Then he explained that BMW would include a year's free satellite service (worth more than $100) with factory installation.
Now that Sirius is available as a standard factory installation in Ford vehicles, Swinburne said subscriber additions could reach 9.54 million, versus his previous estimate of 9.14 million.
In addition, the centennial automaker is targeting up to 20 vehicle lines for factory installation for the 2006 and 2007 model years.
Factory installations are shoddy, workers locked in and lead times are too tight". It remains to be seen whether consumers will tolerate the usual excuses from brands.
In the worst cases, like at the once-sprawling Cardio Foam mattress factory, installations have been cannibalized by laid-off workers.
From 1944 in liberated areas, responding to promulgated slogans, workers spontaneously took over existing factory installations, established workers' councils, undertook reconstruction, activation and production.
Elsewhere, sculptural steel skating shelters, designed by the Vancouver firm Patkau Architects, sit majestically in the center of a circular, skating-rink-like space while the surreal "Wasp Factory," an installation by the production designer (and longtime Comme des Garçons collaborator) Michael Howells takes over the top floor.
The flying machine, powered by a small electrical motor contained within the balloon, looks like something Terry Gilliam might have dreamed up during his Monty Python days, or one of the late artist Chris Burden's airplane factory art installations.
He said the price of carbon had been rising, and that would prompt factories and installations covered by the system to move toward cleaner power generation, such as burning natural gas instead of coal.
