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...COOLEST TECHNOLOGIES The diesel-fueled hybrid Opel Astra, which gets 60 m.p.g; Ford's Mercury Meta One, a prototype of a hybrid-powered SUV; and BMW's H2R racer, fueled by liquid hydrogen. GM also will reveal the hybrid system it plans for full-size pickups and SUVs...
...WILDEST INTERIOR Ford's SYNus, right, features seats that can reverse to face the rear and a steering wheel that stows under the dash. The back door has a flat-screen...
...America. The reason is overcapacity. Although executives in Detroit would drink windshield-wiper fluid through a straw for the roughly 15% growth in car sales that China saw last year, in China that increase might be too slow to keep up with production. Foreign firms like GM, Volkswagen and Ford have invested billions of dollars in China to make far more cars than the market can absorb. Last year Chinese consumers bought about 2.2 million cars, and assembly lines in China should be able to make up to 8 million vehicles a year by 2010, even though the estimated market...
...1980s turned up their noses at the ultracheap Yugo, which Bricklin introduced from Yugoslavia, and Chery still has to meet U.S. safety and emissions standards. The real threat will come from foreign makers in China with nowhere to sell their cars. "If they can compete on price, Ford and Nissan will likely start exporting" to America within a decade, predicts Eric Harwit, a professor at the University of Hawaii who researches China's auto industry. The Cherys you'll soon see in car lots could be the vanguard for Detroit's own made-in-China cars. --By Matthew Forney/Beijing
...something you see in John Ford movies, but in the 1800s it was common for men--frontier-taming, campfire-building, heterosexual men--to share a bed. Mattresses were an indulgence, central heating nonexistent and, for travelers, private lodging scarce. Double bunking was so common that it rarely aroused questions of one's sexual orientation. But a book due out this week asserts that Abraham Lincoln engaged in the practice rather too often and too enthusiastically to avoid the conclusion that he was homosexual...