Word: carly
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...history of the electric car...
...Hyundai's ad line - You can return your car to us if you lose your job - still moving cars? Yes. The Korean brands, Hyundai and Kia, have gained market share this year at the expense of their American, Japanese and European rivals. Both Hyundai and Kia were outperforming the industry through May. "Hyundai's share is up over 2 percentage points over the first half of '08, which is a massive undertaking in a very volatile market. We do continue to see them in a position to go after additional share, but it will be a more difficult environment...
...car manufacturers doing well? Subaru continues to chug along, building on its modest success last year. Overall, Subaru's sales are down only 1% during the first six months of the year, and it just reported a 3% increase in June. Audi is another carmaker showing signs of gaining share in a difficult market. While its sales are down slightly, Audi now holds more than 9% of the U.S. luxury market, its largest share in years. (Watch an interview with Ford CEO Alan Mulally...
...these awful sales numbers jeopardize any aspect of the Obama rescue plan? Manufacturers insist that the latest car sales are a reflection of the underlying weakness of the U.S. economy. Bob Carter, head of the Toyota sales apparatus, notes that the Japanese automaker's sales totals continue to suffer from California's economic crisis as well as its real estate downturn. "It's not one thing: it's real estate, it's availability of credit, it's unemployment" that's hurting California sales, he says. Mike DiGiovanni, GM's general director of market analysis, says the present economic numbers suggest...
...crisis has become harder and harder to ignore, even as Krytikova is surrounded by more than 30 dolls that, when completed, will represent about $190 worth of merchandise for three days of work. "In 1999, we were able to buy a car, a garage, send one son to university and renovate our apartment on the money my husband and I made from making matryoshki," she says. "But today, you make such a small amount of money for such devilishly complicated work." She notes that since October, she's had to cut her prices by about $4 per doll. Factor...