Sales last year reached only 165,163 units, well down from this nameplate's peak.
Among the individual car nameplates in Europe, the Ford brand is down nearly 1% in the first four months of the year, although Ford was up 10.6% in April, compared with 2007.
My hands-down favorite was a police sergeant whose nameplate I couldn't see through the crowd.
Reversing a long brand-acquisition spree — Ford has given up its controlling interest in Mazda, though the companies will continue to share technology — the company kept hacking down to its core Ford and Lincoln nameplates.
On Nov. 4, 1930, voters didn't fully grasp the technology: "In a number of instances, instead of pushing down the machine levers, voters marked crosses on the nameplates of the candidates on the machines.
(Mercedes' best-selling nameplate, the C-Class, features coupes, sedans and wagons, but the company does not break down C-Class sales by vehicle type in published reports).
At General Motors in Europe, the Opel/Vauxhall brands are down nearly 5% for the four months, but April was also strong for these nameplates.
Her coffin was eventually unearthed in 1929, causing her remains to slide down the side of the mountain, with only her casket handles, a nameplate and several bones recovered.
Platform-sharing carries its risks, but GM deserves credit here for substantially upgrading the Malibu rather than dumbing-down its European nameplates.
On Monday morning, the nameplate marking Assemblyman Vito Lopez's desk in the New York State Assembly chamber will be removed, and his official Web site will be taken down.
