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...clip annually. "The baby boomers are fueling this long-term trend," explains Craig Jackson, president of Barrett-Jackson. "They want to own the cars of their youth." Coveted wheels include '50s sports cars like the Corvette and muscle cars of the late '60s and early '70s like the Pontiac...
...Bogart movies, art students in New York City and bartenders in Dearborn, Mich., are wearing the same hat. This time around, it's the mesh baseball cap, and it's usually worn high on the head, for a hardy agrarian look, or sideways, for a dash of urban knowingness. Pontiac, John Deere and their industrial brethren had been planting logos on the caps for years when in the late '90s aspiring rock musicians in such hip neighborhoods as the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, N.Y., started wearing them as a tribute to Rust and Farm Belt masculinity. Now fashion designers like...
...compared with those of BMW, Lexus and Mercedes-Benz, which sizzled with hot offerings. PAG's sales are up so far this year, but its British vehicles still lag in quality: in the most recent "initial quality" survey by J.D. Power and Associates, Jaguar ranked 19th, behind Chevrolet and Pontiac; and Land Rover, at 32nd, stood behind such econo-box makers as Dodge and Hyundai. Fields will have to work his magic mostly by boosting efficiency and trimming costs through further sharing of parts and platforms across the brands--without jeopardizing each one's purebred appeal...
Today's fleet is both more comfortable and safer than the generation of '70s-era Pontiac GTOs. Higher-tensile steels enable manufacturers to make frames that vibrate less and are stiffer and lighter (the bane of convertibles past was lumbering weight and rattle). "Airflow management" is now a priority--with windshields shaped to reduce wind so you can actually hear that nine-speaker stereo. And upscale roadsters like the Mercedes SL500 feature pop-up roll bars that can deploy in a third of a second. (Such bars, however, won't necessarily save you in a rollover. The National Highway Traffic...
There's no better example of the GM riddle than the Pontiac Aztek, the 2001 sport-utility vehicle that was recently awarded top honors by J.D. Power & Associates for customer satisfaction among light SUVs. The trouble is, not many customers can stop laughing long enough even to look inside an Aztek, whose boxy, butt-ugly design has inspired more jokes than any vehicle since the 1957 Ford Edsel. It's kind of what Lutz had in mind a year ago when he described GM's products, among others, as resembling "angry kitchen appliances...