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With a roar of well-tuned exhaust, I took off for a test drive to Hell and $ back. (That's Hell, Mich., 30 miles distant, a tiny town consisting of little more than a creek, a grocery store and a bar called the Dam Site Inn.) Conditioned by years of driving subpar American subcompacts, I was genuinely surprised to find almost nothing at fault with the car. Spectacular it is not, but it is very good. And it comes loaded with the thoughtful amenities that have allowed the Japanese to outclass American automakers in the small-car market...
...workers cling resolutely to the Old World: a rigid, adversarial system characterized by strict seniority rules and a crippling multiplicity of job classifications. The result is a patchwork of different systems among GM plants, many of which are light-years behind the highly efficient Buick City factory in Flint, Mich., where the Buick LeSabre is produced. Overall, GM has made virtually no gains in productivity and remains the highest-cost automaker in the U.S. In fact, the company has been losing money on its North American carmaking plants for several years and has had to rely for profits...
...rivals have already adopted some of the progressive techniques employed at Saturn. Ford, which is using Japanese-style team systems at many of its plants, has already improved so much that its efficiency matches that of the average Japanese plant in Japan. Chrysler's best factory, in Sterling Heights, Mich., is nearly as efficient as the newest Japanese plants and matches the average Japanese facility in quality...
...satire on the yearning of oppressed colonies to break free. The finest Irish drama of the 20th century, it is discerningly performed by the Abbey Theater of Dublin, at Washington's Kennedy Center through Oct. 21, then in St. Louis, Tucson and Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Abruptly, one of memory's custard pies sails out of a time warp and hits me in the snoot. The Times describes a fine restaurant, called the Tapawingo, serving cassoulet of morels, and veal with forest fettucine, dinners $22 to $32 with first course and salad, in -- SPLAT! -- Ellsworth, Mich. My reaction is dismay. Ellsworth doesn't belong in the Times. It belongs in my earliest memories, where it has been for the 40 years since I last saw it. Ellsworth is my grandfather's farm, with a huge scary bull, and the dark, musty air of the feedstore across...