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...huge guinea pig?like capybaras. There are also over 300 species of bird, ranging from toucans to the magnificent 1.2-m jabiru stork. Visitors stay in a lodge with air conditioning, private bathrooms and spectacular river views. Tours can be arranged on horseback or foot, by boat or jeep, but the Pantanal itself is only accessible by charter flight. Rental prices for planes range from $1,800-$2,200, and accommodation is $150 per person per night. tel: (44-20) 7384 2332; www.cazloyd.com
...goes at BMW's M School, a two-day fantasy camp where amateurs can indulge their inner Jeff Gordon. Driving schools, offered by Audi, Jeep, Porsche and independent operators like Skip Barber, have grown popular in recent years. For automakers, it's all about branding, creating a vacation-like "experience" around a car. Last summer Chrysler extended its Camp Jeep event to California, luring 3,000 folks for two days of off-roading, and Porsche has started a similar program for fans of its Cayenne SUV. BMW runs several programs at its Performance Center in Spartanburg, S.C. At M School...
...creation of China's economic miracle, and they intend to ride it to riches, baijiu and rabbit ears notwithstanding. Clissold's memoir of his years with Perkowski-- 1995 to 2002--is an instant classic. The best "business" book previously written about China is probably Jim Mann's Beijing Jeep, an account of the ill-fated auto joint venture in China's early days of experimenting with capitalism. Mr. China (Harper Business; 252 pages) joins it at the top. Clissold, despite being a banker (now working at Goldman Sachs in Beijing), writes wonderfully. The book is sharply observed, funny as hell...
CHARGED. JUAN ALVAREZ, 25, disturbed laborer who, in an apparent aborted suicide attempt, allegedly abandoned his Jeep Cherokee on a heavily traveled commuter-rail track in Glendale, Calif., during the morning rush, causing a colossal derailment that left about 200 people injured and at least 11 dead; with 11 counts of murder with "special circumstances," making him eligible for the death penalty; in Los Angeles...
...Americans traded up to SUVs and roomier, performance-enhanced sedans and minivans. With gas prices up nearly 70% since 2002, however, and a crackdown on tailpipe emissions looming in California, automakers are preparing a blitz of downsized models, from hatchbacks to wagons and minivans; even a pint-size Jeep is in the works. "There's a lot of activity in the segment," says analyst Jeff Schuster of J.D. Power & Associates. He forecasts that small-vehicle sales, far from disappearing, will hold their own, rising from 13.7% of the market today...