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...The Silicon Valley company run by Elon Musk launched the first long-range electric cars — the Roadster in 2008 and the Model S in 2012....
...The one black spot was Capital One, the consumer lender. It was told to address weaknesses in its capital planning or face a block on investor payouts....
...When Honda left F1 in 2008, it sold the car it had developed to a management team led by Brawn and Fry....
...Vin Vara, the proprietor of nine Tool Shop stores in London, said his rates bill had gone up £47,610, an increase of 38 per cent....
...In response, “active safety”, an approach that aims to avert accidents rather than make them less damaging, is one of the fastest-developing technologies as manufacturers fit cars with cameras, sensors and...
...The new approach has helped entice Honda, the world’s largest engine builder, back into the sport. The Japanese group, which quit F1 in 2008, will be the engine supplier to the McLaren team from 2015....
...F1 looked like an inappropriate place for Honda to be during the economic maelstrom of 2008....
...Success would deliver a boost to one of the country’s most prominent labour unions following years of setbacks....
...Honda’s high-profile decision to abandon Formula 1 in 2008 precipitated a broad exit from motorsport....
...Tata bought Britain’s Jaguar Land Rover in 2008, and Mahindra acquired Ssangyong of South Korea two years later. Such global forays will continue but now they must also face the threats at home....
...A broad look at the economic data since the 2008/09 financial crisis paints a fairly favourable picture for UK factories....
...The Sonic is selling better than competing small cars such as the Honda Fit, Hyundai Accent, Toyota Yaris, and even Ford’s small Fiesta, which it makes in Mexico....
...While car companies and brokerages are very different beasts, one theme may fit both: once some smaller rivals establish themselves as viable alternatives, size and past glory alone do little to protect...
...“We will soon be renewing Swindon products one by one, and we will start to recover,” a Honda official in Europe says....
...In June 2008, Honda started leasing its first hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle, the FCX Clarity, to a few hundred drivers in California, becoming the first carmaker to put the technology in the marketplace Two...
...The other evening over dinner our host poured six Pinot Noirs, of which one came from each of Burgundy’s two smartest domaines, Romanée-Conti and Comte Georges de Vogüé, one was the 1995 Isabelle from Au...
...Honda has admitted fault for 11 injuries and one death related to the airbag problem....
...On a planet with vast amounts of space (all of humanity could fit in Texas—each of us with a personal townhouse), we choose cities....
...Last year Honda said it planned to triple the foreign content of its popular Fit subcompact from roughly 5 per cent, a move designed to cut costs amid a rise in the value of the yen....
...[Customers] also like the fit....
...The Ur-Saab, built in 1946, was one of the first cars to be tested in a wind tunnel, for example, and was as aerodynamic as a modern-day Honda Accord....
...In 2008, Caparo expects sales of £1bn, just under half coming from the UK and the rest from the US, Europe and India....
...Mr Murtaugh said the venture would initially produce one model based on a Chery vehicle of a size comparable to the Honda Fit....
...One crossover is designed to add some pizzazz to the ailing Buick brand....
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