| Dallas area new-vehicle sales rise 4.5% in 2007
Contrary to national trends, new car and truck sales in the Dallas-Fort Worth area rose 4.5 percent last year. The data from the Freeman Metroplex Recap includes retail sales as well as sales to car rental agencies and fleets. And the increase "portends well for business this year," said Drew Campbell, president of the New Car Dealers Association of Metropolitan Dallas. "I think it's very exciting," he said Wednesday. "We are in the center of the United States. Because of that, we're not having the ups and downs of the West Coast and East Coast." If new vehicle sales here continue to grow, they'll be bucking some considerable economic headwinds. New car and truck sales in the U.S. dropped 2.5 percent last year and are expected to fall by at least that much this year. Dealers in the four-county Dallas-Fort Worth area sold 383,939 new vehicles last year, compared with 367,381 in 2006, according to the Metroplex Recap.
Thrifty Car Sales Opens Eight Dealerships in Six States
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thrifty Car Sales, a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE: DTG) , is turning up the heat on expansions, recently adding eight locations to its national network of franchised used car dealerships. New dealerships are opening in markets that include Baxley, Ga.; Louisville, Ky.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Bixby and Pryor, Okla.; East Providence, R.I.; and Spokane, Wash. In Baxley, Ga., dealer Keven Carter opened a Thrifty Car Sales dealership at 755 W. Parker St. Carter has been in the automotive business for more than 10 years, most recently as Sales Manager at Woody Folsom Chevrolet. Steve Sternberg, a Thrifty Car Rental and Truck Rental franchisee for more than 32 years, has opened a dealership at 6507 Preston Highway in Louisville, Ky.
It’s official: Rockford lands Ireland flights
Twice-weekly flights between Rockford and Shannon, Ireland, will start June 26, according to Kenny Tours. The Maryland-based company signed a deal Thursday with North American Airlines to fly the route through Aug. 31, said Bob Nay, Kenny Tours' director of sales and marketing. The flights will be Thursdays and Sundays. Round-trip airfares start at $888, including taxes and airport fees. Six-night motor coach tours, including airfare and hotels, start at $1,489. Six-night bed-and-breakfast stays, including airfare and car rental, start at $1,489. The seasonal model is similar to Chicago Rockford International Airport's other international route, Apple Vacations' weekly flights to Cancun, Mexico, in the winter. But the Ireland flights will be on Boeing 757s with almost 200 seats, which would be the largest plane used on a regularly scheduled passenger route from Rockford.
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1car1, the UK's leading independent car rental company continues to grow and grow and grow. This year the UK specialist car rental company has seen 10 new branches open nationwide giving an even greater level of service to the Australian Traveller. With its ever present Free home delivery Lee Burrows, 1car1's National Sales manager says, We aim to position ourselves in the marketplace as the leaders in UK Car Rental and whilst we are still new to many agents there is a large following out there who know that 1car1 are the only stop when it comes to full on expertise in the UK. Some of the new branches such as Kendall in the Lake District highlights just how specialised we are." Whilst available in all the major centres some of the 1car1 branches service the obscure requests that are sometimes received.
Italy stands out at party for 25,000
Nero d'Avola, a rising star of Italy's rising south, led the Italian invasion, or at least played important second fiddle to Italy's most popular native variety, sangiovese, of Chianti fame. And few reds at the show were as crowd-pleasing as the aforementioned $22 Pinocchio, made in Sicily by Tuscan producer Dievole, with its fruity richness and, not least, text-free label displaying a black-and-white sketch of the storybook character. Though not available in Canada, it is sold in other foreign markets by Wineoclock, a sort of indie record label of Italian wine, which discovers and exports family-produced, handcrafted gems pressed from indigenous, heritage grapes. "We believe that small is better than big," Mr. Costantini said. If nero d'Avola is the trendy Berkshire pork of the wine world, Italy also is a hotbed of lesser-known varieties, many in danger of being confused here with Pinocchio's woodcarver creator Geppetto, like gaglioppo, grillo, catarrato, bombino, magliocco or zibibbo.
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Shootout report cites confusion
U.S. marshals had two strategies for capturing Jason Karlo Anderson, a violent drug dealer from their top-15 wanted list who was hiding out in Alaska. One involved his girlfriend, who had fled after he shoved his .45-caliber pistol in her mouth. The other involved surrounding the cabin complex in Homer where he was thought to be staying. Both scenarios could easily turn into hostage situations, the troopers worried, because Anderson kept his two small children close by at all times. He had already threatened to kill them -- and as many cops as possible -- if an arrest was attempted. "If they wanted our assistance," said Capt. Tom Bowman, head of the Kenai Peninsula troopers detachment, "it would be only when we could guarantee he was separated from the kids, his pit bull, which he always had with him, and his gun." Bowman's words of caution emerged from the troopers investigation into the shootout at the Homer Airport, which was finally released last week, two years after the incident that left Anderson dead and his 2-year-old son permanently brain-damaged.
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