Alliances are proliferating as auto manufacturers and Silicon Valley firms see a future in ride hailing, self-driving cars.
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A Chinese carmaker agrees to buy a Danish investment bank
A COMPANY that moves up the value chain from refrigerator parts to cars is impressive but not that surprising. A car company that buys an investment bank is audacious. But Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, a conglomerate based in Hangzhou, China, did not become big by paring its ambitions. Having successfully made the fridge-parts-to-cars transition at […]
The Orphan Chronicles: ReVere, an Innovative Carmaker that Turned Out to Be a Scam
-The ReVere Motor Car Corporation of Logansport, Indiana, may have been one of America’s first supercar makers. The marque was founded 100 years ago by Adolph Monsen, who toured the streets of Logansport in the first bare chassis on August 25, 1917. Monsen was a vehicular obsessive who got his start in the Chicago bicycle […]
The Volvo Wagon: How Did Station Wagons Come to Define This Swedish Carmaker?
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The Volvo Wagon: How Did Station Wagons Come to Define This Swedish Carmaker?
– From the February 2017 issue – If the Volvo brand were a Rorschach blot, most Americans would see a station wagon. But this didn’t come about as the result of some Swedish plot for domination of the American suburbs. It was an accident. – In the mid-1950s, around the time that Volvo first considered […]
