COMMENT: BMW goes Olympic
Author: Graeme Roberts | 16 December 2011
BMW's annual media get-together is sometimes good for a bit of controversial copy, such as the year the then-managing director took a shot at London's controversial congestion charge which was then reckoned to be costing the automaker's flagship dealership in Park Lane GBP1m a year.
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