Honda Ridgeline

Honda’s rave reputation held steady when the Honda Ridgeline was introduced in 2005. This truck’s special, one-piece body makes it a strong, safe, and light machine. Bright photos and fascinating facts fill this title about Honda’s popular truck.

To some, Honda might be synonymous with small, fuel-efficient cars. But the Honda Ridgeline shows that times are changing. This adaptable truck has all kinds of modern features and is available in many models, including one for racing! Readers hit the road with the history of Honda in this book, engaging with past trucks and the best of what Honda has to offer today. Full-color photographs of Honda trucks big and small complement the accessible text written for readers of all levels.

This book guides readers through the maintenance and repair of their Honda pilot, ridgeline or acura.

For decades there have been two iconic Japanese auto companies. One has been endlessly studied and written about. The other has been generally underappreciated and misunderstood. Until now. Since its birth as a motorcycle company in 1949, Honda has steadily grown into the world's fifth largest automaker and top engine manufacturer, as well as one of the most beloved, most profitable, and most consistently innovative multinational corporations. What drives the company that keeps creating and improving award-winning and bestselling models like the Civic, Accord, Odyssey, CR-V, and Pilot? According to Jeffrey Rothfeder - the first journalist allowed behind Honda's infamously private doors - what truly distinguishes Honda from its competitors, especially archrival Toyota, is a deep commitment to a set of unorthodox management tenets. The Honda Way, as insiders call it, is notable for decentralization over corporate control, simplicity over complexity and unyielding cynicism toward the status quo and whatever is assumed to be the truth - ideas embedded in the DNA of the company by its colourful founder Soichiro Honda, sixty-five years ago. With dozens of interviews of Honda executives, engineers,and frontline employees, Rothfeder shows how the company has developed and maintained its unmatched culture of innovation, resilience, and flexibility - and how it exported that culture to other countries that are strikingly different from Japan, establishing locally controlled operations in each region where it lays down roots. For instance, Rothfeder reports on life at a Honda factory in the tiny town of Lincoln, Alabama. When the American workers were trained to follow the Honda Way as a self-sufficient outpost of the global company, their plant pioneered a new model for manufacturing in America. As Soichiro Honda himself liked to say, "Success can be achieved only through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents one percent of your work, which results only from the ninety-nine percent that is called failure."

As Toyota skids into an ocean of problems and uncertainty continues in the U.S. automotive industry, Lemon-Aid Used Cars and Trucks 20112012 shows buyers how to pick the cheapest and most reliable vehicles from the past 30 years. Lemon-Aid guides are unlike any other car and truck books on the market. Phil Edmonston, Canada’s automotive Dr. Phil for 40 years, pulls no punches. Like five books in one, Lemon-Aid Used Cars and Trucks is an expos of car scams and gas consumption lies; a do-it-yourself service manual; an independent guide that covers beaters, lemons, and collectibles; an archive of secret service bulletins granting free repairs; and a legal primer that even lawyers cant beat! Phil delivers the goods on free fixes for Chrysler, Ford, and GM engine, transmission, brake, and paint defects; lets you know about Corvette and Mustang tops that fly off; gives the lowdown on Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota engines and transmissions; and provides the latest information on computer module glitches.

Pt. 1. Innovation. Honda's predisposition towards radical and disruptive innovations / W. David Holford and Mehran Ebrahimi. Innovation capability reconfiguration in business transition : a case study on Taiwanese PC firm / Ting-Kuei Kuo and Tim Minshall. The emergence of wireless networks / Wenshin Chen and David Bennett -- pt. 2. R&D. Technology strategy of R&D internationalization : an empirical study from a developing country / Louis Y. Y. Lu and T. M. Chen. Russian R&D organisations : cases of international technology collaboration / Anna Trifilova -- pt. 3. Services. Building a global electronic manufacturing service provider : vendor's process in outsourcing / Zoran Perunović and Mads Christoffersen. Support services in developing technology b-to-b relationships / Juha-Pekka Koistinen and Pekka Eskola. Designing rapid services for competitive manufacturing / Deepak A. Sachdev and Darius P. K. Singh -- pt. 4. Industry. Productivity assessment of implementing wireless technologies in steel construction using simulation technology / Amine Ghanem. Next generation PLM - an integrated approach for the development and management of the product service systems in the telecommunications industry / Julius Golovatchev and Oliver Budde. Ranking management of technology conferences / Harm-Jan Steenhuis and Eerik J. de Bruijn -- pt. 5. Management. An empirical study of information system for disruption management / R. Abdi and S. Sharma. Technology management : best practises of the South African automotive supplier industry / Marthinus P. Fick and André J. Buys. Assessing and improving project management information system in a multi national company / Omar Khalifa Gneiber and Gebril Mohamed Zletni. Management of technology support center for enhancing competitiveness of small and medium enterprises in Egypt / Yasser Tawfik and Tarek Khalil -- pt. 6. Community. Authorities, hubs, and brokers in communities of practices / Marianne Hörlesberger and Petra Wagner-Luptacik. Does a favorable environment have a positive effect on university technology transfer activities? : a case study on two Texas state universities / Michi Fukushima.