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The Steiner Ranch Neighborhood in Austin Texas

June 2nd, 2010 No comments

The rolling terrain of Steiner Ranch provides beautiful panoramic views of the surrounding nature preserve as well as nearby Lake Travis and Lake Austin. The array of nearby entertainment and recreation for residents has made it one of Austin's most popular communities, and it has been repeatedly voted one of the best neighborhoods in the Austin area for several years running.

Neighborhood amenities include 6 neighborhood parks and 3 large community centers that feature pools, tennis courts, basketball courts, ball fields, picnic areas, pavilions, and numerous playgrounds for the kids. Within the community, there is also 800 acres of nature preserve and over 12 miles of nature trails to enjoy the outdoors. Steiner Ranch also features an amenity center on Lake Austin which includes boat docks, a pavilion, playgrounds, & several BBQ pits.

Steiner Ranch is home to the University of Texas Golf Club, an eighteen hole signature course located on 300 beautiful rolling acres in far West Austin. This course is home to the UT Varsity Golf Team. Bechtol Russell Golf Design created this golf course masterpiece. With dramatic rolling terrain and beautiful natural features, this course is certainly one of the best golf courses in all of Texas.

The neighborhood is served by the highly regarded Leander Independent School District. Children age children attend either Steiner Ranch or Laura Welch Bush Elementary, Canyon Ridge Middle School, and Cedar Park High School. The elementary and middle schools are all located right in the neighborhood, and many homes are within walking distance to the schools. These schools have consistently received the highest state academic ratings for the past several years.

Steiner Ranch consists of homes ranging from the low 200's to over 3 million with a mixture of resale and new construction options. Home vary is size from 1,600 to over 7,500 sq ft. Sierra Vista, Bellagio Estates, The Legends, Cliffside, and Eagles Glen are all custom home sections of the neighborhood, and many of the homes boast dazzling views of the lake and adjacent University of Texas Golf Course. If you prefer the lifestyle that condos offer, there are even some nice condo options to consider as well.

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MG and Austin to be Revived by Chinese Car Company

November 12th, 2009 No comments

The famous MG and Austin brands that generations of British car enthusiasts have been known, are to be revived on the Nanjing Automobile Corporation, located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.

The company acquired the assets of MG Rover in July for 50 million pounds. These assets include assembly lines, R & D equipment, and several brands of cars.

The project was approved by the Chinese government, so that is expected to go ahead and in production by early2007th The first model assumes Nanjing Auto to produce, the MG75. The company expects to 200,000 cars, 250,000 engines and 100,000 transmissions per year to produce.

Another Chinese company, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. recently bought the rights to the Rover 75, Rover 25 and its associated motors. So it looks like these venerable British brands can be revived in bankruptcy limbo after years of languishing.

** Symptomatic of emerging Chinese car –Industry

In many ways, this revival is the older western car models is also a return to former Chinese strategies and representatives of a movement into a new future. In the past, the domestic Chinese automotive market was virtually closed to imports to protect domestic production and sale of older, outdated and technically inferior cars.

But as the Chinese economy exploded in recent years, and the size of the middle class has grown exponentially, new customerswith cash were no longer content to ride on old cars. So instead of trying to not keep Chinese-made cars out of the country, the Chinese government started so that cars imported into the country, as long as were the foreign companies willing to invest in partnerships with Chinese companies.

** Successful Automobile Production

The result was the creation of one of the largest automobile manufacturer in the world industries in which it was 15 years ago there was very little production at all.In 1990, the entire vehicle production in China, 42,000 cars. In 2004 the country produced 2.3 million vehicles. And by 2007 its goal by more than 6 million vehicles overtaken Germany as the third largest vehicle manufacturer in the world.

In the past ten years, he has to crawl to the subject of a lot of time to the great demand by the economic miracle that has taken in China to be justified. In other words, the Chinese industry to operate without competition andRegulatory issues involved in exporting to countries like the U.S., Canada or Europe.

These questions are important. Ironically, the Chinese auto industry lacks a central organization that oversees all the major car manufacturers in order to be competitive. Auto plants around the world are designed to focus on certain products to be flexible enough to change products as required, and are closely integrated into a sophisticated system of coordination with sister plantsSuppliers.

All of this requires a degree of economy, communications, transportation and refinement, there is not yet in the rough and ready business world, developed in China.

** Will China soon a mass exporter of cars?

The development of significant domestic capacity has many of them assume that China finally starts the rest of the world saturated with cheap cars run – as they have done with other industrial goods. Some observers sayConsidering that it took Japan 20 years to gain a strong foothold in the U.S., and the Koreans have it in just 10 years, so one might expect the Chinese to do it in 5 or even fewer years.

But are the above-mentioned problems of organization and direction of significance. While consumers in the U.S., Europe and Japan may be willing to sacrifice a bit of quality at a lower price, it is unlikely that environmental regulations are relaxed in these countries can be in cheapVehicles.

There are also serious R & D lag in China. The Japanese and Koreans have been able to capture a significant portion of the market through the production of technologically advanced models and through the use of very strict quality control. But neither of these things are still prominent in the Chinese automotive industry.

Thus, while the production capacity in China is growing in the coming years, it is not clear that this can easily be translated into foreign sales.

Only time willtell.

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