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...When Porsche announced that it would move into SUVs with the Cayenne in the early 2000s many said that the brand had compromised its soul....
...Charles Sheeler’s 1927 ode to Ford’s River Rouge factory quivers with Olympian power....
...Rival GM plans to follow the GMC Hummer, which revives the name of the archetypal early 2000s gas-guzzler, with an electric version of the Chevrolet Silverado....
...Deciding to renew its ageing fleet, the company acquired a bunch of sedans just as Americans were switching wholesale to SUVs. The move was driven less by business logic than by financial necessity....
...The white Ford Cortina is packed to the roof. It contains my mum, my dad, my brother, my sister and me....
...Car trouble The group’s stronghold in British industry was cemented with the 2008 purchase of Jaguar Land Rover from Ford by Tata Motors....
...Honda announced on Tuesday that it will close its plant in Swindon in 2021 while Nissan earlier this month cancelled plans to produce a diesel SUV model in Sunderland....
...Even after strong recovery in recent years, the 17.33m vehicle sales in 2015 are still short of the record of 17.35m sales in 2000....
...Redmond O’Hanlon was a kind of 1980s Newby, tapping into the comedy of terror on excursions deep into some of the world’s remotest jungles....
...Most Indians know the brand for its sleeker SUVs that race through the streets of cities such as Mumbai (its headquarters) and New Delhi. 2013 Sindicato Antioqueño, Colombian business group, based in Medellín...
...Just over one in five vehicles sold by Ford in Europe, a market historically dominated by smaller cars and saloons, were SUVs, the company said....
...It started operating a plant in the Philippines in 2015 that it had acquired from Ford Motor....
...Ford announced a 13.6 per cent rise in SUV sales for its Ford and Lincoln brands and a 13 per cent rise for pickups....
...Carmakers sold 17.5m vehicles in the US in 2015, breaking a previous sales record set as long ago as 2000....
...The seasonally-adjusted annual rate of sales for October was 18.1m, meaning the market could beat the record 17.4m light vehicle sales achieved in 2000....
...In 2000, Ford faced controversy over the safety of tyres on the Explorer involving a series of deaths. Ford’s shares closed 1.4 per cent higher at $16.54 but slipped to $16.49 in after-hours trading....
...Similarly, a second factory in Ningbo in 2000 produced “very poor product, poor quality”....
...These cars were intended to win back US customers who had stopped buying GM’s SUVs and pick-up trucks as fuel prices rose, in favour of fuel-efficient Toyotas and Volkswagens....
...Things are especially tough for cheaper SUVs and compact sedan cars, says RC Bhargava, chairman of Maruti Suzuki, which has 42 per cent of India’s market....
...In addition, Ken Czubay, Ford’s North American marketing chief, said that improved fuel-consumption technology has brought buyers back to pickups and SUVs....
...And two of the biggest 1990s gas guzzlers, the Hummer and the Ford Excursion, are now extinct. The latest trends differ from Americans’ stampede to Japanese cars in the 1980s and 1990s....
...Ford halted production of its biggest SUV, the V10 Excursion, in 2005, and has discontinued the Explorer’s eight-cylinder version....
...The car’s long rise ended in 2000, when sales of new cars peaked at 17.4m in the country designed for them, the US....
...The two models most closely identified with that era – General Motors’ Hummer and Ford’s huge Excursion – are no longer in production....
...And because both vans and passenger versions are essentially the same under the skin, the huge production volumes involved – well over a million Doblos in all forms have been sold since its launch in 2000...
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