German Car Manufacteurs are worlwide the most innovatives

I think it is a good time to also present some things about Germany on my blog. Therefor I have read an excellent Article and translated it into english...Enjoy it!

Research: German carmanufateurs are worldwide the most innovatives

The German car manufactures are allowed to boast themself with a high Power of Innovation. In comparison to their foreign competition, they placed/rolled out an extraordinary amount of novelties and improvements on the market. Their technological Advance pays the multicorporate enterprises off/back.

Frankfurt/Bergisch Gladbach(Germany) – Considering  the Amount of Innovation, German Car Manufactures have outshined/surpassed the foreign competitors and rivals. According to a current research of the “Center of Automotive Management (CAM)”, there were in total 791 innovations placed worldwide on the market last year by 18 of this research analyzed car manufactures from all over the world.  307 or almost 40 % of those innovations belongs to German car manufactures.

“The situation of German Car manufactures in the global competition of Innovations is at the present time excellent/outstanding”, was said on this Friday by the leader of this survey, Mr. Stefan Bratzel. With the help and possibilities of increasingly growing and more flexible technical construction sets and configurations, the new customers’ requirements can be served and apprehended more and more fast.

The Joy on Innovations has an immediate impact on the turnover. Looking at the numbers and data of the consultancy “PricewaterhouseCoopers – PwC”, the turnover of cars shrinked about 7,8 % in Europe in the year 2012. Thus, “BMW” and “Mercedes-Benz” could stabilize their numbers of sales/turnover, even “Audi” raised/enhanced their numbers of sales/turnover about 3,7 %. “Volkswagen” reached an significantly accrual about 35% considering the sales and turnover in the American Market, even when the car market in the United States of America increased its turnover of 13,4 %.

Mr. Felix Kuhnert, leader of the department “Automotive” of PwC in Germany and Europe, mentioned, that the Manufactures strengthen especially the branch of compact cars by introducing a lot of new Models and Variations as well as with new innovative Features.

Mr. Stefan Bratzel brings up the argument of an “industrial democratization of innovations”, because there were more and more Novelties introduced and used also in the sales branch of lower-middle-class cars. For the first time, it is possible that several Car-Assistant systems as an active “Lane Departure Warning System – LDW”, a “Brake-controlled Parking Assist System” or an “Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC)” with an integrated Stop-and-go-Function are available in this sales branch.

The Center of Automotive Management provides an own database which lists/contains an overview about all Innovations related to the technical achievements of cars. According to their own indications, there are more than 5000 new Innovations listed including several years from the past to now.

Cst/dpa ( Deutsche Presse Agentur )

Source:http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/studie-deutsche-automarken-bei-innovationen-weltweit-fuehrend-a-894040.html

Access: Wednesday, the 17th of April 2013

Don't Worry - Be Angry Part II

Don't Worry - Be Angry Part II

Try II - Adapting to the Finnish Culture

Hei!
As you could get an interesting image on the my journy to adapting into the finnish culture from my last blog post,  I would like to continue the essential parts and ideas of the finnish culture.

"We are in Finnland...we don't smile..." said by one of Henna-Emilia's relatives. Interesting point, is that an impact of the darkness, the heavy metal and the cold in combination? Is Finland and its people that straight and not able to take any humour? Or are we other Europeans just annormal?

Well nowadays, there is the light,  and the cold is trying to escape from Finland...

Yes, Trust your eyes...it is +2 °C...YIPPIEAH... Spring is coming...

And yes I know, don't bother me guys, I know that you are all right there having some amazing warm hot BBQ, laying lazy in the sun and wearing t-shirts and short pants, while I am running with my winter jacket, Winterboots, (winter)-Scarf, (Winter)-Cap.. maybe I should stop mentioning Winter..because the sun is shining now in Rovaniemi, Volbeat and Stone Sour came up with a new Album :) and everything seems to be totally perfect!

Let's see how the reaction will be according to the Sun.
Some People just enjoy the sun...

... and I hope that the reaction of the finnish people to the sun does not appear like the following...

" We don't let the cold go... No.... Never xD " :D

Oh no.. they stole our precious...

So, coming up to another essential part of the finnish culture, besides Sauna,  is the so called Ice-Fishing.

to be continued...

Switch off the Darkness in Finland! - Part I

Switch off the Darkness in Finland!

Try 1: Adapting to the Finnish Culture

On my way to adapt more successfully into the finish culture, I ve just completed three new steps, on which I want to report to you!

Well I ll assume that you all know the "Tour-de-France", or the Formula 1 GP, when all the communities and states are closing the streets and preparing them for the specialized sporting event.

A few weeks ago, the streets of Rovaniemi were closed...not for Bicycle-Sport, no Motorsports..real Horsepower, or should I admit real Deer Power :D...

Welcome to the Reindeer Race of Rovaniemi!...Only can be seen in Finland. I ll guess we normal Europeans have different tastes in Sports and cultural events :P

But no worries :) Finland still belongs to Europe, and has of course, typical geographical elements representing the weather of the seasons...

As you hopefully have read on my blog, the typical finnish winter represents as the following:

Starting from Oktober, moving on of November, December, January, until February... Darkness rules the Nature and Social Life...

but then suddenly...the sun is shining again, and all the people in Finland wake up and realize, Hey... it's definetely to light in here :)

It is really impressive, how the situation of light can affect people's life. In the winter time, it was not that easy to always motivate myself, you just loose your motivation in everything, being tired all day(if you can speak of a day when there is almost no light available).. and then:

As someone has switched on the light... The sun rises nowadays in the Morning from around 5.00 am,  and stays light until 7.30 pm

Isn't that a little bit strange? As the nature just meant to play a trick on humanity :)

Okay...Well I see the consideration in the temperatures,  -15°C with the wind in Rovaniemi is not that really warm weather to sit outside, have some BBQ, cold Beers and enjoy sunbathing...

Taking Sun...The Finnish Way

 But you can always dream[ sunbathing with a winterjacked, scarf, and of course the sunglasses], and for example today..it was +1 °C, a new sensation to celebrate, I almost have no snow on my balcony anymore, except the 75 cm high snow hills on the corners of my balcony :P

One next step closer on adapting to the finnish culture, you definetely need some snacks for coffee... so Henna and I have made our own "Pulla" :)

...which is very excellent to have while inviting Friends for Coffe :)

Tomorrow, You ll find here on this Blog a new report about more typical finnish features like

ICEFISHING

and

Snow Mobile Safari

Have a nice day!