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Captain Abdel Hadi was driving home from a long day's work as an officer in Iraq's new security force when gunmen pulled him over. Two white Oldsmobiles screeched around his Nissan pickup, and four men armed with AK-47 machine guns grabbed Hadi, blindfolded him and stuffed him into the trunk of a car. They drove him to a safe house in Fallujah, where, for five days in early August, he was tortured and interrogated by some of the insurgents who control the town. His captors, he says, beat his feet and legs with a pipe until...
...Many in the new class come with high-torque V-6 or V-8 engines and all-wheel drive for grippier road handling. With their lower centers of gravity, they score better in rollover tests than most SUVs do, with the Chrysler Pacifica earning top marks, followed by the Nissan Murano, Honda Pilot and Volvo XC90. (See results at safercar.gov...
What concerns analysts like Prudential's Michael Bruynesteyn is that Chrysler's mix of all-new or redesigned vehicles will be meager next year compared with that of rising rivals such as Honda and Nissan. And Chrysler has shown a penchant for resorting to costly incentives at the first whiff of sagging sales. Looking ahead, Zetsche says, "profitability is our No. 1 guiding principle," even if that means accepting a smaller share of the market. As for Gilles, he's hard at work on the next generation of Chrysler minivans. He won't breathe a word about their design...
...sense that nobody is panicking about this, and that makes me a little nervous," says Steve Girsky, senior automotive analyst at Morgan Stanley. It has happened before. In the 1970s, when gas prices soared, the Big Three were caught flat-footed with large, fuel-hungry cars, allowing Honda, Nissan and Toyota to swoop in and grab market share. If it happens again, the pain will be shared by Japanese manufacturers. Toyota is planning to ramp up production of its full-size pickup, the Tundra, with a plant under construction in San Antonio, Texas. And Nissan just bet on a line...
...Detroit native in charge of the company's Americas division, is taking the role of COO and much of the credit for Ford's $6 billion swing into profitability over the past two years. Padilla's push for quality helped the firm pull ahead of Volkswagen and Nissan in the latest J.D. Power & Associates survey. But Ford has to get a lot better to remain competitive. It still trails DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, not to mention the industry average, in the Power quality rankings. Padilla, who was also named chairman of automotive operations, needs to revive the faltering Mercury...