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...buyers have always added features, a major profit driver for automakers and customizing shops that garners an estimated $26 billion-plus in sales each year. Gary Cowger, president of GM North America, says the trend toward personalization is evident in sales of the Hummer H2, a favorite of affluent baby boomers. Sales of accessories like running boards, brush guards and roof racks are "much better than we expected," he says...
...still only one way to be sane--enjoy your friends, family, faith and job--but every year there are new ways to be crazy. Like the automobile industry, which once sold only sedans and station wagons but now offers endless variations on the SUV (including two versions of the Hummer), the American Psychiatric Association now has an illness for almost every lifestyle. The current edition of its professional bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, contains--among scores of other diagnoses--a long list of specialized labels for a condition that was known in my grandmother...
...column can be directly attributed to her Dec. 7, 2001, column, subtly titled “Spit or Swallow? It’s all about the sauce.” The column, which affirmed that “swallow” is the only respectable decision for hummer practitioners, has been downloaded over 250,000 times from the Yale Daily News Web site and has circulated through e-mail lists, electronic bulletin boards and newsgroups across...
Thanks to the unprecedented bargains they offered in recent months, car dealers have cleared out most of their 2001 inventory and are getting more selective with their deals. Financing at 0% is now mostly limited to shorter, 36-month loans. Audi and Hummer are no longer offering special inducements, and at other carmakers, fewer models are on the sale rack. In general, however, buyers are still asked to choose between two types of incentive: cheap financing or a $2,000 to $3,000 cash rebate...
...bachelor, Kamen lives near Manchester in a hexagonally shaped, 32,000-sq.-ft. house he designed. Outside, there's a giant wind turbine to generate power and a fully lighted baseball diamond; in the basement, a foundry and a machine shop. Kamen's vehicles include a Hummer, a Porsche and two helicopters--both of which he helped design and one of which he uses to commute to work each day. He also owns an island off the coast of Connecticut. He calls it North Dumpling, and he considers it a sovereign state. It has a flag, a navy, a currency...