51.   Barely noticed in the WTO deal are provisions to allow foreign car makers to offer car loans.

52.   Bayerische Motoren Werke AG denied a report that the Quandt family is looking to sell its controlling stake in the German luxury car maker.

53.   Auto sales were down in January, according to the large car makers.

54.   Benz, Royce and Jaguar returned, but the great legion of coach builders and car makers who populated the Roaring Twenties were gone.

55.   BMW, the German car maker, has melded ideas about its corporate image with art photography.

56.   Besides increased sales of replacement tires, sales to car makers have risen by reducing tire production cycle times and by developments in research and development, he said.

57.   Boehly added that at this point NHTSA would not immediately question Saab executives or ask the Swedish car maker to provide the agency with company records.

58.   Both car makers have traditionally been linked in European minds with their staples, minicars and subcompacts.

59.   BMW, which has an agreement to provide engines to Rolls, was widely seen by analysts as the prime suitor for the luxury car maker.

60.   A government bar on entry of foreign car makers had a lot to do with that success.