Instead, Ford dealers will arrange for pickup, repair and return of the vehicles, which will be freshly washed and vacuumed as well.

BBC: Cars on show at New York

Only about half of the vehicles a carmaker leases return to the company--owners buy many and others are in crashes.

FORBES: Residual Risk

Earnings were helped by building more trucks, and pricing benefited from the limited supply of vehicles by Japanese competitors, which plan to return to full capacity in the second half.

FORBES: Numbers At General Motors Just Don't Add Up

However, a number of vehicles were abandoned and motorists were being urged to return and try to move them.

BBC: Snow in Port Erin

Expeditors generates a 24% return on capital, something that a shipping company with a lot of vehicles would be hard-pressed to match.

FORBES: I'll Handle That

They have borrowed not only for their own direct purposes to build public works and housing but also for enterprises known as local-government financing vehicles, whose businesses often have a low rate of return.

WSJ: Philip Bowring: China Needs a 1997-Style Crisis

Since commutes tend to be heavier in one direction than another, most fleet vehicles would incur extra costs dead-heading to return to the concentration of commuters for a second and third round during the rush periods.

FORBES: Part Six of a Seven-Part Series on Driverless Cars

The study shows that owners of vehicles that fail an emissions test are 11 percent less likely to return to that facility the following year, which implies that those same customers also are less likely to use that business for future repairs and routine service.

FORBES: Competition Leads to Workplace Corruption, Research Shows

Hedge funds and other investment vehicles have increasingly been funding litigation against major corporations in return for a piece of any winnings.

FORBES: Hedge Fund Elliott Management Is Backing Stan Lee Media's Spider-Man Lawsuit Against Disney