The sign on the toilet brush says it best: ”Do not use for personal hygiene.” That admonition was the winner of an anti-lawsuit group’s contest for the wackiest consumer warning label of the year. The contest’s goal is ”to reveal how lawsuits, and concern about lawsuits, have created a need for common-sense warnings on products”.
The man who brought the Yugo and Subaru to the United States and built a gull-wing sports car bearing his name has a new project — selling Chinese-made cars in the US. Chery Automobile, owned by the Chinese government, has signed a deal with the privately held Visionary Vehicles of New York to sell Chery’s cars in the US.
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/ 22 January 2004
General Motors, the world’s largest carmaker, said it hopes to receive final approval by month’s end to buy the remaining stake in South African automotive company Delta.
It didn’t take long for some savvy folks to dream up merchandising the blackout of 2003. Take a quick surf through the web and you can find just about any type of memorabilia, from T-shirts and coffee mugs to baby bibs and thong underwear — even advice on how to handle the next big outage.
The number of African immigrants living in southeastern Michigan has grown fast in the past decade, and businesses are springing up to bring them the flavours of home.
Ford Motor Co. officials introduced several futuristic vehicles using descriptions that surely don’t harken back to the company’s founding a century ago: ”sexy,” ”bat out of hell,” and ”automotive Swiss army knife.”
”It seems that everyone who has an Arab name is a suspect” these days, said Osama Siblani, the editor of the Arab American News.