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...Mercedes-Benz, Volvo trucks and Aston Martin....
...Walking up to the house, Ryan saw Wen sitting in a black Mercedes-Benz E-Class in the driveway. He tapped on the car window and told her he needed to search the house. Wen refused....
...He argued that the anti-subsidy probe had divided Europe, with some German groups opposed, including carmaker Mercedes-Benz. “I personally don’t think it is a very healthy signal.”...
...A first-class return ticket from Frankfurt to New York cost as much as a new Mercedes-Benz car in 1961....
...Mercedes-Benz posted a record €14bn in profits last year — albeit mostly from selling combustion engine cars — and its share price has hardly moved....
...The luxury carmaker will name Tobias Moers, who runs the AMG performance arm of Mercedes-Benz, as his replacement in an announcement scheduled for Tuesday....
...Each party will own a third of the team, which with driver Lewis Hamilton has dominated the sport since its return to F1 in 2010. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed....
...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.”...
...From the middle of this decade the systems used to build all Mercedes-Benz cars will switch over to producing electric models....
...Since acquiring Sweden’s Volvo in 2010, it has become the controlling shareholder of brands Proton and Lotus and has taken a 9.69 per cent stake in Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler....
...The Chinese carmaker behind Volvo and Lotus is already in talks with several other car manufacturers to license the technology, including Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler, in which Geely holds a stake....
...The satnav in a Mercedes-Benz car recognises the words as an address, as do the London private cab company Addison Lee and Careem, the Dubai-based ride-hailing app....
...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....
...The veteran investor, who spent three years with his wife on a world road trip across 116 countries in a customised Mercedes-Benz, feels particularly aggrieved by travel restrictions....
...China’s Geely, which took a controlling stake in the business last year, owns a suite of automotive business from Volvo Cars to Proton, and also has stakes in Mercedes-Benz-owner Daimler and truckmaker Volvo...
...Since entering their race team in 2010, Mercedes has won five double world championships — securing top ranking for its drivers and construction team — on the spin and appear on course to make it six....
...In the 1950s, this painting “suffered an ignominious fate” when it was part-exchanged for a Mercedes-Benz, Beisly says....
...Geely, which bought Volvo from Ford in 2010, has expanded internationally with stakes in Volvo Trucks and Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler, as well as the electric black-taxi maker LEVC, and other transport businesses...
...Germany’s Daimler, the maker of Mercedes-Benz, has issued four profit warnings this year, while Ford is axing 12,000 jobs in Europe and closing plants. Nissan has also warned on earnings....
...Export champions such as BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz account for 80 per cent of the global luxury car market....
...Mr Schot, who joined the VW Group from Mercedes-Benz Italia in 2011, was appointed an Audi boardmember last September....
...Mr Schot, who joined the VW Group from Mercedes-Benz Italia in 2011, was appointed an Audi board member last September....
...Geely acquired close to 10 per cent of the shares in Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler earlier this year, to become the biggest shareholder in the company....
...Geely has acquired close to 10 per cent of Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler for about $9bn, becoming its largest shareholder in the latest sign of the global ambitions of the Chinese group....
...Mercedes-Benz and the smart brand increased sales by 6 per cent last quarter, to 597,300 units. Operating margins for Mercedes cars fell to 9.2 per cent, from 11.8 per cent a year ago....
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