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...Black drivers show up in a couple of photos from Robert Frank’s 1959 book The Americans — and that’s it....
...Or maybe she’ll be one of the first to drive the new Hummer EV, part of her bullish gambit to electrify GM’s entire fleet by 2035....
...Oh, those “Su-hummer Ni-ights”. Follow Robert on Twitter @robertshrimsley and email him at robert.shrimsley@ft.com Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...truck (FT) Vista Equity Partners founder reaches $140m settlement with DoJ (FT) Morgan Stanley profits jump 25% on Wall Street trading bonanza (FT + Lex) Electric truck start-up’s Hummer-like pickup...
...Conservative MP Robert Halfon shares a “Freudian explanation” for his interest in watches. “[My parents] got divorced, but the only thing they had in common was they were always late,” he says....
...They said he had 15 vehicles, including seven Chevrolet Suburbans and a Hummer, as well as two private jets he owned through corporate entities....
...have more or less conceded almost all those points already, which is probably just as well, because it was rather like having Theresa May on a bicycle cycling ferociously towards the European Union in a Hummer...
...But Britain lost that contest almost immediately — just as well, since it was the equivalent of a Mini speeding towards a Hummer....
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...The hero’s car is a bright yellow Hummer that might be looking for a yellow brick road....
...“You see it in the parking lot: the Mercedes, the BMWs, the Hummers – we are bringing in new people,” he says....
...GM said it would make a decision on selling or phasing out Hummer, which it is trying to sell to a Chinese carmaker, by the end of next month....
...China’s car companies are rumoured to among the bidders for some of the west’s most famous brands such as Volvo, Saab and Hummer....
...GM also said it would sell or wind down its Hummer and Saturn brands, and said that it was talking to the Swedish government and other parties about making Saab an “independent business entity”....
...Some analysts have suggested GM might fold Jeep into its Hummer division if recent moves to sell Hummer fail. Dealer rationalisation would be another priority....
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...But Chinese consumers simply do not aspire to drink Coke, eat McDonald’s or drive Hummers.”...
...Robert Toll insists he could sell his whole nine-year supply of land on the spot for a profit. Right now, he’s probably right....
...“The president wants this as a legacy issue and the Democratic congress needs to show it can get results in the next year,” says Robert Hormats, vice-chairman at Goldman Sachs and former economic policy...
...What is needed is a clear set of policy initiatives to persuade Americans that it is simply no longer cool or manly to drive a great big Hummer....
...During the election campaign, read Notebook early at www.ft.com/notebook robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
...(Don't even think about trying to park a Hummer there.)...
...Winblad, Co-Founder and Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Jason H. Wright, Senior Vice President, Merrill Lynch Co. David Zucker, President and CEO, Midway Games...
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