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...haven't stumbled upon one of those places in the minivan, children strapped in behind you in those church pews--or maybe in a roadster, top down, the wind laughing through the sparse seedlings of your new plug-a-rug--and wondered how a nowhere burg like Dalton, Ga., comes to carpet the planet. Or how a look-fast town, a highway blur, becomes the Garlic Capital (Gilroy, Calif.) or the Storm-Watching Capital (Bandon, Ore.) of the universe (or so they claim...
...part-time recruiters by offering bonuses and sometimes other perks to those who bring in hirable candidates. At SRA International, a Virginia computer-software firm, any employee who finds a new worker gets $1,000, plus a chance in a company lottery. Prizes include the choice of a BMW Roadster, a Mercury Mountaineer or a Volvo sedan and an all-expenses-paid cruise for a family of four...
Despite the obstacles, GM officials claim to be satisfied with their racy roadster's first year. Even gasoline-powered sports cars have a narrow market, they point out, and the EV1 is only the first in a line of GM electrics that will presumably include more practical four-seaters. GM also notes that the VCR took 34 years from introduction to significant market penetration; the microwave oven, 30 years; the PC, 15 years...
What fascinates this global audience is not so much the nature of the vehicle; at just 1 ft. tall and 2 ft. long, the boxy, six-wheeled, 22-lb. car is nobody's idea of a roadster. But while Cooper will be at the controls at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the car will be 119 million miles away, touring the arid Ares Vallis floodplain on Mars...
There was a glaring omission in your article on roadsters: the Miata. Introduced in 1989, it led the resurgence of the roadster. The Japanese, with the aid of a brilliant group of American designers, gave us back a true European-style sports car, the Miata, with one important extra: dependability. JEFF JURY, Founder Delaware Valley Miata Club Cherry Hill, New Jersey...