Posts Tagged ‘wild goose chase’

Lutz: E-Flex to reach 1 million units worldwide by 2020

Monday, July 28th, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Opel Flexstreme.The first Chevy Volt and its E-Flex brethren are still more than two years away, but vice chairman and corporate quote machine Bob Lutz is already targeting 2020 for 1 million annual worldwide sales. The lofty target would go a long way towar......

BMW reports best-ever sales first half-year of 2008

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Demonstrating that there is good news still to be found in some sales departments, BMW Group announced their worldwide January through June 2008 sales for BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brands increased 4.7 percent compared to last year. The sales total of 764,874 automobiles marked the most successful h......

Hyundai outsells Honda

Friday, July 4th, 2008
World’s fifth largest automaker–HyundaiHyundai-Kia has become the world’s fifth biggest carmaker following huge growth over the past decade.The Hyundai Kia Automotive Group was formed through the merging of South Korea’s largest car company, Hyundai Motor Company, and the nation’s second l......

Peugeot rolls out millionth new 207

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Click above to view the 1,000,000th Peugeot 207 in high resolution It has only been two years since Peugeot introduced the 207, and already the French automaker has produced over 1 million examples of the new car. The car hit the market in April 2006 with the three- and five-door hatchbacks, and has......

Paid ransom returns stolen cars

Thursday, June 16th, 2005
One of England's sports car manufacturers spent $5,500 to have $185,000 worth of stolen supercars returned to them. Three cars were stolen from Noble's factory but one never got too far after one of the thieves drove one off the road and left it in a ditch during the getaway. After the burglars......