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...Even more strikingly, the five most successful German companies since 2003 — Siemens, SAP, Allianz, Mercedes-Benz and Deutsche Telekom — between them accounted for a remarkable 29.8 per cent of all value...
...Look out also for the 1980 Mercedes-Benz once owned by Diego Maradona, and the 2003 Gustav Troger Mirror Porsche – where the Austrian artist took a vintage 356 and covered it in shards of reflective glass...
...Faced with a chronic shortage of semiconductors due to the Covid-19 pandemic, manufacturers prioritised production of higher-end vehicles, helping the likes of Mercedes-Benz and VW post bumper profits despite...
...Their backgrounds are in fashion — they headed Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Kyiv, Ukraine — but their base in California and a fascination with augmented reality and digital spheres lead to the concept...
...Briefly Aston Martin has confirmed it is replacing Andy Palmer, the chief executive who led the luxury carmaker through its IPO, with the boss of the AMG performance arm of Mercedes-Benz, Tobias Moers....
...Plus non-limited-edition cars can be extremely affordable; a Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG, for example, can be had for £15,000, against £100,000 when new in the early 2000s....
...Daimler is splitting up Mercedes-Benz cars from Daimler Trucks and its financial arm, then placing the three divisions under the Daimler AG umbrella....
...More than 70 per cent of the 2.2m premium vehicles sold in China last year were German, led by Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz....
...After a collaboration with Mercedes-Benz on the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, which went on sale in 2003, McLaren Automotive was launched in 2010, producing small volumes of supercars to rival Ferrari and Aston...
...It was picked up by Barneys before being permanently launched in 2013 2013: Ackermann split from investors and his label became independent again July 2014: Worked on a Mercedes-Benz campaign with his...
...The epitome was Brazil’s then richest man, the brash former oil magnate Eike Batista, who was famously photographed grinning with boyish enthusiasm in front of a Mercedes-Benz MacLaren supercar parked in...
...Sales of Mercedes-Benz cars in Vietnam grew 43 per cent year-on-year in 2014, making it the second-fastest growing market for the German carmaker....
...Prices range from about $33,000 for the GLA250 sport utility vehicle to about $200,000 for a Mercedes-Maybach S600 ultra-luxury sedan....
...territory, which while coming in slightly under expectations at HK$63m (US$8.2m), saw a Tintin comic strip by Hergé, “The Blue Lotus” (1936) make HK$9.6m (US$1.25m) in a mixed sale that was headed by a 1961 Mercedes-Benz...
...The two-day sale, titled “From Paris to Hong Kong” includes just over 100 lots of European comics, a collection of objets de vertu, a vintage Mercedes-Benz, a Hermès handbag, decorative arts and modern and...
...While still trailing Volkswagen unit Audi, which got off to an earlier start in China, BMW has long enjoyed a comfortable lead over Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz division in China’s market for premium sedans....
...I’ve got a McLaren MP4-12C and a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren which I take to the racetrack and try to get faster. I’m not a thrill-seeker but I do like speed.” Photographs: David Severn...
...The strike by over 30,000 car workers has affected not just BMW: Nissan, Ford, General Motors and Mercedes Benz also have operations in South Africa that were hit....
...(Financial Times) Jaguar plans move into entry-level luxury vehicles market, competing with BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz....
...A number of companies including Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and Continental have experimented with self-driving car technology....
...The Model S, which starts from $62,400 inclusive of a $7,500 federal tax credit offered on all new EVs, trails only the Mercedes-Benz E-class and BMW 5-series in luxury car sales in California this year....
...Mercedes Benz recently announced a smaller investment – some 800m pesos – to build a new van model....
...But misfortune struck first on the home front, when his son Thor killed a cyclist last year while driving the family’s Mercedes-Benz McLaren sports car....
...More commonly found at auction is the Mercedes Benz 300 SL - early prototypes of which knocked Ferrari into third place at the 1952 La Carrera Panamerica race....
...Christoph Mueller, chief executive of Ireland’s Aer Lingus, put it like this: “In 1961, a first-class ticket from Frankfurt to New York and back cost the same as a new Mercedes-Benz 190D....
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