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...The proposed deal is the latest sign of how rugby is following the trajectory of other sports, such as football, baseball, motor racing and basketball....
...Others sported certificates from motor vehicle registries in Colorado and Texas. With their legal status now clear in China, parallel car imports are surging....
...Executives at the Paris Motor Show are clear that premium car sales are holding up a lot better than Europe’s embattled mass-market sector....
...for the planned combination with Europe’s largest carmaker to form an automotive group with 10 brands that would range from premium carmaker Audi to luxury sports car maker Lamborghini and mass-market marque...
...Operating profit at the group’s core brand, VW, was crimped by 79 per cent to €561m, in spite of the marque benefiting hugely from European scrapping incentive programmes....
...Although it is better known overseas for its forays into cars, particularly its acquisition last year of British marques Jaguar and Land Rover, two-thirds of Tata Motors’ earnings come from its robust truck...
...It is he from whom Claudio Ranieri, coach of Turin’s lately flagging Juventus football club, makes clear he takes his orders....
...Collaborations between prestige car marques and luxury watchmakers have proved popular and successful in recent years, but could the days of such partnerships be numbered now that sales of high-end automobiles...
...Tata Motors and the main trade union at Jaguar and Land Rover will meet in London on February 8 following signs that Ford Motor’s talks to sell the two marques are nearing an agreement....
...Ford Motor has set a deadline of this Friday for second round bids to purchase Jaguar, the luxury marque used to ferry British government ministers to meetings....
...The brand and its sister Jaguar marque, which their owner Ford Motor wants to sell, are investing £700m ($1.43bn) in CO2 improvements in their five-year business plan, with most of the money earmarked for...
...Tata Motors of India appears to be the most likely contender while Renault Nissan of France is thought to have backed away and Hyundai of South Korea said it had “no interest” in buying another brand....
...’s shortlist to buy Jaguar and Land Rover, its UK luxury marques....
...Revelations that Tata Motors was planning to target marques such as Jaguar and Land Rover, which together lost £159m ($318m) before tax last year at their core UK operations, have left even long-standing...
...A second former head of Ford Motor has entered the bidding for Jaguar and Land Rover, the US carmaker’s two UK premium marques....
...Tata Motors of India is also in the fray, Ratan Tata, head of the Tata Group, said last week....
...Analysts in Mumbai are split on the merits of the deal for Tata Motors....
...Cerberus, the private equity group that has just bought Chrysler, is now voicing interest in a possible bid for one or both of Ford Motor’s two UK luxury brands – Land Rover and Jaguar....
...The company is also trying to make its upmarket Cadillac, offroad Hummer and cheap Chevrolet marques into global brands, although both Cadillac and Chevy will sell vehicles specific to certain regions....
...What irritates many investors and analysts is that only two weeks ago at the Frankfurt motor show the company promised to use its cash to invest in its own marques....
...One of his first acts as chief executive was to kill the Oldsmobile marque, GM's oldest nameplate....
...When Maserati reached its 90th birthday two weeks ago, the venerable Italian sports car marque should have been celebrating....
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