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...went that way for the President all morning and into the afternoon. Thousands lined the streets as he and Callaghan drove by in the Prime Minister's black Daimler sedan. Hundreds pressed themselves on the American President at every stop. Old Carter campaign posters and even a couple of bright new Confederate flags mysteriously appeared...
...automakers-Volvo and Saab-Scania-announced their decision to unite in a new company, to be called Volvo-Saab-Scania. By any measure, the triple-hyphenated outfit will be a giant: with sales of $5.8 billion, it will rank as Europe's fourth largest automaker (after Daimler-Benz, Renault and Volkswagen), turn out a line of vehicles ranging from compacts to huge Scania rigs, and employ nearly 104,000 workers...
...with the mandatory bottle of Poland water, and helped Hughes descend from his hideout down the service elevator to the hotel garage. With his snap-brim hat and his leather jacket, the man who had broken the round-the-world flight record almost forty years earlier boarded an old Daimler limousine and went off to relive the joys of long-gone days...
Mercedes after Mercedes after Mercedes. One might expect to see them at the Beverly Hills Hotel, or perhaps a drive-in movie in Kuwait-but at a factory's employee parking lot? Ah, but the factory belongs to the German automaker Daimler-Benz, whose employees may buy the company's prestigious product at a 21.5% discount. Last year Daimler-Benz's 129,000 workers snapped up 40,000 Mercedes, or 11.4% of total output. After one year, employees are free to resell their cars on the open market. These days they often get 10% more than they...
Other customers do. Waiting time for a new Mercedes-Benz ranges from five months to 14 (for the relatively plebeian-priced $6,738 diesel 200 model), and would-be buyers who are not employees are getting annoyed. So Daimler-Benz has made an odd request: that employees sell their year-old models not to the highest bidder but to Mercedes dealers, who will recondition the cars and sell them. "We are appealing to our employees' sense of responsibility," says a company spokesman. "We point out that they will be helping to ensure the company's future if they...