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...cars the public truly desires, you have to price them that way and use rebates to move the metal off the lots. "They are building cars that they don't want to build. They have to build them because they have a fixed cost structure to amortize," says Nick Gidwani, a former auto-industry investment banker with Sankaty Advisors and now head of the startup auto-sales website CarZen. Particularly after the post-9/11 sales slump, Detroit got addicted to this strategy and used it to move plenty of SUVs...
...opened up. The transplants have moved on to the sensual: the quality of materials, the look and touch of dashboard knobs, the sound a door makes, the feel of seats. Craftsmanship is the new point of difference. "The Japanese have figured out, How do we reduce friction?" notes Gidwani. "Now they are going to have to catch them in a new area...
Tired and bored, Colonel McCormick described himself as a "reporter looking for news." M. A. Gidwani of the United Press of India, also looking for news, asked McCormick what he thought about the dispute between India and Pakistan over the status of Kashmir (TIME, Jan. 9). Replied McCormick: "I did not know there was such a place before I landed here," thus convicted himself of failing to read his own newspaper"; the Trib's Delhi correspondent, Percy Wood, has filed full and accurate accounts of the dispute. Then McCormick made a tentative stab: "That is where the rugs come...
When affronted Reporter Gidwani suggested that Kashmir's future was a "very important question," McCormick disagreed. "American people," said he, "generally are not interested in happenings in countries very far from their own." Snapped Sorab Patell, reporter for Bombay's sensational tabloid weekly Blitz: "Are you interested in anything but yourself?" Barked Bertie: "An impudent question . . . What do you know about Alaska?" (Next day the Times of India pointedly printed a story about Alaska...
...Karachi Dr. Choithram Gidwani, faithful Gandhite lieutenant who was organizing a huge encampment for the forthcoming Nationalist Congress, was faced by some 400 dissatisfied "congress volunteers...
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