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...(FT) Podcast of the day Culture Call Simon Schama is one of the world’s premier historians and art historians....
...one of the nation’s blue-chip companies....
...The Saturn, Hummer and Pontiac brands were killed off....
...The one-time construction company owner arrives in Yangon’s Insein district in her black Hummer H3 car, which has been souped up with a giant NLD logo of white star and yellow fighting peacock on a red background...
...Israel and Hizbollah fought a war in 2006 that killed hundreds of people and laid waste to swaths of Lebanon....
...“I never had fewer than three luxury cars, including a Hummer just to take my dogs to the vet.” All this changed after 2006....
...Past the Army checkpoints, the razor wire, sandbags, blast walls, machinegun towers, camouflage netting and war-smashed buildings, the sleek white Hummer 2 stretch limo rolled through Baghdad like a little...
...One stumbling block is believed to have been a push by China authorities to get consumers to buy smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles for its domestic market, rather than petrol-hungry Hummers, in spite...
...However, AM General, a US military contractor, will continue to build the big H2 model, and GM will make the smaller H3 until mid-2011, with an optional one-year extension....
...Mr Naumann says carmakers that previously had a limited range can now span the full spectrum, with the number of domestic models rising from 53 in 2006 to 159 last year....
...One is leaning against a red Hummer, the narcos’ vehicle of choice; another holds a mobile phone to his ear as he looks menacingly at the camera. Both are in their twenties....
...(For example, he has condemned a widespread fondness for whiskey and Hummers.)...
...In 2006, he passed legislation that made California the first US state to cap the production of greenhouse gases....
...One option for a buyer would be to close Hummer’s US operations but maintain a presence in other parts of the world where sales have remained more stable....
...Born in 1986 as a refrigerator manufacturer, it began producing cars in 1998 and first appeared at the Detroit auto show in 2006....
...Hummer’s current vehicles, the H2 and H3, are smaller than the original H1, which was based on the Humvee military vehicle....
...one of the keys to the coming global financial crisis....
...Last week GM announced deals to sell its Hummer and Saturn brands. Saab sold just 98,000 cars last year, and its sales record, reached in 2006, was 133,000....
...“They [Harvard] are trying to sell a Hummer when everyone wants a Fiat Cinquecento.”...
...Instead, Mr Wagoner shrugged off Mr Kerkorian’s efforts in 2006 to get GM to form an alliance with Renault-Nissan and to shed its Hummer and Saab brands when they might have been worth something....
...Fear not, however, because the sharp business minds that offered cash-strapped consumers the Hummer H3 (fuel “efficiency”: 14 miles a gallon in the city, or three times less than a Toyota Prius) and the...
...Then came news that China plans to buy Hummer and make it greener. China’s love affair with big, flashy autos is clearly just beginning....
...None, however, offers much comfort as Israel’s leaders ponder once again whether to take military action – this time against an Iranian enemy far more powerful than the one they took on in 2006....
...SUVs and pick-ups slumped to an estimated 22.3 per cent of total US retail sales last month from 37 per cent as recently as late 2006....
...In the US, car sales had been dropping since 2006, brought down by rising fuel prices....
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