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...hero to replace the socialist icons of a bygone era, the nation's athletes are turning their sporting prowess into a marketable asset. Tian and Guo are among the first to make this headlong leap. Tian, the reigning Olympic champion in platform diving, zips around in a Mitsubishi Pajero suv and has a closet full of Versace and Armani. His rock-star mane and six-pack abs have helped cast him as a pitchman for Amway and Bausch & Lomb. Guo, with her porcelain-doll features and two silver medals from the Sydney Olympics, is an equally alluring marketing phenomenon...
...luck. A fleet of fuel-efficient hybrid and clean-diesel models is arriving at dealerships over the next few months--and they aren't your typical tin-box green machines. Automakers are delivering what seemed unthinkable just a few years ago--midsize cars and SUVs with the horsepower, performance and size that Americans expect, plus improved fuel economy. Hybrid cars are propelled by a combination of a gas engine and an electric motor--a complicated technology that still draws blank stares, even though hybrids have been on the market for nearly five years. The latest versions, however, might be summed...
...four-cylinder 2.8-liter engine that the company claims will perform like a V6, with a 25% improvement in fuel economy (it will be sold in only 45 states because of antismog restrictions on diesel passenger vehicles). Lexus plans to deliver a hybrid version of its luxury RX330 SUV, the 400h, this fall. And Honda says by year's end it will sell a hybrid edition of its V6 Accord that will outperform the standard version in fuel economy and pickup. "We want to sell it on the basis of advanced technology and performance," says Honda spokesman Andy Boyd. That...
...latest sales trends don't augur well for such vehicles. Sales of some full-size SUVs, such as the Ford Excursion and Expedition and Lincoln Navigator, fell during the first four months of the year, with a sharp drop in April, while sales of GM's mighty Hummer H2 tanked 25%. Smaller SUVs and crossover models are gaining momentum. "The mix is shifting down, and that's something we haven't seen in quite a while," Girsky says. GM plans to temporarily halt assembly lines at an SUV plant near Oklahoma City, Okla., this week--one of the few times...
...Increase in the number of SUV deaths in the same period, up from...