Morgan Korn/ABC News(NEW YORK) When the Volkswagen ID. Buzz goes on sale in the U.S., consumers may be seduced by the microbus' nostalgic design and electric
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(NEW YORK) The fastest and rarest BMWs sold in the U.S. do not come from the Bavarian automaker s headquarters in Munich.
Nearly 300 dedicated workers in Buchloe, Germany, an hour s drive from Munich, tune, modify, upgrade and hand-assemble the cars, giving each one the white-glove treatment before they re shipped overseas.
Alpina, an independent, autonomous company and household name among Germans, produces low-volume, specialized automobiles that are even more uncommon than a Ferrari or Rolls-Royce. About 1,700 Alpinas are built each year, with 400 shipped to the U.S. Ferrari, in comparison, sold 10,131 sports cars in 2019; Rolls-Royce delivered 5,152 vehicles that same year.
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net
A slew of red decorations will be going up along some Independence streets soon, and they actually won’t be for the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
For eight years now, some residents and business owners around the Englewood Station Arts District have attached customized wooden hearts, about 2 feet wide, to the light poles in Englewood, eventually stretching to the Square, as the Independence Square Association later joined in the effort. They’ll stay up through February.
They call the collective artwork the HeART to HeART Connection. Tammy Parsons, owner of B-Vogue Salon and co-founder of the non-profit WestiND Connection, said this is the first time the hearts will stretch from the Square west to the intersection of Truman and Winner roads, the west end of the Englewood neighborhood where Van Horn High School is.