Days after Lithia Motors Inc. said it had agreed to a deal to acquire Pendragon’s dealership and fleet businesses, Pendragon’s board of directors rejected a joint offer from a Penske Automotive Group subsidiary and Hedin Mobility Group.
The joint venture between Magna International and minority-owned LAN Manufacturing made the move in response to the UAW strike that has halted production of the Ford Bronco in nearby Wayne, Mich.
Unifor plans to have members vote on its tentative agreement with Ford Motor Co. of Canada “before the end of the week,” though precise timing for ratification meetings is still being finalized, a union spokesperson told Automotive News Canada Wednesday.
Theme Park Rangers Radar looks up to the sky and down into its grammar handbook this week with an exploration of Walt Disney World attraction names thanks to Epcot’s Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana and a natural phenomenon, which means party time at Orlando Science Center.
Radar is a weekly roundup of things to see, do and punctuate at Central Florida’s theme parks and attractions. It is published weekly at OrlandoSentinel.com on Wednesdays.
Attraction names have featured all manner of punctuation. We went through a colon phase (Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge) and a pinch of dashes (Pandora – the World of Avatar). And let’s not get started on exclamation points (!).
Now, coming to Epcot, the comma, as in Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana, which officially opens Oct. 16.
I could only find one other comma-infested name in Walt Disney World history: “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!,” a 4-D film attraction at Epcot.
Back in the day, names were less complicated. Jungle Cruise, Mission to Mars, Haunted Mansion, Swiss Family Treehouse, Tom Sawyer Island are early, pretty straightforward Magic Kingdom attractions. But there also was “it’s a small world,” with its quotation marks and teacher-taunting lower-case styling. There was no Flight, Inspired by Peter Pan.
GM stopped building the Chevy Malibu and Cadillac XT4 on Wednesday after running short of stampings made at a Missouri plant that’s on strike. Stellantis said it was laying off workers at an Ohio machining plant and expected to make more layoffs in Indiana.