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...million operating profit in its second quarter, vs. a $1.2 billion loss a year earlier. Chrysler brand sales were up 17% in July over a year ago, and the company has orders for nearly 90,000 of the 300--making the launch Chrysler's strongest since that of the Jeep Grand Cherokee in the early 1990s. Says Chrysler Group CEO Dieter Zetsche: "We want to attack on the car side...
After graduating in '92, Gilles landed at Chrysler, where he rose fast. At 31 he was appointed one of just seven studio chiefs. What got him noticed? "Probably my mouth," he says. "I've been pretty outspoken from Day One." While designing the interior of the Jeep Liberty, his first production vehicle, he got in a fight over chrome ornamentation, which other executives were convinced was too pricey. He recalls a meeting that wasn't going his way. "I got really emotional," he says. "For the first time in my life I made an impassioned plea to the marketing guys...
...jeep costs $200 for two days. Go with a Srinagar-based tour company, like SITA World Travels, tel: (91-194) 247 7777, or Travel Connection, tel: (91-194) 245 5407. If you have more time, make your return journey via the Leh-Manali road?another two-day trip across stunning mountainsides. You won't even be under enemy observation...
...April 4, 1996, the Edwardses' son Wade was driving his Jeep south on I-40 to the family beach house for spring break. His parents were to join him a few hours later. Wade was their pride and joy, an old soul who was close to his father and had won a top spot in a Voice of America essay contest, the son who helped the father up the mountain. But somewhere near Warsaw, N.C., that day, a gust of wind caught Wade's black Grand Cherokee and spun it out of control. After several swerves, the car flipped over...
...violence raged in several Sunni towns west of Baghdad on April 8, Mohammed Rifat steered his green Jeep Cherokee out of the gates of Abu Ghraib prison, where he worked as a construction foreman for a Kellogg Brown & Root subcontractor. Rifat, 41, who returned to Iraq in February after 24 years in Toronto, was heading home to care for his aging mother. He never made it. Somewhere in the night, his family believes, kidnappers stopped his vehicle and spirited him away. This is everyone's worst nightmare in the new Iraq. A bewildering variety of groups--some seeking money, some...