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...Down the Road Anyone who is in business in 2012 will get business. For all their problems, there's no question that the Detroit Three will have some competitive cars. GM has already made the case with its award-winning Chevy Malibu. The 2009 Buick LaCrosse recently topped all midsize competitors in the dependability ratings of J.D. Power & Associates. That's a positive sign, given that Buick is such an important brand for GM in China. Ford, which is in the best shape of the Detroit Three, has found success in its new Edge, in its F-150 pickup...
...downsized, revitalized U.S. car industry will still be playing catch-up. Millions of car buyers won't consider U.S. brands for some time to come; the perception that they are inferior lingers long beyond the reality that they are not. And foreign competition may increase: companies in Asia, such as China's Chery Automobile and India's Tata Motors, could plant their flags here. Established players like Volkswagen and Hyundai-Kia have plans to build plants in the U.S. by 2012. Which means the sales rate will be exceeded by manufacturing capacity, as it always...
...Either way, the car-buyng public is the winner: consumers will see better-built, more fuel-efficient cars and trucks - gas-powered, electrics and hybrids - that will meet their every desire. Obama's challenge is to make sure some of them come from Detroit...
...retired civil servant, knows how elusive justice can be. In 1993, his son Murat, a 24-year-old university student in Diyarbakir, stepped out to pay an electricity bill. According to witnesses, four men grabbed Murat off a busy street in broad daylight and pushed him into a waiting car. "It was as if the ground opened up and swallowed him," Aslan says...
Several months into the job, Aron threatened suicide in front of a girlfriend. After Army doctors cleared him, he returned to work. "For the two years he was in Iraq, I'd turn down the street and be terrified there'd be a car with a set of government plates on it when I got home telling me that he'd been killed," his father says. "Suicide was the last scenario I'd ever come up with...