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Washington wants smaller--or at least cleaner. At the Detroit show this year, the Big Three did their save-the-earth bit by displaying some "clean" concept cars. Chrysler unveiled its ESX2, which combines lightweight construction, plastic body panels and a hybrid power train (a small diesel engine, batteries and electric motor) to get 70 m.p.g. Ford displayed a concept vehicle fabricated out of aluminum, titanium and carbon fiber that gets up to 63 m.p.g. and weighs 40% less than a Taurus. Ford promised to adapt its Windstar minivan, classified as a truck, to meet lower emissions...
...reaping increased profits through technology. An executive of an engine company in Ohio tells of resolving an issue with colleagues on three continents in a one-day flurry of E-mail, a task that once would have taken weeks of memos and missed phone calls. At a Chrysler plant in Missouri, a shop steward describes labor-saving technology that his union members embraced because they see how their factory, which had been shut down in the late '80s, is now expanding. And the greatest collection of anecdotal insight, the stock market, has spent the year betting on ever increasing profits...
WALTER P. CHRYSLER 1928 Gunning for GM and planning the tallest skyscraper...
...would never have spent six years and half a billion dollars building a revolutionary car from the ground up. They could have settled for a "conversion," taking the frame of an existing model and stuffing it with electric components, much as Ford has done with its Ranger EV and Chrysler with its EPIC minivan...
Several auto manufacturers have expressed interest in using the Arthur D. Little reformer in their cars, said Derby. "We're having discussions with Honda and Toyota, and also with Chrysler," he said...