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...which roughly translates as "Whose round is it?" although the driver insists it means "Who am I having sex with next?" There are also several ads for premier banking services, a weather-beaten, 1970s-era hotel offering rooms at $600 a night and a billboard hawking a new model Peugeot ($40,000) behind the slogan: "Don't think about it. Just...
...Mohammed (not his real name) never knows which van he'll get when he arrives for his shift at the dispatch center in downtown Baghdad. The ten vehicles on the lot are a mix of imports, including Nissans, Toyotas and Mercedes. If he's lucky, Mohammed will get a Peugeot. "It's the easiest to handle," says the shy, skinny young man who speaks in a raspy whisper. "And it's the fastest...
...hottest seats in European business these days are in the auto industry. Last week, Volkswagen, Peugeot and Fiat all announced that they're trading in their chief executives. That leaves just highly profitable Porsche as the only significant European auto firm not to have switched bosses in the past 18 months. The turnover reflects upheaval in the industry worldwide as firms not only jostle to take advantage of new markets in Asia and elsewhere, but also struggle with unrelenting cost pressures at home. The big surprise came at VW. Bernd Pischetsrieder had just signed a new contract...
...became the first Iranian woman to compete against men in any sport; from participating in a race at the capital's Azadi Stadium; in Tehran. Despite a recent fatwa allowing women to race against men, stewards prevented Seddigh from entering the driver's seat of her 1,600-cc Peugeot just 206 minutes before the race, citing "security reasons." Seddigh, the 2005 champion of Iran's once all-male racing circuit, scoffed that racing officials "were afraid that I would win again...
...traffic. When he walked onto the Debussy stage, flanked by Reeves and Downey, Linklater wanted the audience to know that Scanner was, among other things, a comedy. Yet the movie never matched the onstage raillery of Downey, who grabbed the mike and announced, "Would the person with the Peugeot please move your goddam car? You're blocking traffic on the Croisette...