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福特汽车公司和通用汽车公司决定共同开发六档自动变速箱。开发自动变速箱的成本可能会很高,而共同开发可以为两家公司节约数百万乃至上千万美元的资金,这是两家汽车制造业巨头首次进行此类合作。市场分析人士称,两家公司的首次合作标志着竞争进入了一个新纪元。此举将有助于降低两家公司自动变速箱的成本,使其价格变得比主要竞争对手更为低廉,从而使其昔日的主要竞争对手不再构成威胁。两公司2月14日说,已经于本月早些时候最终敲定了此项合作协议,该协议最初是
Ford Motor Company and General Motors decided to jointly develop a six-speed automatic transmission. The cost of developing an automatic transmission can be prohibitively high, and co-development can save millions or millions of dollars for both companies, the first such two automakers to collaborate. Market analysts say the first cooperation between the two companies marks a new era in competition. The move will help lower the cost of automatic transmissions for both companies to make them cheaper than their main competitors, leaving their former major rivals no longer a threat. The two companies said on February 14 that they had finalized the cooperation agreement earlier this month, initially