Car Dealer News for 22-Jan-2006
'New car dealerships in a slump (The Tribune Chronicle)
Standing in one place too long can lead to disaster, whether on a railroad track or trying to survive intense competition in the car business.
'James Bond car sells for $1.9 million (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A Swiss businessman won the keys to James Bond's silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on Friday with a $1.9 million bid at an annual classic car auction in Arizona.
'Robert Koplow, retired car dealer, helped develop Bedford Auto Mile (The Plain Dealer)
Aurora- Robert Koplow, retired owner of Bob Kay auto dealerships, suffered fatal head injuries Monday when he was hit by a car while walking his dog near his winter home in Cape Coral, Fla. He was 71.
'New Renault Clio Wins Coveted Best Supermini At The 2006 What Car? Awards (carpages)
Not content with winning European Car of the Year 2006 and every single group road test the media has conducted Renault?s New Clio remains the car to beat after scooping the prestigious Best Supermini at the 2006 What Car? Awards confirming its entrance at the top-of-the-class.
'Car sellers can drive you nuts (Centre Daily Times)
We are tough customers. Not only do we not know what we want, we do not know if we want. It doesn't seem that extravagant of us to buy a new car when the newer of our old cars is a 1995. Driving crummy, old cars, a friend reassures me, is depressing.
'GMAC tries to remove vehicles from dealer (The Steubenville Herald-Star)
EAST LIVERPOOL - City Police were called to Mountain Chevrolet when a representative of GMAC allegedly attempted to remove new GM vehicles from the car dealer's lot Saturday evening.
'RYAN BAKKEN COLUMN: I UMP car puts the Mystique back into Mercury (Grand Forks Herald)
I thought my 1997 Mercury Mystique, at 179,000-plus miles, was durable. But it's barely off the dealer's lot compared with the I UMP car. I UMP is the personalized license plates on the 1986 Honda Accord owned by Tommy Perius. I UMP is shorthand for the fact that Perius is well-known as a baseball umpire. He's also familiar as a basketball referee.
'Bond car fetches 1.9m at auction (Stuff)
PHOENIX: A Swiss businessman won the keys to James Bond's silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe with a $1.9 million bid at an annual classic car auction in Arizona.
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