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...Ford loves customers like Gail Reed. Last April, a few months before 0% financing wiped out profit margins on such standard models as Windstars and Tauruses, Reed, an Atlanta accountant, saw a picture of a pearl-white Thunderbird convertible and fell in love. She agreed to pay the full $39,000 sticker price and willingly waited nearly a year for delivery, driving off with her baby a few weeks ago. "I've always owned sensible cars," says Reed, 43 and single. "Then I started thinking, this T-Bird is a great-looking, fun car. If I'm ever going...
More and more drivers are asking the same question, resurrecting the ragtop from near extinction. And not just at Ford. Today the market is flooded with 30 convertibles, up from about a dozen six years ago. Over the same period, registration of new convertibles is up 63%, according to R.L. Polk & Co. The new fleet ranges from family-oriented cruisers like the Toyota Camry Solara to such trophy hot rods as the Lexus SC 430. At next week's New York International Auto Show, carmakers from Audi to Mercedes will show off new models. Even Chevy's pickup division...
...original Morris Mini was the automotive mouse that roared its way through 1960s Britain, driven by Beatles John and Paul and bought by more fans than any car since the Ford Model T. It was barely 4 ft. high and 10 ft. long; American lovers of the Cadillac and Suburban never really got it. But now we're getting a second chance...
Harvey Nichols, a store that is often credited with starting the current dining trend, is planning a complete renovation this summer of its 10-year-old Fifth Floor Restaurant and Bar, overlooking London's Knightsbridge. "We have to stay ahead of the times," says Dominic Ford, Harvey Nichols' restaurant and food retail director. "When we created this floor I wanted a restaurant that happened to be on top of a department store, not vice versa. It had to be high-caliber enough to bring people in, and that is why we have been successful." So successful, in fact, that Harvey...
...Terry Ford was the tenth white farmer to be killed since the government-backed occupation of white-owned farms by so-called war veterans began two years ago. The day after Mugabe's inauguration speech, in which he raged against traitorous "snakes" and vowed to accelerate his "land reform" policy, 55-year-old Ford was dragged from his home at Norton, about 40 km west of the capital, Harare, by a gang of about 20 men, tied up against a tree and shot in the head. Later the police recovered a firearm and arrested six men who, they said, would...