Financial analysts see a patch of blue sky should car sales recover.

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But when he arrived in New York he found a car from Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian company, waiting for him at the airport.

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What would happen if you pointed the car towards the sky.

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In 2006, a woman in Chaddesden, Derbyshire reported a lump of ice about the size of three bags of sugar fell from the sky and narrowly missed her car.

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Visitors can also purchase red noses, car badges and Spirit in the Sky CDs, the official single from Gareth Gates and the Kumars.

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The sky was dark, and he had parked the car on a quiet street.

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But Whistler makes for a long, expensive and potentially stressful daytrip, especially on dark winter evenings when the winding Sea-to-Sky Highway can be tricky to negotiate in a car.

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Take a dramatic cable car ride up Mount Ulriken to find the sky:skraper restaurant, perched 643 metres above sea level.

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Next door, Big Sky offers huge, open boulevards, six and eight car lanes wide, as if the locals race tractor trailers down here in the off-season.

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It is then that I realise, under an endless sky, with clouds caught mid-scud above me, that the Rizk DBR2 isn't really a car.

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