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Eduardo Sosa, the antihero of “Dance with Snakes,” is an unemployed and restless sociologist who becomes obsessed with a beat-up yellow Chevrolet that parks on the street across from his apartment. Sosa follows its owner—the wretched Jacinto Bustillo—for one day before he unceremoniously kills the man and discovers his secret: Bustillo owned a group of talking snakes, a tetramer of assassins Sosa takes to fondly calling his “ladies.” The snakes, who Sosa names Beti, Loli, Valentina, and Carmela, are the impetus...
Toprak believes that Toyota's problems could prompt consumers to take a second look at American brands such as Ford and Chevrolet and could also boost Korean nameplates such as Hyundai and Kia, which have lineups that closely match Toyota's. Even European luxury makers such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW, which have been eclipsed by Toyota's Lexus brand, could benefit, he says...
...Polo, which will be manufactured at Chakan, 110 miles (175 km.) from Mumbai. India will also be the lead country for Honda Motors' planned global small car - tentatively named the 2CV - which will begin selling by the end of 2011. Struggling General Motors began producing the pint-sized Chevrolet Spark in India last year and plans to roll out another compact, the Chevrolet Beat, in the first half of 2010, while Ford Motors CEO Alan Mulally unveiled a made-in-India four-door hatchback, the Figo, in New Delhi in September...
Susan Docherty is on the front lines in terms of rebuilding the company's relationship with consumers, which has been a disaster. "In large parts of this country, their cars just aren't relevant," says a former GM executive. Vehicles like the new Chevrolet Camaro show that GM is capable of building good, attractive vehicles, says a senior executive at a rival automaker, but "it's all the other stuff that gets...
...sales in the U.S. are improving, aided by cash-for-clunkers, as well as positive consumer response to the Camaro, Buick LaCrosse and Cadillac SRX. In addition, new compact crossover vehicles, the GMC Terrain and Chevrolet Equinox, have sold so well that GM is adding a third production shift at an assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ont. Since mid-September, when it began offering to take back vehicles from dissatisfied customers, only a tiny fraction of the cars GM has sold have come back to dealers, Docherty notes. "We've sold 300,000, and we've had 163 physical returns...