services, and systems. The aggregation has over 800 advisers with R&D, support, and sales locations in France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
DiMora Motorcar
1775 E. Palm Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs CA 92264
Mr. Robert Bliss
760-534-2317
rbliss@dimoramotorcar.com
www.dimoramotorcar.com
About DiMora Motorcar
Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles advised to beat expectations for safety, performance, technology, ecology, beauty, comfort, and luxury. It reveals the design, production, and testing of these automobiles via the Internet so that humans about the apple can participate in and apprentice from the process.
The Founder, CEO, and active force abaft DiMora Motorcar is Alfred J. DiMora, who produced two of America's finest affluence automobiles, the Clenet (as owner) and the Sceptre (as co-founder). He and the Clenet were inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1986 for the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-powered Automobile. He aswell founded Starbridge Systems, Inc., area he developed the world's fastest FPGA supercomputer. With his abstruse and automotive backgrounds, Alfred DiMora blends the two worlds calm to actualize this new acquaintance in automotive history, the Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan. Please appointment www.dimoramotorcar.com.
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Von Stach Products Inc. - World's First Heated Frameless Wiper Clears Windshield on $2 Million Supercar
DiMora Motorcar $2 Million Natalia SLS 2Store this angel in big sizeDiMora Motorcar is First OEM to Select HeatFlexx System as Standard Equipment
Sault Ste. Marie, MI – December 12, 2007 – Von Stach Products appear today that its "HeatFlexx" acrimonious frameless windshield wiper will be accepted accessories on the Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan, the world's a lot of big-ticket assembly automobile.
The electrically-heated "HeatFlexx" windshield wiper bound melts ice and snow. The frameless architecture of the all-season casting provides connected even burden to the windshield, abbreviation streaks while abbreviation wind lift at speeds up to 150 MPH. The wiper was alien at the SEMA and AAPEX auto shows in Las Vegas and is advised by abounding to be one of the a lot of atypical inventions in the automotive industry this year.
"Ice and snow accept been a botheration for drivers back the birth of the automobile," says John Von Stach, artist of the HeatFlexx wiper. "With our product, drivers will no best attempt with poor afterimage due to ailing activity wiper blades. We are captivated to accept our wipers installed on the Natalia SLS 2 and to be a technology accomplice with DiMora Motorcar."
DiMora Motorcar Founder and CEO Alfred J. DiMora acclaimed that the car will affection abounding different innovations which accept never been apparent in a assembly automobile. "The HeatFlexx windshield wiper is a different and outstanding product. We are admiring to be the aboriginal OEM to cover Heatflexx as accepted equipment, with its controls chip into our dashboard/steering caster operation." Mr. DiMora declared the ambition for the Natalia is to be the a lot of characteristic affluence auto in busline history.
The HeatFlexx windshield wiper arrangement is accessible as an aftermarket artefact calmly installed by the consumer. Please appointment www.heatflexx.com to locate the banker abutting you.
About DiMora Motorcar
Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles advised to beat expectations for safety, performance, technology, ecology, beauty, comfort, and luxury. It reveals the design, production, and testing of these automobiles via the Internet so that humans about the apple can participate in and apprentice from the process.
The founder, CEO, and active force abaft DiMora Motorcar is Alfred J. DiMora, who produced two of America's finest affluence automobiles, the Clenet (as owner) and the Sceptre (as co-founder). He and the Clenet were inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1986 for the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-powered Automobile. He aswell founded Starbridge Systems, Inc., area he developed the world's fastest FPGA supercomputer. With his abstruse and automotive backgrounds, Alfred DiMora blends the two worlds calm to actualize this new acquaintance in automotive history, the Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan. Please appointment www.dimoramotorcar.com for added information.
Von Stach Products and Heatflexx are registered trademarks of VSP Inc. Patents Pending. All rights reserved. All added marks are backdrop of their corresponding holders.
Jason Collins
Von Stach Products Inc.
705-949-0067 ext 24
jason@heatflexx.com
www.heatflexx.com
About Von Stach Products
Founded in 2003 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, Von Stach Products is committed to convalescent disciplinarian afterimage for safer car operation. With avant-garde articles such as De-Icer, the electric heating casting to cook ice on disciplinarian and commuter ancillary windows, it aggressively attacks the botheration of befitting bottle bright in cold, wet weather. Its latest advance artefact is the HeatFlexx acrimonious frameless windshield wiper, the aboriginal of abounding articles to be appear aural the wiper category. Please appointment www.heatflexx.com.
Sault Ste. Marie, MI – December 12, 2007 – Von Stach Products appear today that its "HeatFlexx" acrimonious frameless windshield wiper will be accepted accessories on the Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan, the world's a lot of big-ticket assembly automobile.
The electrically-heated "HeatFlexx" windshield wiper bound melts ice and snow. The frameless architecture of the all-season casting provides connected even burden to the windshield, abbreviation streaks while abbreviation wind lift at speeds up to 150 MPH. The wiper was alien at the SEMA and AAPEX auto shows in Las Vegas and is advised by abounding to be one of the a lot of atypical inventions in the automotive industry this year.
"Ice and snow accept been a botheration for drivers back the birth of the automobile," says John Von Stach, artist of the HeatFlexx wiper. "With our product, drivers will no best attempt with poor afterimage due to ailing activity wiper blades. We are captivated to accept our wipers installed on the Natalia SLS 2 and to be a technology accomplice with DiMora Motorcar."
DiMora Motorcar Founder and CEO Alfred J. DiMora acclaimed that the car will affection abounding different innovations which accept never been apparent in a assembly automobile. "The HeatFlexx windshield wiper is a different and outstanding product. We are admiring to be the aboriginal OEM to cover Heatflexx as accepted equipment, with its controls chip into our dashboard/steering caster operation." Mr. DiMora declared the ambition for the Natalia is to be the a lot of characteristic affluence auto in busline history.
The HeatFlexx windshield wiper arrangement is accessible as an aftermarket artefact calmly installed by the consumer. Please appointment www.heatflexx.com to locate the banker abutting you.
About DiMora Motorcar
Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles advised to beat expectations for safety, performance, technology, ecology, beauty, comfort, and luxury. It reveals the design, production, and testing of these automobiles via the Internet so that humans about the apple can participate in and apprentice from the process.
The founder, CEO, and active force abaft DiMora Motorcar is Alfred J. DiMora, who produced two of America's finest affluence automobiles, the Clenet (as owner) and the Sceptre (as co-founder). He and the Clenet were inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1986 for the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-powered Automobile. He aswell founded Starbridge Systems, Inc., area he developed the world's fastest FPGA supercomputer. With his abstruse and automotive backgrounds, Alfred DiMora blends the two worlds calm to actualize this new acquaintance in automotive history, the Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan. Please appointment www.dimoramotorcar.com for added information.
Von Stach Products and Heatflexx are registered trademarks of VSP Inc. Patents Pending. All rights reserved. All added marks are backdrop of their corresponding holders.
Jason Collins
Von Stach Products Inc.
705-949-0067 ext 24
jason@heatflexx.com
www.heatflexx.com
About Von Stach Products
Founded in 2003 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, Von Stach Products is committed to convalescent disciplinarian afterimage for safer car operation. With avant-garde articles such as De-Icer, the electric heating casting to cook ice on disciplinarian and commuter ancillary windows, it aggressively attacks the botheration of befitting bottle bright in cold, wet weather. Its latest advance artefact is the HeatFlexx acrimonious frameless windshield wiper, the aboriginal of abounding articles to be appear aural the wiper category. Please appointment www.heatflexx.com.
Flowtonics LLC - Flowtonics Provides Real-time Oil Analysis on DiMora Motorcar Volcano V16 Engine
$2 Millon Natalia SLS 2 by DiMora MotorcarStore this angel in big size$2 Million Natalia Luxury Automobile is First to Use this Breakthrough Technology
Rochester, NY, March 10, 2008 - Flowtonics, avant-garde in the acreage of inline aqueous above sensors and real-time abstracts analysis, appear today that its systems will accommodate connected oil above ecology for the DiMora Motorcar Volcano V16 engine, the powerplant active the American-made $2 actor Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan.
The adventuresomeness technology of the Flowtonics FS-3 sensor is a patented address that measures changes in electrochemical backdrop of the oil acquired by contagion and oil breakdown. Advanced appraisal and allocation algorithms complete into the sensor construe raw abstracts into meaningful, actionable after-effects provided to the disciplinarian utilizing Azentek's Atlas on-board computer in absolute time.
"The Volcano V16 engine puts out 1200 horsepower. We charge to be in actuality assertive that the engine oil is maximizing its backdrop 100 percent of the time," said DiMora Motorcar Founder and CEO Alfred DiMora. "The Flowtonics arrangement gives the Natalia disciplinarian that confidence. It aswell can ascertain contaminants in the oil, accouterment an aboriginal admonishing arrangement of accessible approaching problems. This is a absolute addition in antitoxin maintenance."
Flowtonics Executive Vice President Johnny Cooper acclaimed the acceptation of acceptable a Technology Partner with DiMora Motorcar. "The Natalia SLS 2 is the aboriginal assembly auto to depend on the Flowtonics in-situ aqueous above sensor and appraisal system. This emphasizes Mr. DiMora's administration and charge to access the automotive industry to embrace the beat real-time ecology and anxiety technologies accessible today."
Mr. Cooper went on to agenda the amiable impacts of accurate engine oil above advice in abbreviation operating costs and attention the environment. "Flowtonics can bear car owners the accuracy about their aqueous bloom against the algebraic assumption now acclimated to agenda oil change intervals. If the oil is still assuming properly, don't pay for new oil and don't could cause a auctioning botheration with the old oil."
The Flowtonics FS-3 sensor not alone monitors accepted changes in aqueous above as it ages, but aswell distinguishes amid assorted contaminants (coolant, water, fuel, soot) to bare and analyze engine problems and advice abstain irreversible engine damage. Flowtonics FS-3 band of sensors are accepting developed for markets including agile barter operations, automated abundant equipment, marine, agronomical equipment, and the oil industry.
The Natalia SLS 2 pushes the banned of technology to accommodate the a lot of admirable and absolute automotive acquaintance for disciplinarian and commuter alike. It is aswell advised to serve as a showpiece and educational apparatus illustrating the amaranthine addition of companies above America. "It was a affable abruptness to acquisition that Flowtonics is based in Rochester, New York, my own home town," added Mr. DiMora.
About Flowtonics
Headquartered in Rochester, New York, with sales offices in North America and Europe, Flowtonics LLC is bringing to bazaar the a lot of advanced, low-cost, real-time aqueous above technology for motor vehicles. Combining years of analysis and development in the areas of analytic and anxiety accessories bloom management, in-vehicle computing, and beat telematics, Flowtonics acute sensor systems can be scaled to fit specific chump initiatives to lower absolute amount of ownership. The patented sensor technology alcove above simple two-dimensional claiming methods, application complete intelligence to accommodate allusive advice that barter can act on.
Flowtonics uses beat condition-based aliment technology to account barter above a ample industry range, and can bear top volume, top reliability, top above custom articles about the apple to amuse the toughest chump requirements. Flowtonics is positioned at the arch bend of the arduous aggressive apple of real-time sensing, whenever and wherever aqueous above matters. For added information, amuse alarm 585-239-6025 or appointment www.flowtonics.com.
Flowtonics LLC
Rochester New York
Media Contact:
John Sonnenberg
585-239-6025
jsonnenberg@flowtonics.com
About DiMora Motorcar
Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles advised to beat expectations for safety, performance, technology, ecology, beauty, comfort, and luxury. We are the aboriginal to acknowledge the design, production, and testing of our automobiles via the Internet so that humans about the apple can participate in--and apprentice about--the process.
The founder, CEO, and active force abaft DiMora Motorcar, Alfred J. DiMora, produced two of America's finest affluence automobiles, the Clenet (as owner) and the Sceptre (as co-founder). When President Reagan declared 1986 the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-Powered Automobile, Mr. DiMora's Clenet was called as the Official Centennial Car. As a result, he and the Clenet were accustomed at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Michigan. He aswell founded Starbridge Systems, Inc., area he developed the FPGA supercomputer. Using his abstruse and automotive backgrounds, Alfred DiMora blends the two worlds calm to actualize this new acquaintance in automotive history, the Natalia SLS 2. For added advice about our articles and how your aggregation can become a Technology Partner of DiMora Motorcar, amuse appointment www.dimoramotorcar.com.
Rochester, NY, March 10, 2008 - Flowtonics, avant-garde in the acreage of inline aqueous above sensors and real-time abstracts analysis, appear today that its systems will accommodate connected oil above ecology for the DiMora Motorcar Volcano V16 engine, the powerplant active the American-made $2 actor Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan.
The adventuresomeness technology of the Flowtonics FS-3 sensor is a patented address that measures changes in electrochemical backdrop of the oil acquired by contagion and oil breakdown. Advanced appraisal and allocation algorithms complete into the sensor construe raw abstracts into meaningful, actionable after-effects provided to the disciplinarian utilizing Azentek's Atlas on-board computer in absolute time.
"The Volcano V16 engine puts out 1200 horsepower. We charge to be in actuality assertive that the engine oil is maximizing its backdrop 100 percent of the time," said DiMora Motorcar Founder and CEO Alfred DiMora. "The Flowtonics arrangement gives the Natalia disciplinarian that confidence. It aswell can ascertain contaminants in the oil, accouterment an aboriginal admonishing arrangement of accessible approaching problems. This is a absolute addition in antitoxin maintenance."
Flowtonics Executive Vice President Johnny Cooper acclaimed the acceptation of acceptable a Technology Partner with DiMora Motorcar. "The Natalia SLS 2 is the aboriginal assembly auto to depend on the Flowtonics in-situ aqueous above sensor and appraisal system. This emphasizes Mr. DiMora's administration and charge to access the automotive industry to embrace the beat real-time ecology and anxiety technologies accessible today."
Mr. Cooper went on to agenda the amiable impacts of accurate engine oil above advice in abbreviation operating costs and attention the environment. "Flowtonics can bear car owners the accuracy about their aqueous bloom against the algebraic assumption now acclimated to agenda oil change intervals. If the oil is still assuming properly, don't pay for new oil and don't could cause a auctioning botheration with the old oil."
The Flowtonics FS-3 sensor not alone monitors accepted changes in aqueous above as it ages, but aswell distinguishes amid assorted contaminants (coolant, water, fuel, soot) to bare and analyze engine problems and advice abstain irreversible engine damage. Flowtonics FS-3 band of sensors are accepting developed for markets including agile barter operations, automated abundant equipment, marine, agronomical equipment, and the oil industry.
The Natalia SLS 2 pushes the banned of technology to accommodate the a lot of admirable and absolute automotive acquaintance for disciplinarian and commuter alike. It is aswell advised to serve as a showpiece and educational apparatus illustrating the amaranthine addition of companies above America. "It was a affable abruptness to acquisition that Flowtonics is based in Rochester, New York, my own home town," added Mr. DiMora.
About Flowtonics
Headquartered in Rochester, New York, with sales offices in North America and Europe, Flowtonics LLC is bringing to bazaar the a lot of advanced, low-cost, real-time aqueous above technology for motor vehicles. Combining years of analysis and development in the areas of analytic and anxiety accessories bloom management, in-vehicle computing, and beat telematics, Flowtonics acute sensor systems can be scaled to fit specific chump initiatives to lower absolute amount of ownership. The patented sensor technology alcove above simple two-dimensional claiming methods, application complete intelligence to accommodate allusive advice that barter can act on.
Flowtonics uses beat condition-based aliment technology to account barter above a ample industry range, and can bear top volume, top reliability, top above custom articles about the apple to amuse the toughest chump requirements. Flowtonics is positioned at the arch bend of the arduous aggressive apple of real-time sensing, whenever and wherever aqueous above matters. For added information, amuse alarm 585-239-6025 or appointment www.flowtonics.com.
Flowtonics LLC
Rochester New York
Media Contact:
John Sonnenberg
585-239-6025
jsonnenberg@flowtonics.com
About DiMora Motorcar
Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles advised to beat expectations for safety, performance, technology, ecology, beauty, comfort, and luxury. We are the aboriginal to acknowledge the design, production, and testing of our automobiles via the Internet so that humans about the apple can participate in--and apprentice about--the process.
The founder, CEO, and active force abaft DiMora Motorcar, Alfred J. DiMora, produced two of America's finest affluence automobiles, the Clenet (as owner) and the Sceptre (as co-founder). When President Reagan declared 1986 the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-Powered Automobile, Mr. DiMora's Clenet was called as the Official Centennial Car. As a result, he and the Clenet were accustomed at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Michigan. He aswell founded Starbridge Systems, Inc., area he developed the FPGA supercomputer. Using his abstruse and automotive backgrounds, Alfred DiMora blends the two worlds calm to actualize this new acquaintance in automotive history, the Natalia SLS 2. For added advice about our articles and how your aggregation can become a Technology Partner of DiMora Motorcar, amuse appointment www.dimoramotorcar.com.
Barotex Technology / Harry Hibler - World’s Most Expensive Production Car is First to Use Volcanic Rock
Store this angel in big sizeBarotex Adds Strength, Cuts Weight in DiMora’s $2 Million Automobile
Chatsworth, CA, August 11, 2008-Barotex Technology Corporation (BARX), artist and ambassador of the arresting Barotex® asleep fiber, appear today that it has become the newest Technology Partner to plan with DiMora Motorcar to advance and aftermath the Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan.
Barotex abstracts accept characteristics that accomplish them above to carbon fiber, fiberglass, Kevlar, and added beat abstracts in a array of applications. "Barotex enables our architecture aggregation to actualize some of the arch and a lot of abiding automotive apparatus anytime produced," declared Alfred DiMora, Founder and CEO of DiMora Motorcar.
DiMora added noted, "For the Natalia SLS 2, Barotex will be formed into assorted anatomy panels and our advocate D-Tek™ chassis, area its top backbone will add decidedly to the automobile's torsional rigidity. Yet our anatomy will be added than a thousand pounds lighter than the accepted animate anatomy begin on added affluence automobiles of agnate size."
Barotex starts as agitable rock, broadly accessible throughout the world. "In contrast, carbon cilia articles are petroleum-based, and we apperceive about the challenges that involves," said Lilo Beuzieron, CEO of Barotex Technology Corporation and artist of Barotex. "Not alone is bedrock bedrock added abundant, but our accomplishment action requires far beneath energy. It is affable to the environment, and the automobiles complete with Barotex are lighter, so they use beneath activity every mile traveled."
"We afresh accustomed our apparent for the proprietary action acclimated to aftermath Barotex," acclaimed Beuzieron. "We are captivated that the aboriginal assembly auto to accommodate this technology will be DiMora’s Natalia SLS 2, which abounds with abstruse breakthroughs from bonanza to bumper."
The versatility of Barotex cilia abstracts brings aberrant uses to a advanced array of articles for markets including automotive, aerospace, ballistics, industrial, and antic goods. In bolt form, Barotex offers an accomplished aggregate of properties, from top backbone and appulse attrition to blaze attrition and architecture adaptability. The architecture abeyant and adaptability accessible are about unlimited, acknowledgment to the advanced ambit of yarn sizes and aberrant patterns that are available. Barotex does not amplitude or compress afterwards acknowledgment to actual top or low temperatures, authoritative it acutely abiding in the assembly of auto bodies and accompanying parts.
The top strength-to-weight arrangement of Barotex cilia makes it a above actual in abounding automotive applications. Barotex cilia is an asleep actual that will not bake or abutment combustion, which aswell improves commuter safety.
DiMora added, "When we began designing our 16-cylinder engine that would appear with 1200 horsepower, we absitively to alarm it the Volcano V16. It's alone accustomed that we now beleaguer the DiMora Volcano with agitable bedrock from Barotex."
Barotex Technology Corporation
D. Harry Hibler
13400 Riverside Drive #205
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
818-377-9012
www.barotextechnology.com
About Barotex Technology Corporation
Headquartered in Chatsworth, California, Barotex Technology Corporation has developed a ancestors of abstracts that represent a absolutely confusing and paradigm-shifting technology. We aftermath fibers that advance the above and achievement of our customers' articles in the all-around armoring, transportation, industrial, aerospace and chump markets. Barotex alloyed appurtenances and a lot of articles fabricated application the fibers can be recycled to aftermath new materials. For added information, amuse appointment www.barotextechnology.com.
About DiMora Motorcar
Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles advised to beat expectations for safety, performance, technology, ecology, beauty, comfort, and luxury. We are the aboriginal to acknowledge the design, production, and testing of our automobiles via the Internet so that humans about the apple can apprentice about—and participate in—the process.
The founder, CEO, and active force abaft DiMora Motorcar, Alfred J. DiMora, produced two of America's finest affluence automobiles, the Clenet (as owner) and the Sceptre (as co-founder). When President Reagan declared 1986 the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-Powered Automobile, Mr. DiMora's Clenet was called as the Official Centennial Car. As a result, he and the Clenet were accustomed at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Michigan. He aswell founded Starbridge Systems, Inc., area he developed the FPGA supercomputer. Using his abstruse and automotive backgrounds, Alfred DiMora blends the two worlds calm to actualize this new acquaintance in automotive history, the Natalia SLS 2. For added advice about our articles and how your aggregation can become a Technology Partner of DiMora Motorcar, amuse appointment www.dimoramotorcar.com.
Chatsworth, CA, August 11, 2008-Barotex Technology Corporation (BARX), artist and ambassador of the arresting Barotex® asleep fiber, appear today that it has become the newest Technology Partner to plan with DiMora Motorcar to advance and aftermath the Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan.
Barotex abstracts accept characteristics that accomplish them above to carbon fiber, fiberglass, Kevlar, and added beat abstracts in a array of applications. "Barotex enables our architecture aggregation to actualize some of the arch and a lot of abiding automotive apparatus anytime produced," declared Alfred DiMora, Founder and CEO of DiMora Motorcar.
DiMora added noted, "For the Natalia SLS 2, Barotex will be formed into assorted anatomy panels and our advocate D-Tek™ chassis, area its top backbone will add decidedly to the automobile's torsional rigidity. Yet our anatomy will be added than a thousand pounds lighter than the accepted animate anatomy begin on added affluence automobiles of agnate size."
Barotex starts as agitable rock, broadly accessible throughout the world. "In contrast, carbon cilia articles are petroleum-based, and we apperceive about the challenges that involves," said Lilo Beuzieron, CEO of Barotex Technology Corporation and artist of Barotex. "Not alone is bedrock bedrock added abundant, but our accomplishment action requires far beneath energy. It is affable to the environment, and the automobiles complete with Barotex are lighter, so they use beneath activity every mile traveled."
"We afresh accustomed our apparent for the proprietary action acclimated to aftermath Barotex," acclaimed Beuzieron. "We are captivated that the aboriginal assembly auto to accommodate this technology will be DiMora’s Natalia SLS 2, which abounds with abstruse breakthroughs from bonanza to bumper."
The versatility of Barotex cilia abstracts brings aberrant uses to a advanced array of articles for markets including automotive, aerospace, ballistics, industrial, and antic goods. In bolt form, Barotex offers an accomplished aggregate of properties, from top backbone and appulse attrition to blaze attrition and architecture adaptability. The architecture abeyant and adaptability accessible are about unlimited, acknowledgment to the advanced ambit of yarn sizes and aberrant patterns that are available. Barotex does not amplitude or compress afterwards acknowledgment to actual top or low temperatures, authoritative it acutely abiding in the assembly of auto bodies and accompanying parts.
The top strength-to-weight arrangement of Barotex cilia makes it a above actual in abounding automotive applications. Barotex cilia is an asleep actual that will not bake or abutment combustion, which aswell improves commuter safety.
DiMora added, "When we began designing our 16-cylinder engine that would appear with 1200 horsepower, we absitively to alarm it the Volcano V16. It's alone accustomed that we now beleaguer the DiMora Volcano with agitable bedrock from Barotex."
Barotex Technology Corporation
D. Harry Hibler
13400 Riverside Drive #205
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
818-377-9012
www.barotextechnology.com
About Barotex Technology Corporation
Headquartered in Chatsworth, California, Barotex Technology Corporation has developed a ancestors of abstracts that represent a absolutely confusing and paradigm-shifting technology. We aftermath fibers that advance the above and achievement of our customers' articles in the all-around armoring, transportation, industrial, aerospace and chump markets. Barotex alloyed appurtenances and a lot of articles fabricated application the fibers can be recycled to aftermath new materials. For added information, amuse appointment www.barotextechnology.com.
About DiMora Motorcar
Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles advised to beat expectations for safety, performance, technology, ecology, beauty, comfort, and luxury. We are the aboriginal to acknowledge the design, production, and testing of our automobiles via the Internet so that humans about the apple can apprentice about—and participate in—the process.
The founder, CEO, and active force abaft DiMora Motorcar, Alfred J. DiMora, produced two of America's finest affluence automobiles, the Clenet (as owner) and the Sceptre (as co-founder). When President Reagan declared 1986 the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-Powered Automobile, Mr. DiMora's Clenet was called as the Official Centennial Car. As a result, he and the Clenet were accustomed at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Michigan. He aswell founded Starbridge Systems, Inc., area he developed the FPGA supercomputer. Using his abstruse and automotive backgrounds, Alfred DiMora blends the two worlds calm to actualize this new acquaintance in automotive history, the Natalia SLS 2. For added advice about our articles and how your aggregation can become a Technology Partner of DiMora Motorcar, amuse appointment www.dimoramotorcar.com.
DiMora Motorcar - The DiMora Initiative seeks to allege to Congress on account of the absolute American automakers
Alfred DiMora Founder of DiMora MotorcarStore this angel in big sizeAn abreast angle on the proposed $34 billion bailout of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler and A advanced action and alarm to action to anticipate the new American automotive industry for the 21st Century
Presented by
DiMora Motorcar
An Independent American Automaker
December 3, 2008
Overview
Drawing abaft them the aphotic storm clouds of a threatened depression, America's automotive giants are pressuring Congress to act precipitously and accord aloft them billions of aborigine dollars in adjustment to anticipate their accelerate into bankruptcy.
However, if beheld from the angle of the 21st Century all-around automotive industry, their abortion to abode abiding challenges calls into catechism whether a Congressional decision, fabricated beneath such circumstances, has any astute achievability of accepting the appropriate accommodation for American taxpayers and the nation as a whole.
"It is alone with new eyes that we can apprentice from the acquaint of Detroit's failures, and Silicon Valley's successes, to rethink, redesign, and clean a new American automotive industry for the 21st Century."
- Alfred DiMora, Founder, DiMora Motorcar
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The DiMora Initiative
Situation
The American auto industry, as we apperceive it, is in trouble. Detroit's celebrated Big Three manufacturers--General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler--have accomplished decades of abbreviating sales and crumbling profits. They accept been abhorrent for accidental to all-around warming, and face accretion regulations and ascent criticism for bearing the amiss cars for our times, while accepting led by an anachronous accumulated culture.
These long-festering problems accept afresh been aggravated by a common bread-and-butter slowdown, the continuing all-around banking crisis, and advanced fluctuations in ammunition prices. These uncertainties accept acquired abounding ambitious car buyers to change, delay, or abolish their auto acquirement plans.
With challenges advancing from all sides, the Big Three, acutely disowning any accountability and abrasion abreast the acumen of the marketplace, are now allurement American taxpayers for a banknote beverage of thirty-four billion dollars. They seek to actuate the American accessible that this will admission them the time and banking assets bare to fix their problems, save their companies, accomplishment American jobs, and fortify the American economy.
By accomplishing so, Detroit is pressuring Washington with two austere options: bailout or bankruptcy. Congress faces the difficult best of acceptance such threatened bankruptcies to occur, or providing, on ambiguous authority, the Big Three with a potentially continuing beck of billions of dollars from the pockets of afraid and agnostic taxpayers, who see neither a bright aisle to advantage nor any affirmation that such a aisle even exists. Furthermore, although Congress is now acute a specific plan assuming a bright aisle against abiding viability, the appraisal and blank of any such plan would crave of Congress the requisite adeptness to accept and best the abounding challenges of the automotive industry of the 21st Century.
It is accurate that abounding businesses and individuals accept already suffered from Detroit's decline, and abounding added would be aching by the collapse of one or added of these companies. In a asperity such as this, finger-pointing is all too easy. As President Kennedy declared over four decades ago, "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
This is the appropriate time to acquisition a bigger way to clean the American automotive industry. The accepted crisis ability best be apparent as an befalling to crop a beginning attending at what should be preserved, discarded, or created, in adjustment to clean our American automotive industry, to be the best in the world.
At pale are billions of dollars of aborigine money and the peoples' acceptance in their adopted officials' adeptness to blueprint a wholly new, untested, and alien advance of government captivation in clandestine action during an advancing bread-and-butter crisis.
Realities of the 21st Century Automotive Industry
In anecdotic the realities that have to be faced by a acknowledged 21st Century American automotive industry, we are allurement the question, whether systems that were advantageous in the 20th Century ability still be accepted to serve able-bodied in the 21st Century. We have to aswell ask whether the Big Three are able of authoritative the all-important changes, already those changes are identified, or whether aggravation and bequest burdens ability anticipate them from acting in time to anticipate their demise.
Labor Costs
In adjustment to be competitive, automotive manufacturers have to seek to aerate the activity they accept for the costs they incur. Increasingly, activity is acceptable a common article that knows few boundaries. If a accurate automotive basic can be produced at the manufacturer's branch for $100, bought from a bounded supplier for $80, or apprenticed out to an across aggregation for $35, there have to be some added application to could cause the aggregation to accept the $100 option.
This is bread-and-butter reality. If the "other consideration" is a tariff, a threatened strike, a government directive, or agnate coercion, the net aftereffect is that the architect have to atone by adopting the amount of the car produced. This reduces the competitiveness of the car in the all-around exchange and the above and amount of cars sold. It aswell reduces the charge for advisers at the factory, activity at the bounded companies that accumulation that factory, servers at restaurants abreast the factory, the amount of stockholders' equity, etc.
Therefore, any appraisal of the bloom of the Big Three have to abode this key affair of activity costs. For decades, the United Auto Workers abutment has succeeded in negotiating affairs with activity ante and allowances that a lot of American workers would accede generous. Benefits are paid to abounding autoworkers, continued afterwards the cars they produced accept been sold. Part of the amount of a 2009 auto goes to pay for pensions and medical affliction to accomplished advisers who accept not angry a bend in this century.
Big Three administration has empiric this growing botheration for decades. This is one acumen they now buy locations and services, that in the past, they would accept fabricated themselves. Even if it costs added now to buy a aperture handle from a contractor, than to accomplish it internally, the automaker knows it will not accept to abide to pay allowances to the handle-maker's advisers for decades to come. In a lot of cases, the contractor's advisers accept pay and allowances bales far beneath acceptable than UAW-negotiated Big Three compensation.
In contempo years, Big Three admiral accept fabricated some advance in attached their activity costs in arrangement negotiations with the United Auto Workers. Legislation accompanying a Congressional bailout amalgamation could strengthen the Big Three's adeptness to exact added concessions from the UAW. Whether these accoutrement would be as able as the adaptability provided during defalcation restructuring is accessible to question.
Companies that are not bedfast by accomplished concessions to the UAW accept bigger ascendancy over activity costs, plan rules, etc. When auto companies such as Nissan, Toyota, BMW, Honda, Subaru, Hyundai, and Mercedes absitively to body factories in the United States, they bypassed union-friendly Michigan in favor of states such as Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, and Georgia.
It shouldn't abruptness anybody that, while the Big Three are closing factories and adverse accessible defalcation in Michigan, Kia is architecture a $1.2 billion branch in Georgia, able of bearing 300,000 automobiles per year. Johnson Controls, Inc., the world's better maker of automotive seats, is aswell architecture a bulb in Georgia to abutment the Kia production. New automotive factories are aswell planned for Toyota in Mississippi and Volkswagen in Tennessee, in the next two years
Technology
The history of the auto has been one of continuing innovation. Nevertheless, improvements are alien actual boring in automotive curve for abounding reasons. In the present agency of production, the costs of engineering a new auto and advancing factories for accumulation assembly are so abundant that actual ample assembly runs are bare to amortize these anchored costs. As a result, a accustomed archetypal is generally produced for years, with alone accessory corrective changes fabricated to differentiate archetypal years. Political climate, regulations, and even administration attitudes can aswell apathetic innovation.
This may be assorted with the high-tech apple of agenda electronics, an industry that understands the charge to innovate and accomplish quickly, area the alone connected is change. Companies apperceive and embrace the actuality that their products, facilities, processes, procedures, marketing, and organizations that aftermath their business success today have to all be always adapted or replaced if they are to be acknowledged in the next actual business cycle.
In alone a few decades, the supernova of Silicon Valley created over fifty thousand of the highest-paying jobs in America, and about bisected a abundance dollars in anniversary revenue. The Detroit auto industry is still aggravating to attempt in 2008 application systems and means of cerebration that were anachronistic decades ago. It is alone now alpha to attending to high-tech addition and the elements that aftermath it for the keys to convalescent profitability. Yet, it is still declining to recognize, reproduce, or acclimate the abounding innovations of Silicon Valley, whether in banking, adventure capital, marketing, networking or administration structures and incentives.
At the aforementioned time, Detroit's automotive industry has bootless to acknowledge rapidly abundant to alteration chump demands, while adversity the after-effects of what now appears to be a abstruse abortion of vision. The attempts by Congress to access Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards accept been met with annealed attrition and delay, causing those standards to be set so low or pushed so far into the approaching as to accomplish them around meaningless.
The Leadership Factor
Successful car companies advance and abound if the leaders in allegation of them are amorous about automobiles. When Lee Iacocca took over Chrysler, every Dodge barter chump knew who ran the show. Iacocca had a bright eyes of what the aggregation could become and how to accomplish his goals. He complete a aggregation that aggregate his affection for creating abundant cars. Can the aforementioned be apparent in the controlling suites of GM, Ford, and Chrysler today? (How abounding Super Bowl Champions accept a advocate or accountant as the arch coach?)
The aforementioned is accurate of any industry. It took the acknowledgment of architect Steve Jobs to Apple Computer to balance from the beforehand bootless administration of Pepsi controlling John Sculley.
What's a lot of bare now is to restore the American automotive industry to all-around competitiveness. This is the eyes and entrepreneurialism of America's absolute automakers.
A Different Perspective on the Proposed $34 Billion Bailout
It should not be affected that a massive banknote beverage can break the problems of Detroit and the American automotive industry. The after-effects of any advance of action will be absurd to predict, after aboriginal developing an abreast angle on the industry.
Much of the accepted agitation assumes that the arch affair is the approaching annihilation of one or added of the Big Three automotive manufacturers. It is affected that this would be adverse for the American economy, and all Americans would ache from the fallout. It is a actuality that a complete abeyance of General Motors would lay off hundreds of bags of employees, with agnate layoffs at the bags of businesses that either accumulation locations and casework to GM and its employees, or depend aloft the auction of GM articles for their livelihood.
There are, however, celebrated precedents for the blow of huge numbers of employees. At the end of World War II, the U.S. aggressive concluded the application of millions of men and women in uniform, and chock-full affairs huge numbers of tanks, trucks, ships, airplanes, bombs, etc. This was a far beyond amount of layoffs and bulb closings than the accepted bearings threatens, in a country with beneath than bisected today's population. Yet these humans were captivated into the noncombatant abridgement in a almost abbreviate time and the abridgement grew. It is accurate that the cease of a Big Three aggregation would be a confusing and aching action for hundreds of bags of workers and their families, but they and the nation would survive.
It is amiss to anticipate that the bankruptcy, restructuring, or even cease of a Big Three architect is a David Copperfield abracadabra trick, area the auto artlessly vanishes. Corporate assets are awash to companies that accept uses for those assets, such as creating and business added automobiles. This action of affairs off assets has been advancing for abounding years, and includes Ford's auction of Jaguar and Land Rover, as able-bodied as GM's aftereffect of Delphi in 1999, and added recently, its auction of Allison Transmissions and authoritative absorption in GMAC. If Washington chooses not to accommodate billions of dollars to the Big Three at this time, their restructuring or cease would acceptable advance to the auction of added assets to alfresco companies that accept they can use those assets productively.
Would the accident of a Big Three architect advance to a curtailment of American-made automobiles? This is awful unlikely. There are added above manufacturers in the United States that would anon crop up the slack. Toyota, Honda, BMW, Hyundai, Nissan, Mercedes, and Subaru all accomplish ample numbers of automobiles in the United States. Some humans ability criticize that these are not absolutely American cars, as their ancestor companies are foreign. There are at atomic two responses to this. Did those aforementioned humans accept that Dodge and Chrysler articles were not American cars during the years if Chrysler was endemic by the German company, Daimler Chrysler? Ownership no best has bounded limits; Americans buy banal in Honda, Daimler, and Toyota on the New York Stock Exchange every business day.
For taxpayers and Congress, abounding difficult questions remain. What percent of the jobs that will be adored are actuality in the USA, and what percent are in adopted countries? Will all of the funds provided be acclimated for calm operations in the USA? What is the proposed plan of blank and accountability, on account of the taxpayer? This time, will the taxpayers know, in what amounts, and to whom these moneys are accepting distributed?
A New Vision
In the aberrant amount of handing over billions of dollars of aborigine money to abandoned clandestine companies, no access or angle alms a way out of the present morass should be overlooked.
As one example, the costs of developing a new auto do not all accept to be borne by the architect whose aggregation name is on the car. DiMora Motorcar has approved this, with the new Natalia SLS 2, now beneath development, area up to 150 aggressive technology ally will ultimately be complex in advance their own innovations and assets in this new adorning model. These ally will be administration in the publicity and business that the architect obtains for the car, as able-bodied as benefiting from abiding assembly affairs and mass-market spin-offs, creating a dynamic, advancing ambiance of innovation.
Preliminary discussions with abounding industry experts accept assertive the leaders of the DiMora Initiative that a avant-garde car aggregation and its assembly accessories could be complete for beneath two billion dollars, with a adequacy of carrying 400,000 cars a year by 2011. In ablaze of this option, Congress have to counterbalance the amount of a around-the-clock bailout adjoin the absolute achievability of allotment a new industry effort, led by the eyes of absolute automakers.
What again should be the approaching of the American auto industry in the 21st Century? That may depend abundantly on decisions that will be fabricated over the next several months (or even weeks) by Congress and the new administration.
Many humans are blind that there are added than three American automakers. While they aftermath far beneath automobiles than the Big Three, this Initiative believes their innovations and eyes to be of greater importance. Companies such as Shelby, Tesla Motors, Saleen, and DiMora Motorcar are beat new technologies and designs for architecture automobiles in the United States and business them to the world.
In adjustment that the articulation of these absolute American automakers ability be heard, the architect of DiMora Motorcar, Alfred DiMora, is establishing the DiMora Initiative. It is believed that alone in this way will an alfresco angle be added to what should be a civic agitation on the approaching of this basic civic industry. Therefore, the DiMora Initiative is auspicious citizens and Congress, industry workers, absolute auto companies and arch industry admiral and innovators, to appoint in a analytical chat to amend the fundamentals of the American automotive industry in the 21st Century.
This is the affectionate of thinking, not clashing the NASA model, that has already created success at DiMora Motorcar. By unleashing the adroitness of the best minds in the industry, airy by the economics of the bazaar and the assembly line, this aggregation has been able to affect a billow of innovation, bearing cogent new technologies that will ultimately acquisition their way into the accustomed automobile.
By afterward this course, not alone ability a new and affluent American auto industry be built, but new insights will be acquired for absolute the challenges of Detroit.
The DiMora Initiative seeks to allege to Congress on account of the absolute American automakers and the American accessible apropos these basic issues.
We appetite all anxious to add their choir to this Initiative, auspicious a added assay of these issues in the achievement that we ability auspiciously clean a new American abridgement for the 21st Century.
Go to: www.dimoramotorcar.com/contact.html
About DiMora Motorcar
Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles advised to beat expectations for safety, performance, technology, ecology, beauty, comfort, and luxury. We are the aboriginal to acknowledge the design, production, and testing of our automobiles via the Internet so that humans about the apple can apprentice about--and participate in--the process.
The founder, CEO, and active force abaft DiMora Motorcar, Alfred J. DiMora, produced two of America's finest affluence automobiles, the Clenet (as owner) and the Sceptre (as co-founder). When President Reagan declared 1986 the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-Powered Automobile, Mr. DiMora's Clenet was called as the Official Centennial Car. As a result, he and the Clenet were accustomed at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Michigan. He aswell founded Starbridge Systems, Inc., area he developed the FPGA supercomputer. Using his abstruse and automotive backgrounds, Alfred DiMora blends the two worlds calm to actualize this new acquaintance in automotive history, the Natalia SLS 2. For added advice about our articles and how your aggregation can become a Technology Partner of DiMora Motorcar, amuse appointment www.dimoramotorcar.com.
DiMora Motorcar
1775 E. Palm Caycon Dr Suite 110-121
Palm Springs Ca 92264
(760) 534-2317
Robert Bliss
rbliss@dimoramotorcar.com
www.dimoramotorcar.com
Presented by
DiMora Motorcar
An Independent American Automaker
December 3, 2008
Overview
Drawing abaft them the aphotic storm clouds of a threatened depression, America's automotive giants are pressuring Congress to act precipitously and accord aloft them billions of aborigine dollars in adjustment to anticipate their accelerate into bankruptcy.
However, if beheld from the angle of the 21st Century all-around automotive industry, their abortion to abode abiding challenges calls into catechism whether a Congressional decision, fabricated beneath such circumstances, has any astute achievability of accepting the appropriate accommodation for American taxpayers and the nation as a whole.
"It is alone with new eyes that we can apprentice from the acquaint of Detroit's failures, and Silicon Valley's successes, to rethink, redesign, and clean a new American automotive industry for the 21st Century."
- Alfred DiMora, Founder, DiMora Motorcar
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The DiMora Initiative
Situation
The American auto industry, as we apperceive it, is in trouble. Detroit's celebrated Big Three manufacturers--General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler--have accomplished decades of abbreviating sales and crumbling profits. They accept been abhorrent for accidental to all-around warming, and face accretion regulations and ascent criticism for bearing the amiss cars for our times, while accepting led by an anachronous accumulated culture.
These long-festering problems accept afresh been aggravated by a common bread-and-butter slowdown, the continuing all-around banking crisis, and advanced fluctuations in ammunition prices. These uncertainties accept acquired abounding ambitious car buyers to change, delay, or abolish their auto acquirement plans.
With challenges advancing from all sides, the Big Three, acutely disowning any accountability and abrasion abreast the acumen of the marketplace, are now allurement American taxpayers for a banknote beverage of thirty-four billion dollars. They seek to actuate the American accessible that this will admission them the time and banking assets bare to fix their problems, save their companies, accomplishment American jobs, and fortify the American economy.
By accomplishing so, Detroit is pressuring Washington with two austere options: bailout or bankruptcy. Congress faces the difficult best of acceptance such threatened bankruptcies to occur, or providing, on ambiguous authority, the Big Three with a potentially continuing beck of billions of dollars from the pockets of afraid and agnostic taxpayers, who see neither a bright aisle to advantage nor any affirmation that such a aisle even exists. Furthermore, although Congress is now acute a specific plan assuming a bright aisle against abiding viability, the appraisal and blank of any such plan would crave of Congress the requisite adeptness to accept and best the abounding challenges of the automotive industry of the 21st Century.
It is accurate that abounding businesses and individuals accept already suffered from Detroit's decline, and abounding added would be aching by the collapse of one or added of these companies. In a asperity such as this, finger-pointing is all too easy. As President Kennedy declared over four decades ago, "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
This is the appropriate time to acquisition a bigger way to clean the American automotive industry. The accepted crisis ability best be apparent as an befalling to crop a beginning attending at what should be preserved, discarded, or created, in adjustment to clean our American automotive industry, to be the best in the world.
At pale are billions of dollars of aborigine money and the peoples' acceptance in their adopted officials' adeptness to blueprint a wholly new, untested, and alien advance of government captivation in clandestine action during an advancing bread-and-butter crisis.
Realities of the 21st Century Automotive Industry
In anecdotic the realities that have to be faced by a acknowledged 21st Century American automotive industry, we are allurement the question, whether systems that were advantageous in the 20th Century ability still be accepted to serve able-bodied in the 21st Century. We have to aswell ask whether the Big Three are able of authoritative the all-important changes, already those changes are identified, or whether aggravation and bequest burdens ability anticipate them from acting in time to anticipate their demise.
Labor Costs
In adjustment to be competitive, automotive manufacturers have to seek to aerate the activity they accept for the costs they incur. Increasingly, activity is acceptable a common article that knows few boundaries. If a accurate automotive basic can be produced at the manufacturer's branch for $100, bought from a bounded supplier for $80, or apprenticed out to an across aggregation for $35, there have to be some added application to could cause the aggregation to accept the $100 option.
This is bread-and-butter reality. If the "other consideration" is a tariff, a threatened strike, a government directive, or agnate coercion, the net aftereffect is that the architect have to atone by adopting the amount of the car produced. This reduces the competitiveness of the car in the all-around exchange and the above and amount of cars sold. It aswell reduces the charge for advisers at the factory, activity at the bounded companies that accumulation that factory, servers at restaurants abreast the factory, the amount of stockholders' equity, etc.
Therefore, any appraisal of the bloom of the Big Three have to abode this key affair of activity costs. For decades, the United Auto Workers abutment has succeeded in negotiating affairs with activity ante and allowances that a lot of American workers would accede generous. Benefits are paid to abounding autoworkers, continued afterwards the cars they produced accept been sold. Part of the amount of a 2009 auto goes to pay for pensions and medical affliction to accomplished advisers who accept not angry a bend in this century.
Big Three administration has empiric this growing botheration for decades. This is one acumen they now buy locations and services, that in the past, they would accept fabricated themselves. Even if it costs added now to buy a aperture handle from a contractor, than to accomplish it internally, the automaker knows it will not accept to abide to pay allowances to the handle-maker's advisers for decades to come. In a lot of cases, the contractor's advisers accept pay and allowances bales far beneath acceptable than UAW-negotiated Big Three compensation.
In contempo years, Big Three admiral accept fabricated some advance in attached their activity costs in arrangement negotiations with the United Auto Workers. Legislation accompanying a Congressional bailout amalgamation could strengthen the Big Three's adeptness to exact added concessions from the UAW. Whether these accoutrement would be as able as the adaptability provided during defalcation restructuring is accessible to question.
Companies that are not bedfast by accomplished concessions to the UAW accept bigger ascendancy over activity costs, plan rules, etc. When auto companies such as Nissan, Toyota, BMW, Honda, Subaru, Hyundai, and Mercedes absitively to body factories in the United States, they bypassed union-friendly Michigan in favor of states such as Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, and Georgia.
It shouldn't abruptness anybody that, while the Big Three are closing factories and adverse accessible defalcation in Michigan, Kia is architecture a $1.2 billion branch in Georgia, able of bearing 300,000 automobiles per year. Johnson Controls, Inc., the world's better maker of automotive seats, is aswell architecture a bulb in Georgia to abutment the Kia production. New automotive factories are aswell planned for Toyota in Mississippi and Volkswagen in Tennessee, in the next two years
Technology
The history of the auto has been one of continuing innovation. Nevertheless, improvements are alien actual boring in automotive curve for abounding reasons. In the present agency of production, the costs of engineering a new auto and advancing factories for accumulation assembly are so abundant that actual ample assembly runs are bare to amortize these anchored costs. As a result, a accustomed archetypal is generally produced for years, with alone accessory corrective changes fabricated to differentiate archetypal years. Political climate, regulations, and even administration attitudes can aswell apathetic innovation.
This may be assorted with the high-tech apple of agenda electronics, an industry that understands the charge to innovate and accomplish quickly, area the alone connected is change. Companies apperceive and embrace the actuality that their products, facilities, processes, procedures, marketing, and organizations that aftermath their business success today have to all be always adapted or replaced if they are to be acknowledged in the next actual business cycle.
In alone a few decades, the supernova of Silicon Valley created over fifty thousand of the highest-paying jobs in America, and about bisected a abundance dollars in anniversary revenue. The Detroit auto industry is still aggravating to attempt in 2008 application systems and means of cerebration that were anachronistic decades ago. It is alone now alpha to attending to high-tech addition and the elements that aftermath it for the keys to convalescent profitability. Yet, it is still declining to recognize, reproduce, or acclimate the abounding innovations of Silicon Valley, whether in banking, adventure capital, marketing, networking or administration structures and incentives.
At the aforementioned time, Detroit's automotive industry has bootless to acknowledge rapidly abundant to alteration chump demands, while adversity the after-effects of what now appears to be a abstruse abortion of vision. The attempts by Congress to access Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards accept been met with annealed attrition and delay, causing those standards to be set so low or pushed so far into the approaching as to accomplish them around meaningless.
The Leadership Factor
Successful car companies advance and abound if the leaders in allegation of them are amorous about automobiles. When Lee Iacocca took over Chrysler, every Dodge barter chump knew who ran the show. Iacocca had a bright eyes of what the aggregation could become and how to accomplish his goals. He complete a aggregation that aggregate his affection for creating abundant cars. Can the aforementioned be apparent in the controlling suites of GM, Ford, and Chrysler today? (How abounding Super Bowl Champions accept a advocate or accountant as the arch coach?)
The aforementioned is accurate of any industry. It took the acknowledgment of architect Steve Jobs to Apple Computer to balance from the beforehand bootless administration of Pepsi controlling John Sculley.
What's a lot of bare now is to restore the American automotive industry to all-around competitiveness. This is the eyes and entrepreneurialism of America's absolute automakers.
A Different Perspective on the Proposed $34 Billion Bailout
It should not be affected that a massive banknote beverage can break the problems of Detroit and the American automotive industry. The after-effects of any advance of action will be absurd to predict, after aboriginal developing an abreast angle on the industry.
Much of the accepted agitation assumes that the arch affair is the approaching annihilation of one or added of the Big Three automotive manufacturers. It is affected that this would be adverse for the American economy, and all Americans would ache from the fallout. It is a actuality that a complete abeyance of General Motors would lay off hundreds of bags of employees, with agnate layoffs at the bags of businesses that either accumulation locations and casework to GM and its employees, or depend aloft the auction of GM articles for their livelihood.
There are, however, celebrated precedents for the blow of huge numbers of employees. At the end of World War II, the U.S. aggressive concluded the application of millions of men and women in uniform, and chock-full affairs huge numbers of tanks, trucks, ships, airplanes, bombs, etc. This was a far beyond amount of layoffs and bulb closings than the accepted bearings threatens, in a country with beneath than bisected today's population. Yet these humans were captivated into the noncombatant abridgement in a almost abbreviate time and the abridgement grew. It is accurate that the cease of a Big Three aggregation would be a confusing and aching action for hundreds of bags of workers and their families, but they and the nation would survive.
It is amiss to anticipate that the bankruptcy, restructuring, or even cease of a Big Three architect is a David Copperfield abracadabra trick, area the auto artlessly vanishes. Corporate assets are awash to companies that accept uses for those assets, such as creating and business added automobiles. This action of affairs off assets has been advancing for abounding years, and includes Ford's auction of Jaguar and Land Rover, as able-bodied as GM's aftereffect of Delphi in 1999, and added recently, its auction of Allison Transmissions and authoritative absorption in GMAC. If Washington chooses not to accommodate billions of dollars to the Big Three at this time, their restructuring or cease would acceptable advance to the auction of added assets to alfresco companies that accept they can use those assets productively.
Would the accident of a Big Three architect advance to a curtailment of American-made automobiles? This is awful unlikely. There are added above manufacturers in the United States that would anon crop up the slack. Toyota, Honda, BMW, Hyundai, Nissan, Mercedes, and Subaru all accomplish ample numbers of automobiles in the United States. Some humans ability criticize that these are not absolutely American cars, as their ancestor companies are foreign. There are at atomic two responses to this. Did those aforementioned humans accept that Dodge and Chrysler articles were not American cars during the years if Chrysler was endemic by the German company, Daimler Chrysler? Ownership no best has bounded limits; Americans buy banal in Honda, Daimler, and Toyota on the New York Stock Exchange every business day.
For taxpayers and Congress, abounding difficult questions remain. What percent of the jobs that will be adored are actuality in the USA, and what percent are in adopted countries? Will all of the funds provided be acclimated for calm operations in the USA? What is the proposed plan of blank and accountability, on account of the taxpayer? This time, will the taxpayers know, in what amounts, and to whom these moneys are accepting distributed?
A New Vision
In the aberrant amount of handing over billions of dollars of aborigine money to abandoned clandestine companies, no access or angle alms a way out of the present morass should be overlooked.
As one example, the costs of developing a new auto do not all accept to be borne by the architect whose aggregation name is on the car. DiMora Motorcar has approved this, with the new Natalia SLS 2, now beneath development, area up to 150 aggressive technology ally will ultimately be complex in advance their own innovations and assets in this new adorning model. These ally will be administration in the publicity and business that the architect obtains for the car, as able-bodied as benefiting from abiding assembly affairs and mass-market spin-offs, creating a dynamic, advancing ambiance of innovation.
Preliminary discussions with abounding industry experts accept assertive the leaders of the DiMora Initiative that a avant-garde car aggregation and its assembly accessories could be complete for beneath two billion dollars, with a adequacy of carrying 400,000 cars a year by 2011. In ablaze of this option, Congress have to counterbalance the amount of a around-the-clock bailout adjoin the absolute achievability of allotment a new industry effort, led by the eyes of absolute automakers.
What again should be the approaching of the American auto industry in the 21st Century? That may depend abundantly on decisions that will be fabricated over the next several months (or even weeks) by Congress and the new administration.
Many humans are blind that there are added than three American automakers. While they aftermath far beneath automobiles than the Big Three, this Initiative believes their innovations and eyes to be of greater importance. Companies such as Shelby, Tesla Motors, Saleen, and DiMora Motorcar are beat new technologies and designs for architecture automobiles in the United States and business them to the world.
In adjustment that the articulation of these absolute American automakers ability be heard, the architect of DiMora Motorcar, Alfred DiMora, is establishing the DiMora Initiative. It is believed that alone in this way will an alfresco angle be added to what should be a civic agitation on the approaching of this basic civic industry. Therefore, the DiMora Initiative is auspicious citizens and Congress, industry workers, absolute auto companies and arch industry admiral and innovators, to appoint in a analytical chat to amend the fundamentals of the American automotive industry in the 21st Century.
This is the affectionate of thinking, not clashing the NASA model, that has already created success at DiMora Motorcar. By unleashing the adroitness of the best minds in the industry, airy by the economics of the bazaar and the assembly line, this aggregation has been able to affect a billow of innovation, bearing cogent new technologies that will ultimately acquisition their way into the accustomed automobile.
By afterward this course, not alone ability a new and affluent American auto industry be built, but new insights will be acquired for absolute the challenges of Detroit.
The DiMora Initiative seeks to allege to Congress on account of the absolute American automakers and the American accessible apropos these basic issues.
We appetite all anxious to add their choir to this Initiative, auspicious a added assay of these issues in the achievement that we ability auspiciously clean a new American abridgement for the 21st Century.
Go to: www.dimoramotorcar.com/contact.html
About DiMora Motorcar
Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles advised to beat expectations for safety, performance, technology, ecology, beauty, comfort, and luxury. We are the aboriginal to acknowledge the design, production, and testing of our automobiles via the Internet so that humans about the apple can apprentice about--and participate in--the process.
The founder, CEO, and active force abaft DiMora Motorcar, Alfred J. DiMora, produced two of America's finest affluence automobiles, the Clenet (as owner) and the Sceptre (as co-founder). When President Reagan declared 1986 the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-Powered Automobile, Mr. DiMora's Clenet was called as the Official Centennial Car. As a result, he and the Clenet were accustomed at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Michigan. He aswell founded Starbridge Systems, Inc., area he developed the FPGA supercomputer. Using his abstruse and automotive backgrounds, Alfred DiMora blends the two worlds calm to actualize this new acquaintance in automotive history, the Natalia SLS 2. For added advice about our articles and how your aggregation can become a Technology Partner of DiMora Motorcar, amuse appointment www.dimoramotorcar.com.
DiMora Motorcar
1775 E. Palm Caycon Dr Suite 110-121
Palm Springs Ca 92264
(760) 534-2317
Robert Bliss
rbliss@dimoramotorcar.com
www.dimoramotorcar.com
Lenny Meyer / DiMora Custom Bikes - DiMora Motorcar Launches Custom Motorcycle Division
Alfred DiMoraStore this angel in big sizePalm Springs, California – DiMora Motorcar, maker of the $2 actor Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan, today appear the barrage of its motorcycle division, DiMora Custom Bikes. The division’s aboriginal models will be apparent this weekend at the Cycle World International Motorcycle Show in Long Beach, California.
Founder and CEO of DiMora Motorcar, Alfred DiMora offered, "In architecture the Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan, we accept been alive with the finest technologies, companies, and engineers in the apple to bear the ultimate in beat automotive engineering. We capital to action some of what we accept abstruse in an actual and accessible way by architecture what we apperceive will become the best motorcycles in the world."
When asked about his accommodation to barrage a motorcycle analysis and its timing, DiMora added, “This country was complete by inventors, antecedents and entrepreneurs. It is time we showed the apple what Americans can do again, and we don’t accept any time to waste.”
DiMora Custom Bikes will affectation three softail models at the show, which runs from December 4 to 6 in the Long Beach Convention Center. The DiMora 180 Night Move is a archetypal pro artery springer. The DiMora 250 Dragon’s Breath is an high ambit softail chopper. For the finest custom ride anywhere, the DiMora 300 ZTango is the ultimate simple addition softail chopper if amount is no object.
About DiMora Motorcar and DiMora Custom Bikes
Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles advised to beat expectations in every aspect of automotive engineering. It is the aboriginal auto aggregation to acknowledge the design, production, and testing of its automobiles via the Internet so that humans about the apple can apprentice about and participate in the process.
DiMora Custom Bikes takes the DiMora affection for abstruse addition and adherence to uncompromising above that are the hallmarks of the Natalia SLS 2 and brings them to the motorcycle world. Its articles will be accessible common through the DiMora banker arrangement now accepting established.
Alfred J. DiMora, architect and CEO, has produced two of America's finest affluence automobiles, the Clenet, as owner, and the Sceptre, as cofounder. When President Reagan declared 1986 the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-Powered Automobile, the Clenet was called as the Official Centennial Car, consistent in ceremoniousness for DiMora and the Clenet at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Michigan.
For added information, amuse appointment www.dimoramotorcar.com, and advancing soon, www.dimoracustombikes.com.
Lenny Meyer
DiMora Custom Bikes
820 Research Drive #4
Palm Springs, CA 92264
760-832-9070
lenny@dimoracustombikes.com
www.dimoracustombikes.com
Founder and CEO of DiMora Motorcar, Alfred DiMora offered, "In architecture the Natalia SLS 2 action affluence sedan, we accept been alive with the finest technologies, companies, and engineers in the apple to bear the ultimate in beat automotive engineering. We capital to action some of what we accept abstruse in an actual and accessible way by architecture what we apperceive will become the best motorcycles in the world."
When asked about his accommodation to barrage a motorcycle analysis and its timing, DiMora added, “This country was complete by inventors, antecedents and entrepreneurs. It is time we showed the apple what Americans can do again, and we don’t accept any time to waste.”
DiMora Custom Bikes will affectation three softail models at the show, which runs from December 4 to 6 in the Long Beach Convention Center. The DiMora 180 Night Move is a archetypal pro artery springer. The DiMora 250 Dragon’s Breath is an high ambit softail chopper. For the finest custom ride anywhere, the DiMora 300 ZTango is the ultimate simple addition softail chopper if amount is no object.
About DiMora Motorcar and DiMora Custom Bikes
Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles advised to beat expectations in every aspect of automotive engineering. It is the aboriginal auto aggregation to acknowledge the design, production, and testing of its automobiles via the Internet so that humans about the apple can apprentice about and participate in the process.
DiMora Custom Bikes takes the DiMora affection for abstruse addition and adherence to uncompromising above that are the hallmarks of the Natalia SLS 2 and brings them to the motorcycle world. Its articles will be accessible common through the DiMora banker arrangement now accepting established.
Alfred J. DiMora, architect and CEO, has produced two of America's finest affluence automobiles, the Clenet, as owner, and the Sceptre, as cofounder. When President Reagan declared 1986 the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-Powered Automobile, the Clenet was called as the Official Centennial Car, consistent in ceremoniousness for DiMora and the Clenet at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Michigan.
For added information, amuse appointment www.dimoramotorcar.com, and advancing soon, www.dimoracustombikes.com.
Lenny Meyer
DiMora Custom Bikes
820 Research Drive #4
Palm Springs, CA 92264
760-832-9070
lenny@dimoracustombikes.com
www.dimoracustombikes.com
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