Hints and tips:
...Higher used-car prices have squeezed profits for Kyle Weisner, whose family has owned the Victory Auto Wreckers junkyard and towing business in suburban Chicago for more than 50 years....
...They will have to convince prospective customers that an electric vehicle has similar towing and off-road capacity as a truck with an internal combustion engine....
...Electric vehicles comprised about 3.2 per cent of the US auto market in April, according to research firm JD Power*....
...stake in the car part-maker Continental AG as Covid-19 batters the auto industry....
...“The pick-up bed can carry a large amount of gear and can be made secure with an aftermarket top; four‑wheel-drive and a high towing capacity make them ideal for pulling boats or horse trailers; the interiors...
...We are stricken, but by blind chance a kind Belgian family driving in the opposite direction happens upon us and quite literally pulls us back from the brink, towing us on to the path with their Land Rover...
...Given that the car is not likely to be an only vehicle, for shopping and school runs in the week and towing the horse box at weekends, perhaps it could be more single-minded but less loud....
...“Auto shops will say they accept credit cards for bodywork, but towing, no,” he said. “That’s like McDonald's saying we take credit cards for hamburgers and French fries, but not for sodas or salads.”...
...I’ll go on”, wrote Samuel Beckett, who perhaps also once waited on Dan’s Towing & Services....
...“Most want something big and substantial so that they don’t feel as if they are in a caravan. [They] can attend various meetings all around Europe, towing a couple of motorbikes....
...Jonathan Steinmetz, analyst at Morgan Stanley, says: “Weak April sales pose downside risk to carmakers’ third-quarter production schedules, auto dealers’ second-quarter earnings and suggest higher May incentives...
...While Toyota, Honda and Nissan all sell trucks, most of their vehicles have lacked the towing capacity and “muscle” image that many buyers want....
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