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...Denver last month was shipped up from Mexico.) Land Rover manufactured the first Popemobile for his visit to Britain in 1982, shortly after the Pontiff survived an assassin's bullet. Since then, almost everywhere John Paul went, new Popemobiles were sure to appear -- manufactured and generally donated by Renault, Peugeot, GM, Toyota and Mercedes Benz, among others. Last week, on his trip to the Baltic states (his 61st foray out of the Holy See), the Pope took along his Mercedes and Land Rover models...
They prefer softer names, like Islamists or fundamentalists, but these were trained killers. They loaded their bomb on a motorcycle and slipped it between two parked cars on a narrow, tree-shaded street outside the American University campus in downtown Cairo. As Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi's black Peugeot rolled past, the terrorists triggered the bomb, blasting ball bearings at the Minister's motorcade and passersby on the crowded sidewalk...
...were named after the Crown Prince of Monaco (a member of the Monegasque bobsled team). The Winter Games are chill, Nordic, taciturn -- redolent of Ingmar Bergman and dark Decembers. Instead of sprints and dives, they offer double Axels (not what you find on the bottom of your Peugeot) and luges (which one American Congressman took to be something...
...executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which voted last spring to require that all cars in Southern California operate on electricity or other clean fuel by the year 2007. "This is what we were hoping to stimulate." Automakers have also been tinkering along these lines. Peugeot and Fiat have announced plans to sell electric vehicles in Europe within the next few years, and Ford is testing an electrified model of the Aerostar van. Not to be left behind, GM Chairman Roger Smith announced last week that his company will proceed with commercial production of its sleek...
...Europe's restructuring will give the company a strategic edge as European trade barriers fall. Compared with such competitors as Fiat and Peugeot, which are focused on their home markets, GM's manufacturing and marketing operations are now spread over many markets. "In twelve of 17 countries in which we sell, GM is among the top three producers," says GM Europe president Robert Eaton...