CARMAKERS are forever looking for ways to keep customers coming back. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising. They slash prices. They throw in all sorts of options.
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SHANGHAI, April 2 (Reuters) - FAW Car 000800.SZ, a unit of
Chinese auto maker FAW Group Corp, said on Wednesday it planned
to invest 2.1 billion yuan ($300 million) in three projects to
boost its capacity and competitiveness.
FAW Car will spend 1.4 billion yuan to revamp its assembly
lines to produce Mazda Motor [...]
So skip the tricky names and labels — a new wagon, based on the fifth-generation Jetta sedan, is now arriving in VW dealers’ showrooms.It’s larger outside, has more room inside, plus all the European-inspired dynamics of the Jetta sedan that was redesigned in 2006 — and it’s $2,745 less than the starting price of its [...]
Indeed, there has been a renaissance in the Saturn lineup, starting with the boldly styled Sky roadster, the Aura sedan and the Outlook and redesigned Vue crossovers. Ironically, the Sky is now the oldest product wearing the Saturn badge, while the compact Astra is the youngster in the family.Already, the Astra is making such a [...]
CARMAKERS are forever looking for ways to keep customers coming back. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising. They slash prices. They throw in all sorts of options.
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Where Driving Has Its Rewards
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BRUSSELS, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Belgium’s largest car
distributor D’Ieteren (IETB.BR: Quote, Profile, Research) reported a 30.1 percent rise in
2007 pre-tax profit on Wednesday, with strong sales in its auto
division.
D’Ieteren, which has majority stakes in Europe’s biggest car
rental company Avis (AVE.L: Quote, Profile, Research) and vehicle glass repair business
Belron, posted [...]
By Blaise Robinson
PARIS, April 2 (Reuters) - European stocks rose in early
trade on Wednesday, adding to the previous session’s hefty gains
as optimism that the worst might be over in the global credit
crisis fuelled an extended rally in banking shares.
But the gains were limited by retreating auto stocks, on [...]
CARMAKERS are forever looking for ways to keep customers coming back. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising. They slash prices. They throw in all sorts of options.
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Where Driving Has Its Rewards
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“He said, ‘You’re a very unique individual. I have a car for you,’ ” Clark says. “I said, ‘If it interests me, I’ll take it.’ ” It took a year for Clark to make his way to Gunn’s Beddington home. Under plywood and a tarpaulin was a 1974 Volkswagen Thing. All it took for Clark [...]
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PARIS, April 2 (Reuters) - European equities were expected to rise on
Wednesday, extending the previous day’s sharp rally as investors’ optimism that
the worst of the credit crisis may be over continues to boost equity markets
worldwide.
At 0623 GMT June Stoxx50 futures STXEM8 were up [...]
