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UNIT 4

Which of the Big 3 was first to adopt a Japanese robotic and inventory system?
Correct Answer: 	
Chrysler, in its Windsor plant

Question 2

The story of the horseless carriage, as the automobile was originally known, begins not in North America but in ?
Correct Answer: 	
Europe

Question 3
	
In the year ? Chrysler and Mercedes-Benz merged to form DaimlerChrysler, splitting up again in 2007.
Correct Answer:
1998

Question 4

Mercedes registered as a trademark. March 1, ?
Correct Answer:
1902

Question 5

In ? Maserati was bought by Fiat  from de Tomasoin.
Correct Answer:
1993

Question 6

In 1860, a French engineer named Etienne Lenoir invented an internal combustion engine that used illuminating gas for fuel and an electric spark for ignition. It was used to drive machinery and became the ?
Correct Answer:
first commercial gas engine

Question 7

The AutoPact contains safeguards requiring that A. P. T. A. producers in Canada maintain levels of assembly in Canada related to the value of their ? here.
Correct Answer:
sales

Question 8
	
In 1909 Henry Ford sold over ? Model Ts -a staggering figure in those days.
Correct Answer:
10,000

Question 9

In the year ? General Motors and Chrysler  passed into bankruptcy and were restructured.
Correct Answer:
2009

Question 10

In the year ?  Volvo cars is sold to Ford
Correct Answer: 
1999

Question 11

In Canada we manufacture ______ cars for each one we sell domestically.
Correct Answer:
2

Question 12

In the early 1900's when a car owner needed a part, he ordered it from the factory. When it arrived, he took it to a  ?, who then tried to fit it as best he could. Very few parts were completely interchangeable. This type of system might have worked in the horse and buggy era, but for complicated machines like the automobile, it was a definite problem.
Correct Answer:
blacksmith

Question 13

Canadians spent ? on vehicle maintenance and repair services in 2010, according to the J.D.
Power and Associates 2010 Canadian Customer Commitment Index Study
Correct Answer: 
$9.8 billion

Question 14

The Cadillac Motor Car Company installed the Kettering ? on its 1912 models and was again awarded the Dewar Trophy. The traveling public was pleased and the industry soon adopted Ketterings system.
Correct Answer:
self-starter

Question 15

In 1898 Latil (France) made front wheel drive units and then?
Correct Answer:
4 x 4

Question 16

What is the average lifespan of a vehicle today?
Correct Answer:
225,000 km

Question 17

Chrysler was founded in the year?
Correct Answer: 
1925

Question 18

Olds production methods were the first steps in the development of a ? He placed the frame of a car on a movable stand and passed it down a line of workmen who added parts, until the car was completed.
Correct Answer:
modern assembly line

Question 19

While Model T sales soared to almost a quarter million cars in 1914, Ford gradually reduced the price from $950 to $490. By 1925 the basic price of his car had been lowered to ?
Correct Answer:
$290

Question 20

The majority of auto sector workers (?) have at least some post-secondary training, most in trades specific
areas. A further 29% of workers have a high school diploma. Approximately one fifth of
the sector workforce (18%) has not completed high school.
Correct Answer:
53%