In sync with the show's evocative look back, Martin Puris, the genius "Mad Man" behind the automotive company's tag line "The Ultimate Driving Machine, " introduced the program's opening ad, a superbly crafted vignette, complete with historical footage, that brings to life the story behind the car and how it came to stand for what it does in the minds of consumers.
They pulled into Enterprise, piled out of the car, and poured out their sob story to an Enterprise employee who listened intently.
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'You will have understood that Solcavsko people do things slowly, they like to take their time, ' says Martina's neighbour Karli, a well-known zither player, as he recounts the story of Luca, whose car was swept away in a flood in 1990.
The latest story is that the Google camera car might have killed a donkey in Botswana.
Even cycling is reaching new heights -- bike hacker Richie Trimble recently built a two-story-tall bike that soars above car traffic.
The car is and will continue to be an american success story.
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The car arrives at his home - a comfortable two-story house in suburban San Juan, of which he was once mayor - where Estrada asks me to have lunch while he freshens up upstairs in his bedroom.
Remember the story about the drunk who was searching for his car keys under the streetlamp?
It was in a cheaply constructed, boxlike, one-story building on a desolate street of bars, car-repair shops, and empty lots.
Today, Bryan, 39, tells his story from the driver's seat of a car that he wouldn't have fit in two years ago .
In fact, passenger car sales in China were flat in February, which is a story for another day.
The exhibition at Leicester's Guildhall explains the story behind the search for the king under a council car park in the city.
Recently an executive with a major insurance firm shared a story about his experience with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, top in the 2010 JD Powers customer satisfaction study among rental car companies.
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After about a week since the horrible story hit the media the aftershock is like a bad car accident: nobody wants to get too close to Penn State, but everyone wants to watch.
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Carrol relays a story of a woman who carries a camera in her car, purely as a prop to show cops as she tells them she's rushing to the hospital to meet her pregnant sister, for whom she promised to take pictures during delivery.
As you might now predict, there was no girl, no car, and after I walked in and quizzed the attendants about her story, it became embarrassingly clear that there never had been.
They believed me when I told them who I was and who I was writing, gave me the car, the access to a superstar athlete and when I wrote a story about it in a magazine or newspaper or website as I said I would, it made them a little more likely to believe the next guy.
Take the story of Daniel Gray of Belle Mead, New Jersey, a car reviewer whose job ironically forces him to use public transit.
One of our financial planners told me the story of the interaction between her and her husband when selling their used car.
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Probably my favorite story that we tell in the book is about Greg Tackett who owns a car stereo customization store in Pikeville, KY.
In an oft-told story, each morning his mother, Madaline, a nurse, would jump in the car and conveniently drive by a disabled neighbor as he walked to the bus just to give him a ride.
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Unlike Ford, which didn't take U.S. government bailout money, and Toyota, which decided the timing--following the downturn--just isn't right, GM really has a story to tell, she says, citing recent innovation, including its Chevy Volt electric car.
Toyota ( TM - news - people ), which decided the timing--following the downturn--just isn't right, GM really has a story to tell, she says, citing recent innovation, including its Chevy Volt electric car.
According to a story in the Boston Globe, the victim told police he left his cell phone in the car, which could be tracked, and he also told police that his car could also be tracked using the Mercedes-Benz GPS system.
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On July 21st the Wall Street Journal ran a short story on its inside pages suggesting that Wayne Huizenga's AutoNation, the country's biggest car retailer, was considering offering an own-label car.
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