Did you know that by making sure that your car tyres are inflated properly, you can reduce your fuel bill and ensure the rubber lasts longer due to fact there is less friction between the rubber compound and the road when the car tyres are correctly inflated. When it comes to 4×4 driving, my personal experience has been that most Michelin car tyres are quite average. My four-wheeled beast swears by Bridgestone, which were purchased from cheap 4×4 tyres.

Car tyres are checked for safety by measuring the tread. They are made of a special and very resilient type of rubber. Car tyres are flat with more surface area, whereas bike tyres are more curved to get us round corners quicker and with more grip. It should go without saying, but if you know that your car tyres are worn, then you need to replace them as soon as you can to prevent an accident. This is important because if the car tyres are very worn, the film of water on the road builds up in front of them and underneath them and actually lifts them off road surface.

General Motors which is also known by it’s short name of GM is an American based automobile manufacturer and the main rival of Ford Motor Company. It like Ford is based in Detroit Michigan. It was founded in 1908 and it now hires over 320,000 employees and turns over almost $200 billion dollars a year but it currently in a bit of financial trouble. In 2005, it shed over 25,000 employees.

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Everyone knows the story of Ford and the founder Henry Ford. Ford is based in Dearborn, Michigan in Detroit America. It was founded by Henry Ford in 1903. Ford is now one of the largest producers of automobiles in the world with revenue exceeding $177 Billion dollars. They employ over 350,000 people all over the world.

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Ferrari is one of the most well known car manufacturers in the world. I do not know of anyone who has not dreamed of one day owning a Ferrari of their very own. The symbol of the Ferrari is the majestic black prancing horse that is seen on all Ferrari cars.

Ferrari is an Italian company based in Maranello. It was founded in 1929 by Enzo Ferrari and it was known as Scuderia Ferrari. It did not start as a car manufacturer for the streets, but a race car manufacturer. It was not until 1946 that they decided to start selling street legal cars all around the world.

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Everyone knows the Chevrolet or Chevy brand name. It is just another one of the many brands of automobile makers under the GM or General Motors umbrella. Chevrolet is the best selling brand name for General Motors. It out sold Ford in 2005 making it the best selling car brand in the United States.

There are currently 19 different models of the Chevrolet on the market, ranging from the compact car to the ever popular and growing range of SUV’s in the market already today. It has the best selling car in the United States under its brand with the Impala and the highest selling SUV brand with the Tahoe.

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The Cadillac has been a big seller for General Motors who owns the brand Cadillac. Sales outside North America however have been terrible with little to no interest, mainly due to its size and design. Cadillac is however a luxury car. It has been compared to the Rolls Royce.

Cadillac has a long history with its first car being produced in October 1902. It had over 2000 sales in the first year which for the times were a lot of orders. General Motors purchased the company outright in 1909 and became a prestige division there on after.

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Chrysler was an independent automobile manufacturer until 1998 when it was brought out and put under the Daimler-Benz banner. It is now known as Daimler-Chrysler. The Chrysler corporation first started in 1925 and was formed by Walter Percy Chrysler.

Chrysler is the company that created the Plymouth brand of automobiles. That brand was manufactured from 1928 all the way to 2001 with significant design changes and technology advances in between. Plymouth is one of the longest serving brand of car ever manufactured.

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BMW is one of the best known car brands in the world and probably the best known German car brand. BMW is known for its luxury cars at an affordable price and first started manufacturing cars in 1913. It was far from being the first automobile maker in Germany, but became famous very quickly.

BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG or in an English translation, Bavarian Motor Works. It is the biggest manufacturer of luxury cars in the world. They also make luxury motorcycles as well. BMW is also the parent company of the BMW MINI and the Rolls Royce car brands.

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Audi is another in a long history of German automobile makers. The Germans seem to produce car companies at the drop of a hat. Their headquarters are at Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Audi is a wholly owned subsidiary of the famous Volkswagen company. Audi’s catch phrases or slogans are “progression through technology” and “never follow”.

Audi did not have the happiest of beginnings. Audi was first started in 1899 by August Horch and was not called Audi at that time. It was, of course, called Horch Automobiles and the first car rolled off the very primitive production line in 1901.

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Acura automobiles has been around for 20 years. 2006 is their 20th anniversary of being in business in the Japanese market. Acura is of course known as the first Japanese car automaker to sell a range of luxury performance cars to the United States which it started doing in 1986.

Acura has been big into research and development with their cars, coming up with some intuitive models, designs and technologies only available to the Acura car range. Things like Super Handling All Wheel Drive and Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control have set Acura apart from the mass of other Japanese car manufacturers.

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