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...with his 6-ft. 2-in., 230-lb. frame hunched in the backseat of a speeding Jeep Grand Cherokee, Fieger didn't seem in the mood to sit quietly through a holy event. It would only interrupt his nonstop rant about the shortcomings of his opponent, Republican incumbent John Engler. "He's a cheater, a liar and a coward," said Fieger. "He's a man of mediocre intelligence who's never done anything in life but suck off the public trough." The Engler camp, meanwhile, is clinging desperately to higher ground. "Fieger can roll in the mud by himself," says...
Attention, NASA: if you're looking for three humans who like head rushes and can go the distance in uncomfortable machines, try Georgia. In March, Six Flags over Georgia offered a Jeep to the person who rode the Scream Machine, a roller coaster, for the longest time. After 60 days, the park declared a three-way tie. JONATHAN THOMPSON, DARTHY BROWN and DION HUGHES, left to right, had spent 17 hours a day riding the rails, with small breaks for food. "Any of us was willing to go 100 days," says Hughes. "I just adapted to an everyday...
Before we head into the station, Officer Derosiers sorts out a motor vehicle accident, deftly mediating between five teenagers whose car's front grill is missing and a woman in a new Jeep whose license has expired...
...first time Chinese Vice Premier Zhu Rongji made his presence felt in the U.S. was back in 1985, when American Motors' high-profile, $24 million China investment, Beijing Jeep, was on the verge of collapse. Don St. Pierre, who headed the venture, appealed to a series of Beijing officials for help but got no response. Back in Detroit, where he had been summoned for a crisis conference, he suddenly received a telex from Zhu, then the obscure vice chairman of the State Economic Commission. "Please send a high-level delegation to China immediately, and we will solve this problem...
That is just one parable of the car as an accomplice of history. Other stories are poignant (the Okies on the road in the Dust Bowl), and some are epic (the jeep in the war). The symbiotic ecology of car and economy, which continues to this day, gave rise to the motel (the first chain, Holiday Inn, started in 1952) and to the Golden Arches (Ray Kroc bought the fledgling roadside food chain of the McDonald brothers in 1961). Las Vegas grew out of traffic, with Californians driving in on Highway 91 at the rate of 20,000 a weekend...