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| NYT > Automobiles as of Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:34:54 GMT |
| Mosley Wins Suit Against Tabloid | | A judge ruled for Max Mosley, the overseer of grand prix motor racing, in his privacy suit over a British tabloid’s story about a sadomasochistic “orgy” with a Nazi theme. |
| Rethinking a Pioneer | | Students at the College for Creative Studies tried to redesign the Model T for the 21st century. |
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| Daily automotive news and comment - from just-auto.com as of Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:44:07 GMT |
| US: Special charges plunge Ford $8.7bn into red in Q2 | | Pre-tax special charges of US$8bn, including impairments of $5.3bn for Ford North America long-term assets and $2.1bn for Ford Motor Credit Company's operating leases plunged the automaker to an $8.7bn, or $3.88 a share net loss for the second quarter of 2008 compare with net profit of $750m (31 cents a share) in Q2 2007. |
| BRAZIL - Automaking moves up world ranking | | Brazilian automakers and importers hiked first half 2008 sales to 1.41m, according to trade group Anfavea, putting the country ahead of three of the four traditionally strong European markets of UK, Italy and France. |
| GOLDING'S TAKE: Fiat spares no quarter and holds the forecasts | | Sergio Marchionne, the chairman of Fiat, is the best presenter in the motor industry. He is dramatic, he is articulate, he can improvise. He is very quick on his feet. He is a comedian, can turn a great phrase and can rustle up the perfect quotation for most occasions. In a foreign language. |
| GOLDING'S TAKE: VW now stands for...very well, thank you | | Volkswagen is out of its bad period. Corruption, shareholder shenanigans, poor quality cars are yesterday's news. The company has been talking about making sustained improvements for ages. Yesterday (Wed) it had its (superb) half year results. VW can now be accepted as improving - and that the improvement is an embedded trend. |
| GERMANY: Daimler blames Chrysler for Q2 earnings drop | | Though revenue rose 6% to EUR25.4bn and unit sales were up 10% to 566,500 cars and commercial vehicles, Daimler net profit in the second quarter fell to EUR1,395m from EUR1,849m a year ago. Earnings per share were down to EUR1.40 from EUR1.74. |
| LONDON SHOW: GM's E-Flex cars will come with ?40,000 tag | | As GM forges ahead with developing its electric vehicle technology GM Europe President Carl-Peter Forster has told just-auto that its first range-extended plug-ins will likely arrive in Europe with a ?40,000 price tag including taxes. |
| US/JAPAN: Toyota beats GM again | | Toyota vehicle sales worldwide rose 3% year on year to 4.8m, ahead of General Motors which it also beat in the first quarter. |
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