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...Brands: Putting price aside, affluent Americans voted Ralph Lauren the best clothing brand (15%), followed by Brooks Brothers (12%) and Armani (11%), according to the TIME online poll. Mercedes (22%), Lexus (16%) and BMW (15%) were voted best automotive brands and Clinique the best beauty/grooming brand (11%) followed by Neutrogena (10%) and Est?e Lauder...
...upstarts like Geely and Chery, it's a formidable task to pierce the cutthroat U.S. market, in which only a handful of sophisticated players (Honda, Toyota, BMW) consistently post profits. Geely was founded as a maker of refrigerators in 1986 and shifted to cars in 1998; Chery launched its first model in 2000. And although Chinese vehicle quality is improving, it lags Western standards by wide margins. Chery's QQ model, for instance, had an average 391 problems per 100 vehicles, according to J.D. Power's latest initial-quality survey. For U.S. models, the average is 118. Chinese manufacturers must...
...like to see our very own Santa Summers and his physical plant elves deliver us few Christmas renovations as soon as possible after we return from our long winter’s naps. Our wishlist:Ten: Fix the carwash outside of Canaday. Astronomer or Aston-Martin? ESPP or BMW? Students making their daily treks to the Science Center or Memorial Hall after a heavy rain are treated to a real, live wash down without the hand-toweling or the Turtle Wax. The depression in the brick by the gate near Canaday fills up with six inches of rainwater just...
...down from 340,000 in 1993.) The Asian companies have grown the fastest. Toyota, which plans to overtake GM soon as the world's largest automaker, has 11 U.S. plants and expects to open a truck factory in San Antonio, Texas, in 2006. European brands, including BMW and Mercedes-Benz, are also growing. CAR estimates that foreign automakers operating in the U.S. add 1.8 million jobs to the American economy, including white-collar, dealership and supplier positions--from partsmakers to the bartenders at post-whistle watering holes...
...feel like braving the traffic? Then Monoonphol might come to you, assuming you have sufficient cachet. He drops in on society ladies, and personally attended to Whitney Houston when she was in town, carting his collection around in the trunk of his BMW. If the buzz is anything to go by, he may soon be trading up to a cargo plane...