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...Neil Young Prairie Wind; $18.98 These spare, mostly acoustic songs about death, loss and life's rearview mirror make for a draining listen. But they're not a drag because Young knows exactly how an album this thematically grim-he wrote and recorded it between being diagnosed with and treated for a brain aneurysm-needs to sound. At his most frightened (Falling Off the Face of the Earth), there's an easy melody and notes of assurance from the impeccably played instruments. And when he contemplates all his choices (The Painter) and wonders if he has got lost, the voices...
...five years, Hyundai has been the world's fastest-growing major automaker since 1999, according to Lehman Bros. Hyundai is "putting pressure on everybody," says Rob Hinchliffe, an auto analyst at UBS. Even Toyota vice chairman Fujio Cho last year acknowledged the blur that is getting bigger in his rearview mirror: "Hyundai has quality and prices that have caught customers' attention, not to mention ours...
...still only the world's seventh largest carmaker, with 3.3 million vehicles sold globally, and that includes sales by its Kia subsidiary. But Chung has grand ambitions. "We will make ourselves an invincible competitor," he says. Hyundai's larger rivals should mark those words whenever they check their rearview mirror for overtaking traffic. --With reporting by Daren Fonda/New York and Frank Sikora/Montgomery
Warning, Detroit: The Asian car companies in your rearview mirror may be closer than they appear. Whereas GM, Ford and DaimlerChrysler posted a record-low monthly U.S. market share of 56.3% in April, Japan's Big Three (Toyota, Honda and Nissan) led Asia's automakers to a record 37.5% share, according to market-research firm Autodata Corp. "The Japanese are moving into new segments [like hybrids and small SUVs], while the Americans are struggling to update their aging product lines," says Nikko Citigroup analyst Andrew Phillips. At the head of the pack: Nissan, with a 32% gain in sales compared...
...still only the world's seventh largest carmaker, with 3.3 million vehicles sold globally?and that includes sales by its Kia subsidiary. But Chung has grand ambitions. "We will make ourselves an invincible competitor," he says. Hyundai's larger rivals should mark those words whenever they check their rearview mirrors for overtaking traffic...