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...Reverse Gear DaimlerChrysler announced a worldwide recall of 1.3 million Mercedes-Benz vehicles sold between 2001 and 2004. Customer complaints prompted the decision to fix brakes, alternators and batteries...
Score one against the establishment. Good riddance, corporate world. Don’t let the garage door hit your Benz...
...extravagant silhouette, even that car gets competition from the 1930 Mercedes-Benz SSK, customized along almost sinister lines by Italian Count Carlo Felice Trossi. In the '30s it was still common for auto firms to deliver their most luxurious cars merely as a chassis, engine and drive train, sometimes also with a basic body, leaving it to the buyer and his "coach builder" to finish the product along their own lines. With his now forgotten British builder, Trossi crafted a long body with pontoon fenders that ended in tapering points. So did the swelling tongue of the trunk, creating...
...some of the most interesting vehicles on display will be small, even tiny. Audi will showcase a model called the A3, a 200-h.p. hatchback sold in Europe and coming to U.S. dealers in May. Mercedes will unveil its smallest import, a wagonlike "sport tourer" dubbed the Baby Benz, expected to start around $25,000. And get this: DaimlerChrysler will officially launch in the U.S. the Smart brand that has been such a hit on Europe's narrow roads--showing off models like the Fortwo, a two-seat runt you could practically stuff into a Hummer. Mercedes-Benz, which...
...winning important labor concessions. Siemens just sealed deals with workers in two of its mobile-phone factories to increase the workweek from 35 to 40 hours--with no increase in pay. And DaimlerChrysler won $600 million in wage concessions from its workers after threatening to move 6,000 Mercedes-Benz factory jobs from a Stuttgart suburb to lower-cost factories in northern Germany and South Africa. Such battles are bitterly divisive, but they may be necessary if Germany is to become competitive again. Longer hours without more pay would boost growth. Yet longer hours with more pay, as some unions...