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...appeared to have come from the Tonbridge haul at a southeast London bank. By the weekend, all three had been released on bail. But two more were arrested on Saturday, and a number of vehicles thought to have been connected to the raid were detained in Kent. Dixon's Nissan was found at the Cock Horse pub, and a red van that the gang is thought to have used turned up at another inn, the Hook and Hatchet. (We are not making this up.) On Friday, following a tip-off--that big reward talking, maybe--the police picked...
Smiling broadly and looking dapper in a powder blue shirt, pin-striped suit and bright red tie, Renault ceo Carlos Ghosn doesn't look like your typical corporate hatchet man. Back in 1999, however, Ghosn was dubbed the "samurai" and "cost killer" at Nissan Motor in Japan. As the newly appointed president, he began closing plants, slashing over $20 billion in debt, and eliminating over 20,000 jobs to turn the moribund company profitable. Many observers - especially unions - expected similar tough love in early February, when Ghosn unveiled his ambitious four-year business plan for Renault, which...
...purely national or European terms. "I understand the astonishment and emotion" the bid caused, said Luc Chatel, a lawmaker from President Jacques Chirac's ump party. But he pointed out that the French find it natural for automaker Renault to buy a controlling stake in its Japanese rival Nissan, and added: "What do you prefer? To see European industries shift production to India, or to see Indians investing in Europe...
...outside Tuxpan where his grandmother was born, highlights just how far Coria has come. His grandmother's people still live in sloping clapboard shacks with dirt floors. Coria's home in Tuxpan is a porticoed five-bedroom residence in the center of town, and he drives a late-model Nissan Pathfinder. In the front of his vast garden are orchids and lilies he brought from the Hamptons. In the back are groves of guava, orange and avocado. But Coria's pursuit of success has taken a heavy toll. Being just about the only Mexican gardener in the Hamptons when...
Thanks to newer technology, the foreign manufacturers are more efficient too. The Big Three are closing the productivity gap; GM takes 23 hours of labor to produce one vehicle, down from 32 hours in 1998. But that's still longer than Toyota's 19.4 hours per vehicle and Nissan's 18.3. The real question, of course, is what kind of cars Americans want. Honda's timing at East Liberty was near perfect: its fuel-efficient Civic rolled off the line just as consumers were looking for ways to save on gas costs. "We're in a battle for survival right...