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...intuitive sense: from its early days in Japan to becoming one the biggest fads of the late ’90s, it has defied the doubters by maintaining massive commercial momentum across a wide range of products (a 2004...
...Jaguar Land Rover, Volvo and Mazda skipped the 2018 show, followed a year later by Mercedes-Benz and BMW....
...Between 2004 and 2016, Statista estimates that retail sales of products certified by Fairtrade International rose by nearly 10 times, from €830mn to €7.9bn....
...The net profits of the DAX 30 companies have increased on average by 8.1 per cent a year since 2004 (I use 2004 as starting point to avoid the distortions that the bursting of the internet bubble in the...
...Huge adventure motorcycles took off as a result of the global tours completed by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman in 2004 and 2007....
...Pointing to the inroads it has made even in Europe’s luxury car markets, Lutz says: “This is why Mercedes-Benz and BMW are so afraid of him.”...
...“It is more BMW than Bentley.”...
...BMW and Daimler each sell more than 2m cars a year and both hope for a quarter of their sales to be electric cars by 2025....
...Sales in China, BMW’s largest and most profitable market, surged more than 31 per cent in the quarter to the end of September compared with the same period in 2019....
...The fortunes of ITM, which listed on London’s Aim market in 2004, illustrate the frenzy around hydrogen, which is already used extensively in industries such as petrochemicals....
...capability that means they can be taken to more remote areas and unmettled tracks – their popularity exploded after the Long Way Round and Long Way Down trips made by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman [in 2004...
...Honda unsuccessfully tried to sue Chinese group Shuanghuan Auto in 2004 for allegedly copying its CR-V vehicle....
...“This affects BMW 3 Series models manufactured between December 2004 and July 2011. BMW has notified the DVSA this morning of its intention to recall and will begin the recall process immediately.”...
...Now the city supplies Tesla, BMW and VW, making it a vital node on the global electric car supply chain — the 21st-century equivalent of the refineries, pipelines and ships that supported the age of oil-based...
...That is a challenge for BMW, Daimler, the parent of Mercedes, and VW, which have all staked their future growth on China, the world’s largest car market....
...GAM’s interim CEO was fired from Merrill for supervision failing (FT) CBS denies Les Moonves $120m payout after assault claims (FT) Ola invests $100m in scooter sharing startup Vogo (FT) Microsoft and BMW...
...In 2004, her husband Reese Martin, a fellow mountaineer, died in a para-gliding event in Washington State at the age of 49. Long before she died, Fox had said she would never climb Everest again....
...Soon there will be a 20 per cent tariff on the BMWs, VWs and Mercedes coming into the US, the president has decided....
...“I call it the 1,000 components of a BMW — you have to go along with a notebook and write down all the little things,” he says....
...German rivals Daimler and BMW are working on new plants in Hungary. However, the region’s ability to supply workers to keep those factories ticking over is approaching its limits....
...(The quote comes from Michael Klare’s book Blood and Oil, which gives a valuable overview of US-Saudi relations, even if changes since it was published in 2004 now make its forward-looking arguments seem...
...Audi has begun using the country as the centre for global production of the Q5 premium SUV, while BMW is also opening a plant to produce 3-series sedans for the global market there....
...UK-based springs and wire-forms manufacturer William Hughes was an early entrant to the automotive parts industry in Bulgaria with the establishment of a facility near Plovdiv in 2004....
...The UK-based manufacturer has been absent from elite motor racing since 2004, when the Jaguar Formula One team was sold to Red Bull....
...The average value of cars exported from the UK has doubled over the past decade, from £10,200 in 2004 to £21,900 last year....
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