Word: nissan
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...sons, proved adept at turning around an entrenched Japanese bureaucracy. Under his direction, Mazda was transformed from a floundering money loser to an automaker with net income of $66 million in its past fiscal year. Analysts hailed Fields as the next Carlos Ghosn--the executive who led Nissan's dramatic turnaround. Fields' bosses at Ford, which owns a controlling stake in Mazda, were so impressed that they handed him a bigger job: turbocharging Ford's troubled Premier Automotive Group (PAG), made up of Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo...
Back from way back: union membership in the private sector has dipped from 35% in the mid-'50s to 9% today. The U.A.W. is also losing some of its traditional members. Last fall Nissan autoworkers in Tennessee voted down union representation nearly 2 to 1. "It's a bit ironic that the mighty U.A.W. failed to gain votes from autoworkers," says David Denholm, president of the Public Service Research Foundation, an antiunion group, "and now it's making a big deal about representing a couple hundred dorm monitors...
Declarations like this one are an uncommon occurrence. In this case, the day of prayer coincided with the beginning of the Hebrew month of Nissan, which begins today...
...lately at Ford have started a movement among designers to stop listening to focus groups and start thinking about how their creations connect with real people. There are a few more inspiring cars out there these days - the Chrysler PT Cruiser, the Audi TT, and now maybe the Nissan Altima. But when will this be translated to the mass market? The really emotive mobiles - the '49, the GT40, the new Cadillacs - are priced beyond our reach. Toyota is trying. But with all the production technology out there, can't anyone start making a people's car that doesn't make...
...started a movement among designers to stop listening to focus groups and start thinking about how their creations connect with real people. There are a few more inspiring cars out there these days and you know which they are - the PT Cruiser, the Audi TT, and now maybe the Nissan Altima. But there's a problem. The really emotive mobiles - the '49, the GT40, the new Cadillacs - are priced beyond our reach. Toyota is trying. But with all the production technology out there, can't anyone start making a people's car - a real "Volkswagen" - that doesn't make...