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...have to be living under a rock-or perhaps driving a Ford Pinto-to be unaware that Japanese auto manufacturers have conquered foreign markets. Toyota recently passed GM to become the world's largest carmaker, and even runner-up brands like Honda are in better shape than their struggling American counterparts. But back home, the news isn't so golden. Thanks to an aging, shrinking population and lackluster consumer spending, sales of full-size vehicles in Japan last year were the lowest since 1977. Mighty Toyota may have posted a record global profit of $18.6 billion...
...father had been an operator at India's National Thermal Power Corp., a job that paid well and enabled him to give all his four daughters a good education. Pravin wanted to keep Smita the way her father had. His motorbike, a black-and-gold 97-cc Hero Honda Splendor Plus, cost him just over $1,000, a fortune considering he made just a few hundred dollars a year. "I told him it was not affordable, not needed," says his father Vijay. "He said he needed it to get to the fields. The young these days-they want more luxuries...
...Golf. After years of a few players dominating, the arrival of the Williams sisters spawned a Tiger Woods effect, heightening global competition. Today, Asia is the fastest-growing sector in TV, with women's golf in Japan garnering double the ratings of the men. That's one reason Honda is the sponsor of the LPGA's new Thailand tournament...
...cloudless afternoon early last fall, Honda CEO Takeo Fukui stood by his company's test track outside Tokyo and watched a group of journalists take the company's environmental future for a spin. After test-driving Honda's multimillion-dollar hydrogen-fuel-cell concept car--very, very carefully--I sat down with Fukui to talk about his company's big bet on clean automobiles. As a young engineer in 1972, Fukui designed the first engine capable of meeting the 1970 Clean Air Act's emission standards without a costly catalytic converter, making Honda one of the first car companies...
TINY CARS Sales of fuel-efficient models like the Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris and Nissan Versa rose more than 40% over '05, in step (for a while) with gas prices...