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...Fuck”, a track that, in addition to being flat-out fun, still holds the record for most frequent usage of the “f” word (48) in a charting British single. Their Welshness also came to light for a moment as lead singer Gruff Rhys held up a sign an audience member had printed, reading “Paid a malu” (vaguely translatable as “stop bullshitting,” but ambiguous in its intended recipient).In a few moments like these, the SFA of old reappeared, but these were only...
...signs of life: GM's Employee Discount for Everyone promotion bumped its U.S. sales up by 41% in June, the best monthly sales performance since 1986. And PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rover's administrator, was in talks last week with three separate suitors - involving two Chinese firms - for the carmaker. Garel Rhys, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff University's business school, sees a happy ending at Rover. With Britain "the first place to get major Japanese investment" in its auto sector, "it would be in keeping to get the first major Chinese offshore investment," he reasons. Could...
...months - but it will cost at least €7,500. So could VW be set to take a similar detour? Possibly, according to industry experts, because car buyers in developing countries are developing extravagant tastes. "Romanians read motor magazines; the Chinese car customer is extremely knowledgeable," says Professor Garel Rhys, head of Cardiff University 's Centre for Automotive Industry Research. "They've seen the flow of the newer Western cars coming in." He adds that piling on optional extras doesn't usually give the customer value for money. Better, advises Rhys, to go for "a low-mileage used vehicle...
...audience, now went after the male market, valuing impact over nuance, the gross over the gracious. If Merchant-Ivory wanted the old genres, they could have them for free. So they ransacked your auntie's library for stories by Henry James (The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Golden Bowl), Jean Rhys (Quartet) and, most sympathetically, E.M. Forster (A Room With a View, Maurice, Howards...
...cars. In 2000, BMW sold it for the equivalent of $15 to four Birmingham businessmen whose firm was optimistically called Phoenix Venture Holdings. Their idea of a great car: the MG SV, introduced in 2002 with a starting price of $120,000. Only about 50 have been sold. Garel Rhys, an automotive expert at Cardiff University Business School, quips: "It's the yeti car. Everyone's heard of it, but no one has seen one." Last year, overall MG Rover sales were down to just over 100,000, less than half what the firm needed to break even. BMW invested...