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Whoa. Just a decade ago, Nissan was synonymous with Japan Inc., the business goliath that was devouring America. The auto company's fuel-thrifty sedans and zippy 240Z sports car put the fear in Detroit long before the Toyota Camry or Honda Accord ever saw a drafting table. Nissan's success gave weight to the myth that Japanese companies were run by enlightened executives who worked in frictionless synchronicity with workers to produce superior cars. In his best-selling book The Reckoning, David Halberstam suggested that U.S. industry, namely the Ford Motor Co., would be consigned to a never-ending...
...that counts. Dennis Blommers, a plant manager for Magna's Decoma division, which specializes in exterior systems, has been along for much of the company's ride to success; he now oversees 300 employees who engineer and make high-tech plastic bumper covers and grilles for Chrysler, GM and Honda at a plant near the company's headquarters in Aurora, Ont., about 20 miles north of Toronto. "Each year we get more and more into what the customers are asking for," he yells over the roar and hiss of 15 molding machines. "In the old days, a customer would have...
...Theater System is what people mean when they say fully loaded. The $2,800 in-car system, which will be available in April, includes a dashboard-mounted screen and a shock-resistant DVD player, as well as high-fidelity speakers. Since it costs roughly twice what my old Honda Civic is worth, I won't be buying it. Nor will I be outfitting my wreck with Visteon's Rear-Seat Entertainment Center ($1,300), a system that houses a monitor, a video deck and a Nintendo 64 video-game console. But I suspect a lot of other people will scoop...
...accident that our list is almost entirely American. It does include Sony's Akio Morita, and it arguably could include a handful of other leaders from abroad, notably Japan's Soichiro Honda and Eiji Toyoda (Toyota), Italy's Giovanni Agnelli (Fiat) and Australia's Rupert Murdoch (now a U.S. citizen). But if the 20th century was, as Luce also said, the American Century, it was largely because our system, espousing freedom of markets and freedom of the individual, rewarding talent instead of class and pedigree, bred a group of leaders whose single-minded fixation on getting rich--and creating great...
...bird! It's a plane! No, it's Suzuki's Hayabusa (Japanese for falcon), said to be the fastest "street-legal" sport bike ever made. Its 1,300-cc engine and aerodynamic design enable the bike to reach 186 m.p.h., leaving the current champ, the Honda Blackbird, in the dust. What good is having a vehicle that can go three times the speed limit? Ask any guy with a Ferrari...