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...Land Rover, a standout winner from this trend, has no plans to make low-riding limousines. Off-road vehicles were created for the battlefield and farm....
...Notable lookalikes include Geely’s GE limousine, which features a Rolls-Royce-style figurine atop the grille, and Shuanghuan’s CEO, which bears close similarity to the BMW X5....
...And the lucky ones might even get driven to a premiere in an Uber limousine. ● Muscle car maniacs have plenty to celebrate at the moment....
...Uber’s Asia strategy echoes its original launch in the US as a high-priced car service providing limousines “on demand” via a smartphone app....
...The extended Range Rover puts JLR in a limousine market traditionally controlled by the likes of Rolls-Royce and Bentley, while the trend towards SUVs has seen traditional sports car brands such as Porsche...
...These ridesharing services may find it easier to build a network in smaller cities than Uber, which largely relies on fleets of limousines and taxis to provide its service....
...The software told me when the car would come, showed me the likely route and deducted the fare from a credit card....
...“Having the British tradition selling our cars gives us a real edge over German manufacturers, for example,” he said....
...turnround stories go, this a very post-colonial one, with a script that could have been written by Danny Boyle: an ageing dowager of an SUV brand (Land Rover) and an older gentleman who makes executive limousines...
...Instead, he lets slip the odd morsel like 3,538 (total cars built last year, which was a record) or 4.9, the number of seconds it takes for a Ghost limousine to hit 60 miles an hour, from zero....
...VW also named a new CEO at its UK luxury limousine brand Bentley, and a new technical boss for its Czech bargain brand Skoda....
...SAIC, and FAW are also trying another approach – going even further down the Chinese route by relaunching an old brand – the Beijing brand (which previously made jeeps), the Shanghai brand, and Red Flag limousines...
...Several of China’s leading carmakers are relaunching brands from the past, including Mao Zedong’s famous Red Flag limousine, in a bid to capitalise on nostalgia for an era when China made very few cars –...
...Citroën previewed its plans for a stretch limousine targeting China with the Metropolis concept, shown at the Shanghai World Expo two years ago....
...Rolls-Royce Motor Cars reported the best annual sales in its history, led by booming demand for its luxury limousines in China....
...car market....
...The UK producer of big luxury limousines plans to present a proposal to its owner Volkswagen’s board in the first half of this year to launch an SUV that would be the most expensive on the four-by-four market...
...Bentley, which is reporting higher sales this year after seeing demand for its cars decimated during the financial crisis, is best known for making plush high-end limousines, particularly favoured by British...
...Cars meet them at the plane and staff collect bags and passport stamps while they wait in the lounge....
...“We are market leaders with our S, E and C-class limousines. So it is obvious which market position we are due in the small premium car segment,” Mr Zetsche said....
...One of the most powerful answers came this week when Daimler, the maker of Mercedes-Benz luxury limousines, agreed to swap equity stakes and share swathes of its prized technology with Renault and Nissan...
...car buyers....
...It’s a warm day in northern China, but it’s cool inside our BMW limousine as it pulls out of the carpark at a new biodiesel plant in Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province....
...Americans are returning to their SUVs, while the Chinese are increasingly giving up their bicycles for motorcycles and then cars....
...Apart from a real Bentley, or Rolls-Royce’s Phantom limousine, I cannot think of any car with as much intimidating on-road “presence” as the Chrysler....
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