Now here comes the latest dream, this one from Scott Painter , 33, founder and former chief executive of online car seller CarsDirect.com.
His father, George Romney, was a rich, albeit self-made, car executive.
Dieter Zetsche, chief executive of Germany luxury car maker Daimler AG, aired qualms about Germany's shift in nuclear policy.
General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler were holding out, despite the fact that one of the company's main investors and advisers was an ex-chief executive of a major car manufacturer in Detroit.
The recent movie "Seven Pounds" detailed the guilt of an executive who caused a fatal car crash because he emailed while driving.
"We know that in five years the US dollar will be stronger than it is today, " the chief executive of a leading European car maker told BBC News.
Among the investigations that have been blocked are those into Azimi, the bank executive who allegedly bought the car for Salehi, and Ghulam Ghaws Abubaker, a former governor of Kapisa Province, for allegedly colluding with the Taliban and extorting money from contractors.
According to Jonathan Banks, executive automotive analyst with the NADA Used Car Guide, used-vehicle prices will remain largely at their lofty levels because of looser lending standards, recovery in the housing and construction markets, a gradual decrease in unemployment levels, an increase in supply from booming new-car sales and pent-up consumer demand.
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Facing competition from BMW, Audi and Mercedes in the premium small-car market, Saab Chief Executive Peter Augustsson needed a new model and turned to another GM partner, Fuji Heavy Industries, maker of Subaru four-wheel-drive cars. (GMowns a 20% stake in Fuji.) After months of discussions, nudged along by Lutz, the collaboration resulted in the Saab 9-2X, a sporty, high-performance wagon based on the underpinnings of Subaru's Impreza compact and its high-performance cousin, the WRX.
Lately, the phenomenon has spread to the UK where changes to company car taxation have fuelled demand for executive diesels.
Gee Rittenhouse sees a future in which an executive running late for a meeting pulls his car to the side of the road and calls into a videoconference.
Shai Agassi, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who dreamed of a world without oil, is stepping down as chief executive of Better Place, the plug-in car company he founded in 2007.
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An executive at one parts company says that electronics in a car are seven times more likely to fail than mechanical parts.
Commercial airlines and car-rental firms are suffering, but executive-jet firms are booming.
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Interest in laws to restrain dogs in the car is growing, says Christina Selter, executive director of Bark Buckle UP, an advocacy group calling for tighter driving laws.
Another, proposed by former software executive Shai Agassi, entails electric filling stations at which car owners would make a quick swap of a depleted battery for a charged battery.
Daimler's own product portfolio already embraces the small and quirky Smart car, but there's also the executive icon the Mercedes Benz, the sporty, powerful derivative AMG and the rather pointless Maybach.
Phil Rogerson, who has been on the Aggreko board for 15 years, with 10 years as chairman, will be replaced by Ken Hanna, who joined the board last October, and is currently chairman of car retailer Inchape plc and a non-executive director of Tesco.
As chief executive of Vehicle Donation to Any Charity, which operates a car-donation program based in Point Richmond, Calif.
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The relative high purchase price of electric cars comes from the cost of the lithium-ion batteries, which a Ford executive recently revealed can make up one-third of a car's price.
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Were they fully merged--they remain distinctly separate despite sharing a chief executive and such tasks as purchasing, tech networks and some car chassis, engines and transmissions--the amalgam would be the fourth-largest carmaker on the planet.
Meanwhile the council's executive board also agreed to suspended charges at all its town centre car parks in the county from 10am in the two weeks leading up to Christmas.
"We expect Pandora to be available in any car, " says Jessica Steel, the company's executive vice president for business development.
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"Unfortunately, after a year's commercial operation, it was clear to us that despite many satisfied customers, the wider public take up would not be sufficient and that the support from the car producers was not forthcoming, " said Better Place Chief Executive Dan Cohen in a statement.
So is 29-year-old advertising executive Ajit Bansal, who was planning to trade in his motorcycle for a car by April.
Significantly, the LS 430--like the Infiniti Q45 and BMW 7 Series--is a luxury car intended to be driven by its owner, not as an executive limousine.
Rolls-Royce do not know how much the car would cost if they were to put it into production, though chief executive Torsten Muller-Otvos points out that electric cars that are currently for sale come with rather large price premiums.
Peugeot chief executive Christian Streiff said the firm was reacting to the "collapse" in Europe's car market.
Tesla Motors chief executive Elon Musk has branded a New York Times review of his company's electric saloon car as "fake".
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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