1.   Based on that position, Mercedes ships its cars with the side air bags activated.

2.   A spokesman for BMW, Karl-Heinz Ziwica, said his company had shipped cars that way even before the October letter from the safety agency.

3.   A. Here are three companies that ship cars overseas.

4.   Chrysler said it detected the problem before any flawed cars were shipped to dealers.

5.   Cars are shipped to Genoa.

6.   Daewoo FSO Poland officials said new Nexia cars were shipped from Korea to Slovenia, then dismantled and shipped to Poland for reassembly, according to the reports.

7.   El Salvador has no Atlantic port, so shipping the car from Houston would prove problematic.

8.   Europe and the United States shipped cars back and forth because they specialized in cars with different characteristics.

9.   Ford, Peugeot and Jaguar have temporarily stopped shipping cars through the Chunnel because of the ongoing disruptions.

10.   Ford, for instance, now builds its Fiesta in Brazil and its Escort in Argentina and ships cars across the border.