Word: minivan
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...several types of vehicles on one assembly line, which can cut investment 25% for a new model and allow for efficiently altering the model mix based on changes in demand. At Toyota's operation in Princeton, Ind., a single line cranks out the full-size Sequoia SUV and Sienna minivan. What's novel: the Sequoia is built on a frame, while the Sienna, as a "unibody" vehicle, isn't. Toyota's line is the first in North America to assemble such fundamentally different vehicles. By 2005, five of Toyota's nine U.S. lines will produce multiple models, accounting...
This road, I've been told, leads to paradise. Everyone says my journey to the pristine village of Yubeng in the northwest corner of China's Yunnan province will take my breath away. I'm breathless alright. But for all the wrong reasons. My minivan is careening along a tiny ledge of compressed rubble, gouged out of a steeply pitched ravine, a few hundred meters above a tributary of the Mekong. I'm convinced I'm seconds away from becoming part of one of the small avalanches the van is leaving in its wake...
...Marines are video-game twitchy. They shoot up a minivan with a woman and child, fearing it is full of explosives. For an hour or so, the stress of the morning threatens to unleash lethal chaos. It isn't until American sniper teams set up on rooftops that order is restored. "These guys are more on the edge because they're sitting out in the open with vehicles coming at them," says Staff Sergeant Dino Moreno, a sniper. "We can fire into the grille or the tire. We're trying to prevent as many civilians from getting killed as possible...
...social than most Americans. They tend to like fine restaurants a lot more than off-road driving, seldom go to church and have limited interest in volunteer work." But Bradsher admits SUV buyers don't necessarily have all those traits; they are just more likely to have them than minivan owners. Last week Kelley Blue Book, an auto-information company, released a survey of new-vehicle buyers who had visited its website; respondents said the No. 1 attribute of SUV drivers is that they are "family oriented," not self-oriented...
...were set off by a remote-controlled device, most likely a mobile phone. But TIME has learned that investigators now believe both explosions were probably set off by suicide bombers. Sources familiar with the investigation say the main bomb?up to 100 kilos of explosives packed into a Mitsubishi minivan?was most likely detonated by a suicide bomber who was inside the vehicle...