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...have sat on best-of lists. They're also helpful aids to directorial research. John Singleton says he played hours of Turismo while preparing 2 Fast 2 Furious. He put the Nissan Skyline (which isn't sold in the U.S. and had to be imported from Japan) and the Mitsubishi Evo VII in the movie because they're in Turismo. "We wanted to get the cars that kids play with in the video games," he says...
...airbag in your car. They are also big business; in Europe, semiconductor manufacturers employ at least 100,000 people, according to industry estimates. Thus the slowdown has meant layoffs among the biggest manufacturers: Infineon, Geneva-based STMicroelectronics, the Dutch giant Philips, and others outside Europe like Motorola and Mitsubishi. Worldwide semiconductor sales peaked at $204 billion in 2000, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), and slipped to $141 billion last year. More than 100 chip manufacturing plants, called FABS, shut down as global demand evaporated. It has been a long cold lonely winter, but finally there are signs that...
...Chrysler, some analysts say it has little chance of becoming a low-cost producer any time soon. A handful of its new vehicles--the Pacifica wagon and Crossfire sports car--incorporate the prized engineering of its corporate sibling, Mercedes-Benz. By 2005, Chrysler will start using a Mitsubishi small-car platform. (DaimlerChrysler owns a controlling stake in Mitsubishi.) But Chrysler's annual run of 2.5 million vehicles comes from 15 plants and incorporates 11 platforms--an inefficient scheme...
...blasts 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...
...These days, Nadam drives a beat-up Mitsubishi Pajero for the General Federation of Iraqi Women. His rheumy eyes can only cope with daylight driving; Aadil, 27, takes over in the evenings. Between them, the men make 37,000 Iraqi dinars ($15) a month. That's not nearly enough to feed the family - even though, like all Iraqis, they get free rations of basic commodities such as flour, rice, cooking oil and sugar from the government. "All the money goes to buy medicines, or vegetables and meat," Nadam says, "we try to limit ourselves to spending 1,500 dinars...