Sunday, 29. December 2002
Topic: - on December 29, 2002 at 1:02:51 PM CET
Down with the ship: Retailers try to keep buyers whose vehicles were lost in shipwreck
he Dec. 14 sinking of the ship Tricolor -- in a thick, English Channel fog -- hit Volvo Cars of North America just as it began sales of its first sport-utility, the XC90.
The ship was carrying nearly 3,000 U.S-bound Saabs, BMWs and Volvos - including 358 XC90s. U.S. dealers have accepted deposits for about 9,000 XC90s but so far have delivered only 290 in October and 881 in November.
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