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...Eventually, his friend Henry Ford joined him....
...In the audience, a boy is riding a coin-operated truck, a model of the beaten-up Ford pick-up that helped cement Walton’s image as a frugal, quail-hunting man of the people even as he became America’s richest...
...Scaringe, who tried to compete with Tesla before switching to pick-up trucks, has absorbed the lesson....
...The white Ford Cortina is packed to the roof. It contains my mum, my dad, my brother, my sister and me....
...Rebecca Coleman has not owned a car since 1999....
...As a first step, the carmakers will work on pick-up truck and commercial vehicle projects, with the aim of launching new products in 2022, and increasing profits at both companies from 2023....
...“No System”(1999) is part of the display “Diaristic Photography and the Photobook” at Tate Modern, tate.org.uk....
...But in 1999 it followed the trend for separating cars and trucks by selling the former to Ford and subsequently buying Renault and Nissan’s heavy vehicles operations....
...In 1999, as the Nasdaq index shot to the sky, the share prices of new online financial media groups such as thestreet.com shot up with them....
...Volvo Cars was separated out of the listed Volvo Group, now a truckmaker and manufacturer of construction equipment, in 1999 and spent a decade struggling under Ford’s ownership....
...Volvo Cars was split out of the listed Volvo Group, now a truckmaker and manufacturer of construction equipment, in 1999 and spent a decade struggling under Ford’s ownership....
...Since the group sold off the car business to Ford in 1999, it has expanded in trucks via acquisition....
...Introduction of aluminium has allowed Ford to reduce the weight of the truck – North America’s best-selling vehicle for the last 32 years – by 13 per cent compared with the old, steel-bodied vehicle....
...Even the latest Escalade’s 17 mpg average fuel economy is a sharp improvement on the 13 mpg that the first, smaller version achieved in 1999....
...Automakers sold 16.5m new cars, sports utility vehicles and pick-up trucks in 2014 — 59 per cent more than in 2009, at the depth of the industry downturn, when the Obama administration was forced to put...
...When Ghosn arrived at Nissan in 1999, it was sitting on $20bn of debt and nearly $5bn in annual net losses....
...The roads were jammed with trucks and Ford pickups....
...Instead of disappearing, however, railroads embarked on a round of closing lossmaking lines and mergers, including the takeover in 1999 of Conrail by Norfolk Southern and CSX....
...The result is an alliance in which the two build sedans, trucks, engines and compact cars together....
...Ford recalled a total of 14.3m vehicles in eight separate notifications between 1999 and 2009 because of a faulty cruise-control system in several of its cars....
...On the other hand, Volvo Cars, sold off in 1999 to Ford, struggled for much of the period following the separation and is now owned by Chinese carmaker Geely....
...It has also pulled in truckmakers including Volkswagen and Man of Germany, Sweden’s Scania, and Ford trucks....
...Chrysler is the smallest of America’s three domestic carmakers, behind General Motors and Ford, and Fiat is Europe’s sixth-ranked group....
...The second-largest Detroit carmaker by sales said net profit for 2010 totalled $6.6bn, or $1.66 per share, the highest since 1999, when it made $7.2bn after tax....
...He will be remembered partly as the man who sold Volvo’s flagship car business to Ford in 1999 but, in an interview with the FT last year, he said it was the right decision....
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