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SACRAMENTO: The California Department of Motor Vehicles is blocking Chrysler from resupplying the state with new Chrysler cars for 45 days after dealers resold 116 "lemons" to California drivers. The breakdown-prone cars were bought back from unhappy drivers and resold by dealers after some repair work but without, state officials charge, properly disclosing that the cars had had previous problems or giving out the correct warranties. Chrysler will appeal the decision, which may indefinately delay the ban on the corporation restocking dealerships with vehicles. "This ruling is a lemon the size of the Yellow Submarine," says TIME's William...
Driscoll originally pleaded not guilty to the four charges, which also include assault in the third degree with a motor vehicle and a motor vehicle infraction. He will be sentenced on November 15 and faces a maximum sentence of 11-and-a-half years in prison, according to Assistant State's Attorney David S. Shepack...
That's one reason many competitors in the race for a new engine remain exceedingly dubious. "I consider Rosen Motors to be a very small part of the overall flywheel effort," says Joe Beno, program manager for the electric-vehicle program at the University of Texas at Austin, whose group will put a flywheel motor in a commercial bus in Houston next year. Kevin M. Myles, director of the electrochemical technology program at Argonne National Laboratory, who has done extensive work with alternative-fuel vehicles, doesn't think the Rosens have addressed the safety problems inherent in flywheels. A wheel...
...throw McNamara overboard during a ferry ride to Martha's Vineyard in 1972. Many of Hendrickson's scenes and anecdotes first appeared in the Washington Post in the mid-'80s. Here the journalist looks further into McNamara's brilliant careers at the Harvard Business School and the Ford Motor Co. The record reveals a top-of-the-line number cruncher steeped in the values of corporate loyalty. But as Secretary of Defense, his mistakes cost lives, not shareholder dividends. And yet his responsibilities required a level of abstraction and analysis that seems to have put him on another planet. Hendrickson...
AUTO RACING Proposed marketing restrictions could put the brakes on tobacco-fueled motor sports...