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...loved them so much that I would agree to follow the rules. They seemed to buy the argument, and after two weeks the pleas started to slow down. Imagine my dismay then, when driving to a tee-ball game, one of my sons' teammates Charlie jumped into the minivan and shouted, "Spiderman is so cool. It is the most amazing movie. What was your favorite part?" I cringed and then from the backseat came the reply." I don' t have a favorite part because my mom loves me. I guess your mom doesn' t love...
...many cars have dual personalities: you're either a family sedan, a racy roadster, a minivan that no degree of swishy styling will sex up. Of course, carmakers try their best to convince consumers otherwise, producing performance editions, limited editions, two- and four-door flavors of the same model. It's done for the same reason we have Cherry Coke and a gazillion spinoffs of Law & Order ? everyone wants to maximize their "brand value." And this is especially true if you're in a capital intensive business like auto manufacturing, and your products stay on the market for years before...
...Shanghai Auto Show, Chery unveiled a convertible with a retractable hardtop, designed by Italy's Pininfarina studio, that won the award for best new car. Yale Zhang, an industry analyst in Shanghai with CSM Worldwide, an automotive consulting firm, says he expects Chery to begin exporting a minivan and a four-door sedan next year. Chery recently cleared two hurdles: settling a law-suit with GM over charges that it ripped off a design from GM's Daewoo subsidiary, and agreeing to find a new name for North American models?since Chery sounds like Chevy, GM had threatened to press...
...quite successfully run this country," she says. Marshall, who sees Clinton for lunch or other get-togethers every few weeks, advises the show's producers on life at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Sometimes they overrule her. They insisted that the fictional first children go to school by limo, not minivan as she suggested. But she did convince them that the Secret Service would stop someone from running upstairs in the White House and waking the President. And if they don't listen to her, there's Steve (Scoop) Cohen. A writer on the show, he was once a communications aide...
Mercedes designates its 2006 R-Class models as "sports tourers." Which is to say the R-Class isn't so much an SUV or a minivan--there's already a new M-Class for 2006--so much as a station wagon with a very serious superiority complex. The six leather seats practically wait at attention. The overly busy command-center dashboard console wants to trade business cards with a Gulfstream...