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That's why carmakers are redefining the long-forgotten small-car segment, for which they are dreaming up new vehicles like DaimlerChrysler's PT Cruiser and the Ford Escape. These latest creations may not be quite as fuel thrifty, but they are vast stylistic improvements over the lackluster econo-boxes of the 1970s and '80s. They have to be. The next generation wants a lot more for its money (or Mom and Dad's money), so today's small cars are bulging with what the trade calls content--everything from power windows to CD players to telescoping steering wheels...
...cars were sold, a minimally profitable 14% of the total. "The baby boomers are still the lion's share of the market," says Marty Levine, DaimlerChrysler's vice president of Chrysler Plymouth Jeep. That's precisely why DaimlerChrysler has been careful not to refer publicly to its new PT Cruiser--which is built on a small-car chassis and whose voluptuous curves are reminiscent of the cars of the '30s--as a youth attraction...
...leaving the club when the shots were fired. She hit the floor and then got up and exited as fast as possible." After Combs came out, the couple got into the rear seat of a 1999 Lincoln Navigator owned by his record company, which sped away past a police cruiser with flashing lights and through several red lights. When police stopped the car they reportedly found a 9-mm semiautomatic pistol on the floor of the front seat. They arrested Combs, his bodyguard, his driver and Lopez...
...Sometimes just seeing a police cruiser in the area is all it takes to stop a crime," Pasquarello says...
While the suspects waited outside the subway station surrounded by six uniformed officers, an HUPD police cruiser brought the victim to the scene...