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Auto sales couldn't be much slower, and the near future isn't looking that much better, says Bruce Rapp, who sells GM cars, Subarus and Jaguars in Syracuse, N.Y. "There's incredible change going on in our industry, and it hasn't shaken out yet," he adds...
...than $10,000 and a sports car, the Beauty Leopard, which sells for $15,125 in China. Other Chinese manufacturers, with varying levels of sophistication, are developing export models too, notably Chery, which is being promoted by Malcolm Bricklin, a New York City entrepreneur who made his fortune importing Subarus and his name importing the ill-fated Yugo. "What you're seeing is the first stage," says Mike Hanley, global director of Ernst & Young's automotive practice. "Everybody recognizes that Chinese cars will end up in North America. It's a matter of time...
Some stereotypes are true. Republicans drive Jaguars; Democrats drive Subarus. But why stop there? In the age of the overpriced, overmanaged campaign, the data go beyond red-stateblue-state superficiality into far more whimsical superficialities. For instance, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to bowl, according to a survey of 200,000 Americans by Scarborough Research, a consumer-research firm whose data were used by the Bush campaign. Republicans are, in fact, more likely to do almost everything, from jogging to gardening. Democrats are more likely to watch...
...Parker, many Westerners feel under assault by settlers, vacationers and developers. If President Clinton arrives for his planned summer vacation this month in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, there will no doubt be renewed grumblings about traffic and overcrowding as the First Entourage sweeps through. About a half-decade ago, Subarus full of Easterners and Range Rovers stuffed with Californians started trekking to the Rocky Mountain states. The refugees were tired of big-city life, traffic jams, crime and shopping malls, so they moved to a new mecca, stretching from Montana to New Mexico, where the air was clean and the water...
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