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...love-of-my-life sort of deal. It does make you feel reticent about talking about it at the beginning because you're not sure if it's real, if it's going to stick. I didn't want to pull an Anne Heche, sheepishly heading back to the car dealership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Carol Leifer, Late Bloomer | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...that automaker, cutting out the government, which is slated to become a majority owner. The creditors' new plan suggests giving them a controlling equity interest instead and keeping the government (i.e., American taxpayers) as a creditor. Obama has made it clear that he has no interest in running a car company, so this offer may be one worth considering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Creditors Scuttle a GM Deal Like Chrysler's? | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

With two of the Big Three automakers on the verge of collapse and Detroit's unemployment rate a staggering 22%, the film industry is providing a rare economic boom. Community colleges now offer courses in set-building and stage-lighting for the out-of-work construction workers and electricians. Car-rental companies, caterers, hotels, carpenters, dry cleaners and other service providers are all getting a needed boost. In the suburb of Troy, 20 miles (32 km) north of Detroit, one hotel was getting ready to cut staff when Gran Torino came to town. Instead of laying people off, the hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Detroit | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

Instructive, but we're still talking about burgers. What makes the Snyders' story worth reading is that it's as much cultural history as corporate. The company evolved in perfect sync with postwar Southern California, whose car culture and highway-fed suburbs blossomed as In-N-Out was building the first drive-throughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...They put us in this box, and we'll race like this until we kill somebody, and then they'll change it.' CARL EDWARDS, race-car driver, criticizing NASCAR for the design of the Talladega Superspeedway, after his car wrecked during the last lap of the Sprint Cup, injuring eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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