The Americans often make such mistakes and abandon nameplates when they update a car.
So we dreamed of fancy titles on our nameplates and homes on pricey lots.
Overall, domestic nameplates average 133 problems per 100 vehicles, while import nameplates average 123.
BMW. In a Solomon-like solution, the firm's British nameplates were split asunder after a 70-year marriage.
The company also sells commercial trucks and buses under the Volkswagen, Scania and MAN nameplates.
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There's no question that it's costly to keep all those nameplates up to date.
When you spend enough time watching the auto industry, you see a lot of nameplates killed.
The truth is that our people now buy more cars with foreign nameplates than with American nameplates.
These days U.S. automakers are trying to tap into some of that remaining affection by reviving old nameplates.
Because Macy's eliminated those old retailing nameplates years ago, Mr. Kassoff says, he considered them to be abandoned.
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To get into that game you had to "be there, " so cash poured into real estate and corporate nameplates.
Customers will decide whether these 21st-century incarnations are worthy of their revered nameplates.
Pearson said she has owned many makes of cars, including foreign nameplates, and Saturn's treatment of customers beats them all.
General Motor's plan for Saturn is different from its other troubled nameplates.
It seems that Ford has differing hopes and expectations for the performance of individual nameplates within a segment depending on what segment is involved.
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But some nameplates--like the T-bird--are gone despite being beloved and successful.
Ford says reverting to familiar brands makes sense in today's hypercompetitive market, where the explosion of models makes it difficult to build awareness for new nameplates.
Half the American auto industry is foreign nameplates, and it's companies like Toyota and Honda and Hyundai and Nissan that are building cars in the United States.
Either way, assuming it survives at all, GM will look a lot different than it does today: leaner and--keep your fingers crossed--more capable of competing with foreign nameplates.
The Forum said that automakers are set to introduce more than 20 new clean-diesel vehicles in North America this year, roughly doubling the number of diesel nameplates available.
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But the 2013 model year is shaping up to be better than most, with more than 30 all-new nameplates headed to showrooms and many existing models being thoroughly reinvented.
Among the model lines we recommend shoppers avoid, four selections were from domestic makers (Dodge and Jeep), five were from Japanese brands (Nissan and Suzuki) and two came from European nameplates (Smart and Volvo).
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The automotive graveyard is full of long-vanished nameplates.
Additionally, initial sales data show that C-Max is stealing hybrid sales away from other brands at an impressive clip: Its conquest rate is about 64 percent, with Prius and the Honda CR-V ranking as the top nameplates abandoned by customers in favor of C-Max.
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