News just in. Hummer, the military shortcut for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV, or Humvee) the wagon that North Americans, the world's police, prefers to transport guys into ‘hot-spots' of the world has just been bought by a big Chinese engineering firm.

Word is they'll still be made in Michigan, by North Americans. It's expected the cutlery will change markedly in the tea-rooms.
From the 'you never know when” file, MAZDA Europe lost the company's public relations director Neil Warrior on the Air France Airbus that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1.
Also among the 228 people killed in the plane crash were three executives from the
Michelin Group, suppliers of tyres to Mazda, and two executives from a large German steel company that also supplied MAZDA Europe.
Stories suggest the men had all met at different times, relating to their respective companies' business relationships, though the men didn't know one another well and weren't aware they were on the plane together.
British Police are trailing a latest model Jaguar XF Diesel ‘S' for highway pursuit duties.
Now before you laugh, it's more than a 1.5 seconds quicker to 100 km/h than a petrol Commodore SV6's used by our police highway patrol. Note the similar colour scheme.