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...unsurpassed at manufacturing and mass-marketing reliable, well- engineered cars, the Japanese seem to have descended on Los Angeles specifically to master the improbable art of creating cars that thrill. The most successful California designs have been tough-but-smart, fun-but- practical Middle American vehicles (Toyota's Previa minivan, Nissan's Pathfinder, Isuzu's Trooper and Amigo) or else sports cars that temper the species' inherent sexiness with a certain grownup decorousness (the Celica, the Miata...
...supplies are uncertain, interest in alternative fuels for vehicles is suddenly stronger than it has been in years. From automakers to energy companies, the race to develop a clean and dependable substitute for gasoline is in full gear. Chrysler recently unveiled a battery-powered prototype of its popular minivan. GM is experimenting with automobiles that run on methanol, a form of alcohol that comes from such sources as coal and wood. United Parcel Service recently tested delivery trucks that burn propane rather than gasoline. Mercedes-Benz has developed a prototype car that runs on hydrogen...
Street Beat workers travel around in a minivan and a 31-ft.-long recreational vehicle, a wheeled medical-office-cum-rest-area equipped with an examination room, bathroom, shower and kitchen. The unit handles everything from minor scrapes and pregnancy screening to gunshot wounds. Forty-five percent of those tested for the AIDS virus are positive. "These kids operate outside the law and the health-care and social systems to such a degree that when they get on this van, they have no ID, no address, no nothing," says Ellen Flynn, 44, Street Beat's nurse practitioner...
...crowd chanted "Murph! Murph!" and "Ev! Ev!" as she left the hall. She talked with television reporters outside for about 10 minutes before climbing into a Voyager minivan and driving off to her next campaign stop...
...recent months is its lack of new products. But Chrysler executives point out that the K-car replacement models, the Dodge Spirit and Plymouth Acclaim, debuted in 1988 to generally good reviews and have sold consistently well since their introduction. Chrysler plans to roll out a new, streamlined minivan this fall and a new version of the Jeep Cherokee next year. Criticized for its reliance on Mitsubishi for sophisticated engines, which power Chrysler's hot new Plymouth Laser and Eagle Talon, the company has introduced a family of U.S.-built V-6 engines. The automaker's real product...