Although Fiat lost that contest, it has teamed up with another local company, Severstal Auto.The third lesson is that local conditions and local tastes must be catered for when adapting existing models that have done well in mature markets.
Mr. Wauquiez said that the bill ran contrary to European treaties, and that France would contest it before the European Court of Justice.
My 2015 hope is that we can contest it without the US-style culture war rhetoric of recent years.
He noted that his sister is a member of the National Assembly from Nawabshah, and said she could give up her seat within two months so that he could contest it.
During that contest, it is true, there were those who asked how Sir Menzies would cope with a hostile Commons; they feared he had become used to being treated with deference by journalists and fellow MPs.
Given people's focus on that contest, it's been strange to see the national news media going on about Thursday's gubernatorial primary and about our lieutenant governor, Ron Ramsey, who suggested Islam might be more of a "cult" than a religion.
"I actually thought there was a good chance that he would not contest it," Franken told me.
But his peak performance stands higher and higher, while everything that once seemed to contest it falls away.
John Kerry lost the state by nine points in 2004, but that was a relatively small margin when you consider that he never bothered to contest it.
There's still a chance, however, that some member states will contest it this week.
