Lotus is the car company that wants to be associated with everyone at the moment. Or should it be Lotus is the car company everyone wants to be associated with? ...
LOTUS this week fired up an apoplectic rage of motoring journos exploring ingeniously creative alternative takes on the image of Colin Chapman spinning in his grave (I respectfully bowed out ...
CHEVROLET’S Matiz is, I find, a bit of a charmer in the handling stakes, and to now I’ve never really known why. After all, it’s soft. It’s tall. It has ...
Saab and Volvo: two very different companies indeed: “Volvo has 20,000 employees, Saab at the death had 3500. In 2010 Volvo produced 375,000 cars, Saab in its final year managed just 32,000. And Saab’s $940m turnover was dwarfed by the $16.7bn generated by Volvo.”
That’s why Ford paid $6.45bn for Volvo in 1999 - yet GM’s entire stake in Saab cost just $725m…