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...teapots to sport-utility vehicles. So in the battle for our wallets, design has become a more critical component. "With all the noise out there, the trick now is to be as creative as you can in observing and then interpreting your expressive abilities," says Jerry Hirshberg, president of Nissan Design International, which, by the way, has been commissioned to design not just cars but also golf clubs and yachts and, most recently, to remake the Los Angeles Times...
...want to wait for the next recession in the U.S.? Consider buying Japanese auto stocks now. The economy there is bad but not getting worse. And Toyota, Honda and Nissan are well positioned to benefit from the next hot vehicle--the car-SUV hybrid. The bell ringer in that group is the Lexus RX300, which has seen sales explode 150% this year. It's built on a car frame, not a truck frame, yet sits above traffic, satisfying the No. 1 reason consumers give for buying an SUV. Swapping U.S. for Japanese car stocks isn't unpatriotic...
...turn, the Germans began to listen. The watershed moment came when the Yanks (with a little inside help) persuaded Schrempp in March to drop a long-standing bid to buy Japan's Nissan Motors. Schrempp wanted Nissan badly, to consolidate his empire, and he had been negotiating with an absolutely desperate Yoshikazu Hanawa, Nissan's chairman. But the Americans, who would have been saddled with turning Nissan around, had been uncomfortable with the plan from the start...
...Another car slows down near our section of the line. It's a late-model black, Nissan Pathfinder. A window rolls down and a middle-aged woman with a perm, heavy eye-liner, and a flashy adornment of jewelry scans the crowd...
...bought a Nissan 200SX in 1979 and never learned to live with its rear end, which fishtailed all over the highway in slick and rainy weather. And the astronomical cost of replacement parts finally finished whatever predilection I had for Japanese cars. WILLIAM ORR Picayune, Miss...