Daily Archives: November 4, 2014

Private Parking Penalties challenged in Mass Legal Action

Millions of drivers could have Private Parking Penalties overturned and their ‘fines’ refunded if a mass action started by Cambridge Law Graduate Michael Green is successful.

In 2010 and 2011, a site warned of the consequences of a clause (#56) hidden away in the 2011 Protection of Freedoms Bill that gave Parking Enforcers the right to levy Draconain penalties for breaches of private parking conditions, and in the process make themselves hundreds of millions of pounds in profit.

Daimler opens China r&d center to help Mercedes close sales gap with Audi, BMW

Daimler has opened a research and development center in Beijing tasked with further tuning its Mercedes-Benz brand to wealthy Chinese tastes and closing the sales gap with Audi and BMW brand.

Mercedes’s China sales rose 30.5 percent to 203,485 in the first nine months, trailing BMW, which sold 335,863, a rise of 18 percent. Sales of luxury market leader Audi rose 16 percent to 415,704 in the same period.

Mercedes-Benz introduces a new… surfboard?

Mercedes-Benz Portugal has just delivered a new surfboard to Garrett McNamara entirely made of almost entirely from Portuguese cork, a project done in partnership with Corticeira Amorim.

October US auto sales mostly up; Ford sales fall

Of the United States' top automakers, General Motors missed expectations, but said sales increased 0.2 percent thanks to gains in its sport utility vehicles

Automakers Monday reported mostly higher US sales in October behind rising consumer confidence and lower gasoline prices.

October car sales, Spain up 26%, France down 4%

October Car sales looks like a mixed bag of results. Spain is up 26% on scrappage scheme, and France is down 4% on economic gloom.. Here is how each looks.