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  • Christmas spirit shifts to top gear

    12/22/2005 11:30:43 AM PST · by JZelle · 7 replies · 401+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 12-22-05 | Jen Haberkorn
    The shiny new car, topped with a big red bow and parked in the driveway on Christmas morning, isn't just commercial fantasy or every 15?-year-old's dream. Luxury auto dealerships in the Washington area say about 20 percent to 30 percent of their December sales are purchases made as holiday gifts, prompting them to keep a hefty supply of oversized red bows. About 20 percent of customers buying cars at the Rosenthal Jaguar in Vienna, Va., this month are buying holiday presents, sales manager Ogun Yilmazer said. The dealership is usually in on the plan, dropping the car off at friends'...
  • Mercedes' New Boss Rolls Up His Sleeves

    10/08/2005 3:15:16 AM PDT · by lowbuck · 2 replies · 299+ views
    Business Week Online ^ | 17 October 2005 (Mag date) | Gail Edmondson
    Layoffs are just the beginning. Can Zetsche fix production and quality woes? Only four weeks into the job, Mercedes Car Group chief Dieter Zetsche stunned employees on Sept. 28 by ramming through a program to cut 8,500 jobs at the German auto maker -- 9% of its German workforce.
  • UN probe paints Annan's son as big-spending liar

    09/07/2005 6:48:34 PM PDT · by SmithL · 4 replies · 614+ views
    Reuters ^ | 9/7/5 | Claudia Parsons
    You can choose your friends but not your family. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan escaped charges of corruption in a report on the Iraqi oil-for-food program released on Wednesday, but evidence was presented that his son Kojo brandished his father's name to avoid paying taxes on a luxury car and lied repeatedly while under investigation. Kofi Annan said the report was "deeply embarrassing." One of the most embarrassing points for the soft-spoken Nobel Peace Prize winner from Ghana must be the role of his own son. Kojo Annan, now 31, was a consultant for the Swiss firm Cotecna S.A. that won...
  • Yushchenko and Timoshenko prefer "Mercedes"

    08/19/2005 2:58:42 PM PDT · by jb6 · 145+ views
    Forum Ukraine ^ | 19 August 2005
    Recently the governmental auto park has been renewed and enlarged. Cars for ministers were bought in 2005. "In none of a county ministers and governors drive bicycles," explained this fact Timoshenko. The principle of vehicles’ distribution in Cabinet is the following: according to the special edict each ministry has a fixed number of cars. At the same time the edict does not specify a car model – "Cadillac" or "Tavria" if you like. Ministry of Finance has the biggest number of cars – 27, Ministry of Culture has the smallest – only five. High officials of Cabinet and ministries drive...
  • Diesel Drive: Mercedes planning to launch several models as other automakers weigh options for U.S.

    06/20/2005 9:12:48 AM PDT · by B Knotts · 33 replies · 1,214+ views
    AutoWeek/Automotive News ^ | 6/20/05 | Richard Truett
    Mercedes-Benz car group plans to launch several diesel-powered vehicles in all 50 states as early as 2008, perhaps signaling a broader move to diesels by the industry. At least two Chrysler group vehicles, the Chrysler 300 and Jeep Grand Cherokee, also could get diesel options. Four Mercedes models - the E-Class sedan, M-Class and G-Class SUVs, and new R-Class sport wagon - are expected to be offered with diesel power. Just five diesel-powered car models, including Mercedes' E320 CDI and two small diesel SUVs, now are available in North America. But as gasoline prices soar, automakers are taking a close...
  • Jacko Prosecutors Celebrate Early - Jesse Jackson riding around area in unregistered Mercedes

    06/11/2005 4:32:09 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 16 replies · 1,377+ views
    FOX NEWS.COM ^ | JUNE 10, 2005 | ROGER FRIEDMAN
    The prosecutors in Michael Jackson's child molestation and conspiracy trial apparently feel they've already won their case. On Wednesday night, the whole lot of them — DA Tom Sneddon, Ron Zonen, Gordon Auchincloss, their wives and families — all celebrated at the Hitching Post restaurant in Casmalia. The Hitching Post, cousin of the Buellton restaurant featured in the movie "Sideways," is considered the best restaurant in the greater Santa Maria area. Sneddon was so happy that he actually embraced celebrity crime reporter Aphrodite Jones. She told me he was in a jubilant mood, and the most outgoing of all the...
  • Daimler Unveils High-Mileage Diesel Car

    06/08/2005 10:55:57 AM PDT · by B Knotts · 73 replies · 2,190+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 6/7/05 | Justin Blum
    DaimlerChrysler says it will become the first manufacturer to unveil a diesel concept car that will meet more stringent pollution rules and get higher mileage than diesels now on the road. ... Some environmentalists reacted with skepticism to the Daimler car, noting that manufacturers often introduce flashy concept cars that never make it to the production line. They also said the country would be better served by companies making more gasoline hybrid vehicles because they pollute less than cleaner-burning diesels. "The auto industry is trying to convince the car-buying public . . . to reject better technology like hybrid cars,"...
  • Flick pays Nazi-reparation fund after years of protests (Billionaire Mercedes heir)

    05/27/2005 1:07:56 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 3 replies · 693+ views
    The Art Newspaper ^ | Friday, 27 May 2005 | Lucian Harris
    Billionaire Mercedes heir and art collector Friedrich Christian “Mick” Flick, has paid €5 million ($6.54 million) into a fund for surviving victims of Nazi forced labour, administered by the German foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future”. Dr Flick, whose grandfather was Hitler’s leading weapons manufacturer, had been under pressure to make the payment for several years, particularly in light of the long-term loan of his contemporary art collection to the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, which went on show last September, attracting vociferous protests from Jewish groups. Salomon Korn, vice-president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany described Berlin’s...
  • NYT: Your Mercedes Is Not Armor-Plated? How Declassé!

    04/12/2005 6:04:15 AM PDT · by OESY · 22 replies · 1,172+ views
    New York Times ^ | August 15, 2004 | MARK LANDLER
    MUNICH, April 6 - Striding through the parking lot next to his factory, trailed by smoke from his Cuban cigar, Johann P. Ackermann gestures toward a black Mercedes-Benz sport utility vehicle. The roof, hood, and doors on the passenger side are punched in, as if by a giant fist. The internal screws that roll down the windows are embedded in the metal of the doors. "A bomb exploded right next to it," Mr. Ackermann said. "Destroyed a building. But everybody in the car lived." He delivers this sales pitch in a brusque, homicide-detective patter that somehow seems perfect for the...
  • Over-Engineering 101: Seems that the fancier-and more European-the car, the less reliable it is

    12/26/2004 4:36:26 PM PST · by Brilliant · 148 replies · 3,555+ views
    Forbes Magazine via Yahoo! ^ | December 9, 2004 | Jonathan Fahey
    The price of unreliability is getting outrageous. If you want to buy what Consumer Reports has determined will be the least reliable sedan available in the U.S., you're going to have to shell out between $75,000 and $125,000. That's because the dubious honor went to a car Consumer Reports also calls "sumptuous," "quiet and luxurious" and "a delight to drive": the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. Mercedes-Benz (a division of DaimlerChrysler) has been struggling with quality problems over the last few years. But the rest of the list of the least reliable sedans reads like the valet lot of a Davos hotel at...
  • Rare parasite may have caused Phoenix official to fall or jump from car

    12/13/2004 3:25:51 PM PST · by Rakkasan1 · 35 replies · 1,619+ views
    AZ Star (pm) ^ | 12-13-04 | az star
    SCOTTSDALE - The city of Phoenix's longtime finance director died in Scottsdale after falling or jumping from a moving car. Witnesses told police that Kevin Keogh, 55, climbed onto the top of his moving Mercedes-Benz, stretched out his arms and then jumped or fell from the car on Wednesday. The car continued driverless until it crashed into another car. No one else was injured. Investigators don't yet know whether the death was intentional, but the cruise control was apparently set at 50 mph. The medical examiner will determine if drugs or alcohol were involved. City officials and Keogh's widow said...
  • Caption This Moronic 'Peace' Protester

    11/22/2004 11:53:44 AM PST · by ChuckShick · 68 replies · 3,936+ views
    AP ^ | Nov. 19, 2004 | Victor Caivano
  • Car System Could Save 7,000 Lives a Year

    10/28/2004 6:26:00 AM PDT · by OESY · 45 replies · 1,096+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | October 28, 2004 | KAREN LUNDEGAARD
    A new study found that if all vehicles were equipped with stability control, an electronic safety technology that the industry has been slow to adopt, some 7,000 lives a year could be saved. Stability control, which has sensors that determine when a driver is about to lose control of the vehicle and try to correct that course, reduced the risk of being in a fatal single-vehicle crash by 56%, according to the study to be released today by the Arlington, Va.-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. That group is the research arm of the insurance industry. It is the second...
  • Appeals court hearing arguments in Clara Harris case

    10/06/2004 9:28:12 AM PDT · by MeekOneGOP · 12 replies · 902+ views
    Associated Press ^ | October 6, 2004 | PAM EASTON
    Posted on Wed, Oct. 06, 2004 Appeals court hearing arguments in Clara Harris casePAM EASTONAssociated PressHOUSTON - Attorneys for a woman who ran over her cheating husband outside the hotel where they married a decade earlier want her murder conviction overturned.Clara Harris was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine last year for killing David Harris in July 2002 after finding him at a suburban Houston hotel with his mistress.The former dentist's attorneys cite seven trial court errors that they think should overturn the conviction.Harris is serving her sentence in Gatesville, about 35 miles west of...
  • Rare 1929 Mercedes become world's second most expensive car

    09/04/2004 5:22:43 PM PDT · by martin_fierro · 1 replies · 1,262+ views
    AP/Yahoo ^ | Fri Sep 3, 5:38 PM ET
    Rare 1929 Mercedes become world's second most expensive car Fri Sep 3, 5:38 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - An ultra-rare 1929 Mercedes has become the second most expensive car the world has ever seen after selling at a British auction on Friday for 4.18 million pounds (6.16 million euros, 7.43 million dollars). The 7.1 litre SSK sports car -- bought by a collector in 1941 for just 400 -- was sold to an unidentified European phone bidder during the sale in Sussex, southeast England, auctioneers Bonhams said. The Mercedes, in near-original condition, was one of 38 cars discovered in barns...
  • DCX recalls 680,000 Mercedes cars

    05/11/2004 5:28:21 PM PDT · by BurbankKarl · 9 replies · 225+ views
    Reuters ^ | 5/11/2004
    FRANKFURT (Reuters) -- DaimlerChrysler AG's DaimlerChrysler said it is offering free inspections to customers of its E-class sedan built after March 2002, SL-class sports cars built after October 2001 and T-models built after March 2003. A spokesman said that previous inspections showed that of all the models of these classes and years, roughly two out of every thousand proved to have problems with the Sensotronic Brake Control system. If the same percentage applied, this would translate in this case to about 1,360 units affected out of the 680,000 vehicles. The carmaker said the defect in the system's braking hydraulics meant...
  • Morford: Minivans Do Not Have Sex But BMW owners have plenty. What's a new-car buyer to do?

    05/07/2004 8:23:26 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 46 replies · 638+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, May 7, 2004 | Mark Morford, early Miata owner
    BMW drivers have more sex. Astonishing, this headline, ripped straight from the pages of an upstart German car magazine for men called, quite Germanically, Men's Car, so you know it must be authoritative and irrefutable and dorky and niche-y and almost entirely pointless. So it must be true. Basically, the survey claims that Bimmer owners claim they get it on more times per week (2.2, to be far too exact) than Audi owners or Porsche owners or Mercedes owners or VW owners and much more than those poor sorry Volvo people, because, well, it's a Volvo, fer Chrissakes, and don't...
  • German Chancellor kicks off Dresden exhibit in Jackson, Miss.

    02/28/2004 8:04:01 PM PST · by RKB-AFG · 13 replies · 205+ views
    The Clarion Ledger ^ | February 28, 2004 | Sid Salter
    <p>Schroeder arrives in Miss. after mending fences in D.C.</p> <p>WASHINGTON — After a frank White House discussion Friday with President Bush over the war in Iraq, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder detoured to Mississippi to celebrate German art and satisfy a curiosity about Jackson.</p>
  • Hugh Hewitt trashes Mercedes ad: "Eight airbags. Nine if you're listening to talk radio."

    02/20/2004 5:05:50 PM PST · by RonDog · 36 replies · 650+ views
    www.HughHewitt.com ^ | Frbruary 20, 2004 | Hugh Hewitt
    From www.HughHewitt.com:February 20, 2004Posted at 4:00 PM, PacificI have nothing against Mercedes-Benz.  Or at least I didn't, until I turned the last page of my Los Angeles Times' sports page today --the only section safe for the non-journalist public to read-- and discovered this ad. Pretty smart, huh?  Insult the guys with mics.  Made for a pretty good show, though.  A Mercedes dealer's sales manager called Roger Schlessinger, my mortgage refinance wizard, and told him they'd be boycotting him because I was saying nasty things about Mercedes on air.  Another smart move by Mercedes personnel --threaten innocents and bystanders.  So...
  • German Cars Disappoint Car Owners

    11/29/2003 11:13:40 AM PST · by freedom44 · 128 replies · 1,286+ views
    DW World ^ | 11/29/03 | DW World
    Mercedes and BMW for all their glamour, aren't the preferred choice of German car-owners, according to two surprising new surveys released this week. When it comes to overall ratings, nothing tops the charts like a Mercedes Benz. But for everyday use, German car-owners prefer Japanese cars to the legendary names of their native country. The stunning news is the result of two surveys conducted separately by car magazine AutoBILD and German car-insurer ADAC. The so-called Automarxx survey, conducted by ADAC with the Center for Automotive Research at Gelsenkirchen Technical College, asked more than 38,000 car owners to rank international car...