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You can joke about Estelle, but you wouldn't have laughed about Skoda during the Battle of Jutland

Alf Grumble wrote 4 days ago: You can laugh at this model - but Skoda jokes nowadays are passé. Alf likes the story of the 12-year … more →

Tags: humour, bad cars, Eketahuna, Ford, Jaguar, Jokes, Skoda, top gear, Volkswagen

And the winner isn't... Sir William Lyons Award 2009: Article 2

Joe wrote 1 month ago: Between moving out and in, overseas and all over the place, I found some time in the summer to work … more →

Tags: Sport, motorsport, Education, French, Apprenticeships, Article 2, BOSCH, Bosch Rexroth, car magazine

Foreskins by the tonne2 comments

Alf Grumble wrote 2 months ago: Only some of us will remember the days when a car might have a rumble seat or – depending on which s … more →

Tags: dicky seat, Sport Coupe, Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition, Armoured Cars, Whale Penis Leather

Why I hate the motor trade

mtfuture wrote 4 months ago: I’d like anybody who has experience of the motor trade and hates it to join in and tell me wha … more →

Tags: Cars, Kerridge, adp, EPC, 1link

India going rad

pakistanpal wrote 6 months ago: by Rupali Gaurav We see Delhi legalizing homosexuality amid what appears to be a ricochet of politic … more →

Tags: India, Afghanistan, hindutva, China, New Delhi, Germany, Russia, religious extremism, ISAF

Sorry, We Don’t Require Your Custom Today, Sir1 comment

theboyellis wrote 6 months ago: "She's only done 170K, runs like a bird." Of all the industries facing major problems … more →

Tags: Business, General, bad salesman, car sales, Chrysler, Ford, GM, Peugeot, polo

GM is in overdrive with its sales prospects

Alf Grumble wrote 7 months ago: Some fascinating insights into the decline of a once-great motor company are provided by the New Yor … more →

Bailing out the motor industry: What would Google do?

Chris Maloney wrote 8 months ago: When you are stuck with a marketing problem, one of the best ways to “think outside the box”, is to … more →

Tags: marketing strategy, Apple, Google, macquarie bank, mcdonalds, Outside the box, Planned obsolescence, PR, virgin

Agassi talks up a Better Place2 comments

Andre Sammartino wrote 8 months ago: You may remember my earlier posts on the Better Place electric car scheme (1, 2, & 3). Well, now … more →

Tags: Strategic Management, car industry, Australia, Business, Auto Industry, Electric Cars, better place, Cars, TeD

Thrown to the wolves

Trev wrote 8 months ago: Amazingly, despite its professed desire to prevent unemployment and promote British manufacturing in … more →

Tags: Cars, Politics, Brown, Loans

We need some spark!1 comment

Nick wrote 8 months ago: On Wednesday, I was lucky enough to attend the first of the 2009 series of Digital Dinners, an infor … more →

Tags: Sales, Retail, Current Affairs, Finance, Business, Green, Entrepreneurship, start a business, run a business

Greens dump on car scrappage scheme 2 comments

Alf Grumble wrote 8 months ago: Government incentives to buy new (more efficient) cars seemed such a great idea, Alf was about to ra … more →

Tags: Environment, food miles, scrappage schemes, Automobile Association, Environmental Transport Association, Subsidies, British Government, Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders

Government bailout for newspapers

claredickinson wrote 9 months ago: Newspaper stand from laffy4k on Flickr The Government has bailed out the banks and is working on a p … more →

Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, Press Gazette, Government, Bailout, press, media, Banks, Alastair Darling

Volvo to head East?

Andre Sammartino wrote 10 months ago: A fascinating prospect has emerged from the drawn-out demise of Ford’s international network o … more →

Tags: car industry, International Business, Automobile Industry, Business, car makers, Cars, China, Finance, Ford

Should US biotech have a federal bailout?

silico wrote 10 months ago: We recently came across an interesting informal poll conducted by Fiercebiotech to assess sentiment … more →

Tags: Government, Biotechnology, Banks, credit crunch, Fiercebiotech, federal bailout

Raiding the back catalogue

igmorrison wrote 11 months ago: Citroen DS Nike, Adidas, Fred Perry. Pick a fashion brand and from time to time, they all raid the b … more →

Tags: adidas, citreon, DS, car manufacturer, Nike, Fred Perry, vintage, Back Catalogue, Vintage Line

Picking winners in tough times1 comment

Andre Sammartino wrote 1 year ago: One of the more curious emergent industries to spring up from the current economic downturn is stora … more →

Tags: Strategic Management, car industry, Business, Cars, recession

More on income elasticity - wanna buy a Bentley?

Andre Sammartino wrote 1 year ago: I am starting to think that my fixation (see 1 and 2) on products suffering in the current frosty ec … more →

Tags: Strategic Management, Luxury, Business, income elasticity, Cars, recession, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Ferrari

Talking telephone numbers for the car industry1 comment

Nick wrote 1 year ago: There’s something wrong in the air for the car industry. As I write, in the US, the House of R … more →

Tags: Current Affairs, Finance, Sales, Agility, Business, change, Change Management, Chrysler, Downturn


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