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With a muscular retro appearance, the Camaro plays on the baby-boomer generation's insatiable appetite for nostalgia. However, GM also has bets on several other new models, which are planted in key market segments critical to GM's future sales: the hybrid Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, the Buick Lacrosse sedan and three new crossover vehicles (the Cadillac SRX, Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain) that are part car and part SUV, all of which will reach dealers soon. (See pictures of American muscle cars...
...strategy of focusing on its profitable lines working? Neither GM nor Chrysler is profitable yet. Going forward, however, both companies' recovery plans call for concentrating on vehicles that promise an adequate return. They will continue to focus on their profitable lines, such as Chrysler's minivans and GM's pickup trucks. But both GM and Chrysler will be adding new, small cars to their lines by 2011, as they say they will make a profit on those vehicles with rising gasoline prices...
...maker of the Prius? Sales of the new 2010 Prius got off to a strong start in June, according to Toyota, as consumers bought more than 13,000 units. But it's the sales of Toyota's other vehicles, such as its full-size pickup truck, the Tundra, and its hip little Scion that have borne the brunt of Toyota's sales slump. The company hopes to stem the decline by beefing up sales of its small utility vehicle, the RAV4, its Sienna minivan and the Camry sedan. Toyota executives have also raised incentives and are trusting that rising...
...running into the homes of kindly residents. Five, 10, 15 minutes passed, and the automatic rifles kept going. Finally the smoke cleared to reveal the carnage: parts of the skull and brains of a teenage boy lay on the concrete; a bleeding man was being dragged unconscious into a pickup truck; a third victim hobbled with medics into an ambulance, a bullet stuck...
...consumer demand for Japanese products began to strengthen, or if the government introduced additional stimulus spending. Due to budget constraints, says Shirakawa, the latter is unlikely. Japan currently spends 4% of GDP, an unusually high ratio for a developed country, to service its burgeoning debt. But a pickup in consumption is possible, he says. The savings rate in the U.S. has increased in the past few months, and consumers may be feeling more confident that they can now spend a little more. That could provide some relief to Japan's battered export sector; Japanese exports in April were down...