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Mercedes, BMW vie for US luxury car crown
In a first, two German manufacturers — Mercedes-Benz and BMW — are dueling for the honor of being the top luxury brand sold in the United States. With the champion of the past 11 years, Toyota’s Lexus, hobbled by the fallout from Japan’s March 11 earthquake-tsunami-nuclear meltdown disaster, the two…
BMW launches new electric/hybrid brand
FRANKFURT – The German luxury carmaker BMW unveiled on Monday its long-awaited new brand, BMW i, with two new models to be equipped with electric and hybrid drive systems from 2013. The group is also creating a venture capital unit to offer mobility services such as car sharing and navigation…
Faster, GM! Build, Build!
Shorter Wall Street Journal: since seven of the top ten autos sold in the US are sedans, and five of those ten are Japanese-made, US automakers should make trucks and BMW-style luxury cars. And disband unions. In fact, if we look at the top 20 cars sold through June, the…
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