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...work it has. In its first year of production last year SGM sold 20,000 Buick Century sedans--more than double the target--and declared a $75 million profit. In addition to the original model, the company has launched two new vehicles, including a minivan, which goes on sale this week, only five months after the plant geared up production for it. There have been plenty of problems and more than a few Mickey Mouse alarms along the way, but the auto plant has become a textbook example of how a joint venture in China can succeed--as well...
...bank had only $15 million in deposits. Then along came a miserly Pittsburgh, Pa., financier named J. Knox McConnell, who drove an old Buick and wore threadbare suits but was worth $23 million. He hired only women--"Knox's Foxes," they were called--to discourage distracting office romances. His longtime companion was Billie Cherry, a woman who worked for him. Cherry and her friend Terry Church followed Knox from Pittsburgh to Keystone. The bank moved aggressively into the national market for "subprime" home-equity loans, which are riskier than first mortgages but generate higher interest payments. Keystone was earning about...
Marie Wyman's 87th birthday celebration at the Lobster Trap & Steakhouse in Winslow, Maine, ended with a bang. As she backed out of a handicapped-parking spot, police say, Wyman lost control of her Buick and plowed right through the restaurant's crowded dining room. Tables and chairs scattered as terrified diners scrambled for cover. Twenty-seven people were injured, and police say it was a miracle that no one was killed in the July 25 crash. Tragically, that wasn't so in Los Angeles nine months ago, when Byron Cox, 96, a driver with dementia, ran over Brandi Mitock...
...worst fate in the world, but I had always loved to drive, and my few attempts to do so in rehab--driving a Buick with my fearless instructor, Giri Sipajlo, down New York City's F.D.R. Drive--proved unsatisfactory. I kept bumping other cars. Not very hard and not very seriously, but often enough. I gave...
Forget the race, creed and color thing. There is no sharper distinction among the citizens of the world than this: those who care passionately about cars and those who barely know a Buick from a bagel. Just so you know up front, they picked the wrong guy to write this story. Did not take auto shop in high school, never bought a can of STP, never watched a car race. And here I am on my way to Tennessee for the first of three NASCAR races in four weeks. The mission is to meet Jeff Gordon, the 27-year...