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...guzzlers, rejoice! Ultimate Hummers revels in the pleasures of cars that make tree huggers cringe. Read about "anti-SUV terrorists" and the lifestyle they threaten. A recent cover line: "Diesel Fuel: Here to Save...
...COOLEST TECHNOLOGIES The diesel-fueled hybrid Opel Astra, which gets 60 m.p.g; Ford's Mercury Meta One, a prototype of a hybrid-powered SUV; and BMW's H2R racer, fueled by liquid hydrogen. GM also will reveal the hybrid system it plans for full-size pickups and SUVs...
...joint-venture partner, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., many suspect that GM's comrades passed along trade secrets. Regardless, Chery plans to build on its success at home to become the first Chinese automaker to crack the American market. It revealed plans to offer five models last week, including an SUV, at costs below anything riveted together by Detroit's Big Three. It has teamed with a legendary partner--Malcolm Bricklin, who brought the Subaru to America in the 1960s. Bricklin describes Chery as "ambitious like crazy," and his New York--based firm, Visionary Vehicles, plans to import...
...which went on the market in December, packs 255 h.p.--15 h.p. more than the conventional V6--and comes with luxuries like a leather-trimmed interior, heated front seats, power windows--and even an electronic noise-dampening system. Not to be outdriven, Lexus plans to roll out a hybrid SUV in April, the RX 400h, generating 270 h.p. and up to 27.6 m.p.g. in city-highway driving. It's off to a fast start, with 11,000 vehicles already presold...
...that are trying to ease profit pressure at home through global acquisitions. Guangdong-based TCL last year bought the television arm (including the RCA brand) of French electronics giant Thomson. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. is in talks to acquire the very English MG Rover and has already bought Korean SUV maker Ssangyong. A consortium of Chinese companies bid on the Canadian mining firm Noranda. Says Arthur Kroeber, managing editor of the China Economic Quarterly, of the dealmaking: "It's not a silly gamble, but it is high risk...