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Carlos Ghosn has every reason to have that bounce in his step at the annual Detroit Auto Show this week. The Brazilian president of Japan's Nissan Motor Co., now controlled by France's Renault, has been itching to unveil the dazzling new iteration of a sports car that once defined an affordable testosterone boost. Remember the 240Z, the long-nosed rocket that every boy just had to drive after it came out in 1970, later known as the fastest-selling sports car of its time? Monday, to cacophonous music and a panoply of strobe lights in the Motor City...
...learn how to navigate a wheelchair she directs via a breathing tube. Though not a bitter person by nature, she wants justice for missing out on her kids' lives, not to mention her own. So this week, in a Corpus Christi courtroom, Bailey's lawyers will take on Ford Motor Co. and its tire supplier, Bridgestone/Firestone. The charge: that a defective tire--and more important, a defective car--took her livelihood. The principal defendant: the top-selling SUV of the decade, the Ford Explorer. Says lead attorney Tab Turner: "You can't divorce the two. It's a bad tire...
...charged with negligent operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop for a police officer, resisting arrest and assault and battery of a police officer. He had originally been charged with armed assault with intent to murder, but that charge was later reduced to assault and battery of a police officer...
...promise of the hybrids is that consumers won't have to make sacrifices in style, performance or comfort to drive them. Unlike battery-electric vehicles, which are plugged into the power grid, hybrids combine a small gasoline engine with an electric motor and travel under their own power. When the Prius advances slowly or idles in traffic, the electric motor takes over, thus minimizing the pollution caused by stop-and-go driving. The gasoline engine powers the battery and kicks in for acceleration. When the car coasts or brakes, the motor becomes a generator, capturing the energy that would normally...
...brothers often watched their father work on his car and make repairs around the house. The boys built their own toys, turning bamboo tubes into pressurized chinaberry shooters and transplanting a lawn-mower motor onto a go-cart. Once, Johnson caused an explosion in his mother's kitchen while mixing, of all things, rocket fuel. He had got the recipe from a library book, using saltpeter and sugar. As it cooked on the stove, the mixture bubbled to the surface, filling the kitchen with so much smoke that young Lonnie couldn't see his hands, and burned a chair...