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...BUSINESS Sony vs. Honda: Robot wars...
...lifted by a 24 percent gain in sales of pickups, SUVs and minivans and suddenly the king of Detroit again, estimated that the industry's total U.S. sales would be up about 2.5 percent for the month. (Toyota, Honda and Volkswagen also posted inched-up U.S. sales numbers Wednesday.) That puts the industry on an annual U.S. sales pace of some 18 million vehicles, far stronger than originally estimated and enough - if they can keep it up - for carmakers to log one of the best U.S. sales years in history...
...auto industry wants to take another crack at it. A hybrid version of the Honda Civic, the best-selling compact car in America, started rolling into dealerships nationwide last week. Next year Ford, which has produced a string of electric cars, is expected to be the first U.S. manufacturer to introduce a hybrid vehicle. I took the politically correct version of the six-cylinder Escape for an exclusive spin earlier this month. Meanwhile, Toyota, General Motors and Chrysler have all promised a new crop of hybrid vehicles by 2004. J.D. Power & Associates, which tracks consumer tastes for the auto industry...
...will realize that wasting cheap gasoline carries with it costs in the form of respiratory illness, the threat of climate chaos, and pathetic deference to authoritarian and anti-American regimes in the Middle East. When these pennies eventually drop, some consumers may think, "gee, maybe I'll buy a Honda" (Honda was the sole auto company to support an increase in fuel efficiency). If just a tiny percent of consumers decide to choose brands that are friends of the earth, that could be the difference between a winning or losing quarter when companies report profits. That's when executives will...
...Nesson pulls out of the cemetery parking lot in his two-door Honda Civic, a burned CD starts spinning in the stereo...