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...Vertu picked up garage group Helston in December, which the board still expects to deliver over £3mn of synergies in 2025, and also bought two BMW Motorrad sites....
...Nintendo’s USA wing, after some discussion about whether the kids in America would enjoy a slow RPG game, shifted the titles stateside and in other Western markets, as Red and Blue, in 1998....
...The president of the VDA, which counts Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz as members, said she feared an exodus of German small and midsized suppliers....
...“The USA has recognised what they have to do for their [country] — Germany and Europe must do the same”, she said, in reference to the US Inflation Reduction Act, which includes $369bn of subsidies for green...
...“We cannot have a situation where the USA rolls out the red carpet for [sustainable aviation fuel] producers while Europe rolls out nothing but red tape.”...
...Marlene Dietrich brought her violin, Gunter Sachs cruised the beaches on a BMW Motorrad and footballer Günter Netzer became a regular at Fährhaus Sylt, a five-star hotel overlooking the tidelands....
...The “i Vision Circular” even replaces the colourful BMW logo with an engraving to cut the use of plastic....
...“In our three main markets — Europe, China and USA — only a small fraction of people and of our customers live in these super-urban areas,” he continued....
...BMW said Hams Hall has since started making engines bound for the USA, and that the site, which produces about 380,000 engines a year and employs 1,000 people, has not lost any work in total....
...In recent weeks, the Department of Justice has launched a competition investigation into Ford, Honda, BMW and Volkswagen, which have all said they will comply with the tougher Californian standards....
...Peter Schwarzenbauer who oversaw the Mini and Rolls-Royce brands, as well as BMW Motorrad, is leaving the company at his own request in October....
...Peugeot owner PSA and BMW have pulled ahead of Volkswagen to lead auto emissions reductions under Europe’s new CO2 regime....
...That is about 7 per cent of BMW’s equivalent figure. Globally, German brands have undisputed control of the high-end market....
...VW said the “main reason” for this decline is a “reluctance to buy on the part of Chinese customers as a result of the continuing tariff dispute with the USA.”...
...The USA and China now see a chance to take over . . . I see our chances of keeping the lead position at 50:50.”...
...The BMW brand alone increased sales by 4.2 per cent to 2.1m cars....
...Yet, the European Tour accepts this dependence on the tournament, played every two years with Europe and the USA alternating as hosts, is a dangerous game....
...China is already the fourth largest market for the brand after the UK, USA and Germany, with 25,000 deliveries so far this year....
...I now drive a little BMW. It is nice, just not as comfy. When commuting from Leeds to London, I drive to Doncaster station, from where the journey takes two hours....
...The company completed the first fully autonomous road test in China last December, using Baidu’s self-driving system — a clunky-looking sensor package mounted on a BMW....
...Facebook has signed up brands including Priceline, BMW’s Mini USA and Nestlé’s Butterfinger, promising that “priming” viewers online before showing them TV commercials would make them more likely to buy...
...Few countries, however, are close to setting prices for transport’s carbon emissions that could produce the radical changes that BMW foresees....
...Auto Bild stressed there was no suggestion BMW had fitted a defeat device....
...VW, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover — which has the highest CO2 emissions of any large carmaker — are on course to miss by some margin, though each has said it is committed to meeting the targets....
...Daimler and BMW both said real-world driving depended on a range of factors not reflected in the laboratory test....
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