He drives his expensive, high profile car to the office and around town.

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And with such a high-profile car, GM is likely to stick with Volt for years to come.

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He has not been seen in public since the high-profile car accident, even missing his own tournament in California earlier this month.

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Police said they linked Wade after the fact to a high-profile car theft in March 2011 in which a man rappelled from the roof of a San Francisco auto dealership into the showroom and roared off in a canary-yellow Lamborghini Spyder Gallardo.

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Brembo is a world leader when it comes to high performance brakes, with a high profile at Formula 1 and other motor car racing events.

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Although car makers enjoy a high political profile, as a group they are in fact relatively small investors (see chart).

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Mitsubishi, Japan's only unprofitable car maker, has suffered a collapse in domestic sales following a series of high-profile product recalls over the past four years.

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Of course, there are some high-profile debuts, most notably the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, perhaps the most-hyped car in history, and the Nissan Leaf all-electric, both due in November.

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