A press delivery driver revealed a cunning car coverup recently, exposing a famous Nissan to be not quite what it seemed. Remember the pink Nissan Micra C+Cs? A brace of ...
MINI is helping pay off the economic deficit that is preoccupying Cameron and Clegg’s coalition Government. How? By making lots of cars and exporting 4 in 5 of them. Last ...
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NISSAN was selling more Qashqai models last year than ever before. Why? That’s what we were keen to find out at Motoring Research – so we got one out for ...
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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…