Want to see something else than always the same tired parking lot at Long Beach? Go to Russia, tovaritch! There, car haulers are lining up for miles and miles and miles at the border. As reported yesterday, the Russians raised their car import duty to a prohibitive 30 percent, and whoever wanted to ship a car to Russia did it, before the new rate went into effect. Some at the end of the line didn’t quite make it.
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Toyota spokesman responds in the Detroit News, asking “How do you tell a worker in Kentucky who’s producing a Toyota that his job is worth less than another American autoworker’s?” How indeed. And we thought the bailout was about fighting racism.
Oil shocks, terrorism, economic malaise, automaker bailouts and now six-wheeled cars. What’s next? Disco and pet rocks?
See Corker’s post-hearing interview with CNBC here.
“These cufflinks feature a beautiful little 20mm long sculpture of the Type 35 which, being in the art metal’s essence of form house style, displays no more fine detail to readily demonstrate the beautiful aerodynamic lines of the 1924 Bugatti Type 35. The miniature sculptures are cast in EX-T35 bronze and patinated to take on the dark brown color associated with true art bronzes. The sculpture is then mounted upon a stylized T-35 radiator shaped back plate, the latter plus cufflink arm being cast in solid EX-T35 solid aluminum. A limited edition of 350 cufflinks. Each piece is engraved with its limited edition number and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.”
I’ve been seeing stick-on wood for as long as I can remember, but this is a first: plastiwood around the Lexus logo on the steering wheel. I like wood trim in cars when it’s actually wood. At the point where you know it’s just a junky sticker, what’s the appeal of this crap?
And there we were saying Ford doesn’t have branding. Anyway, fun is a serious business, apparently. Bloomberg reports that Ford has been trying to trademark the word “FUN” (all caps?) in connection with “some” of its European automobiles since 2005. In 2007, the EU courts said, in effect, geddowdahere. And while we’re dealing with the surreal, how about this: the original case was brought in German. Spaß; Freude; Scherz; Lachen; Gelächter? Bloomberg seems to think that today’s ruling clears the way for Ford to resume its claim on FUN, but I think they got it exactly backwards. The adjudication itself is, remarkably, a hoot. Seriously, the jump is well worth your time, as it includes some language Bloomberg neglected to mention. Where’s their sense of fun?
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