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Kobayashi can pick up on the latest sounds and steps, but learning attitude is a little trickier. Keichiro Suzuki is already a master. Says the truck driver, 20, who sports a snowy pair of Air Jordans: "I like black people and their music because they're cool." When Suzuki dances, he can also toss his dreadlocks, a style in which rap-blitzed kids can invest seven hours and from $324 to $1,215 at a hair salon. So kakko-ii, or cool, is it to be black that a lively business is booming in tanning salons with names like...
Detroit is hardly alone in its struggle. The coming shake-out could well include such Japanese weak sisters as Suzuki, Subaru, Isuzu and Daihatsu, which lack deep pockets and far-flung distribution networks. "The smaller Japanese makers are doing absolutely atrociously," says Ron de Vogel, sales manager for the San Francisco Auto Center, a hypermarket that offers 11 American, Japanese and European makes under one roof. Concurs analyst Keller: "We're going to have to stop talking about Japan Inc. and start talking about individual Japanese companies. Some are going to shrink and maybe give...
Accused are Jonah Tajeu Magiroi, 28, and Peter Metui Kipeen, 26, who police now believe took Julie Ward into their rangers' camp after her Suzuki four- wheel-drive vehicle broke down in the park. Investigators think that radio trouble kept the men from calling for assistance and that she stayed with them for about a week on friendly terms before an altercation led to her murder. John Ward is expected to be a witness at the trial...
...sure, automaking has become such a globalized business that the nationality of cars is increasingly blurred. GM owns 38% of Japan's Isuzu, 50% of South Korea's Daewoo Motors, 50% of Sweden's Saab-Scania and 5% of Japan's Suzuki, and shares some manufacturing operations with both Toyota and Suzuki. Those alliances give GM global reach, but the automaker was in danger of evolving into little more than a holding company if it did not relearn how to manufacture competitive cars in its own plants...
Saturn may also lure customers away from other GM products, especially its highly successful Geo line, which is made with partners Suzuki and Toyota. "They're not going to steal market share from the Japanese," says Paul Lienert, editor of Automotive Industries' Insider, a trade newsletter. "It's more likely that they'll cannibalize other GM products, so for the company it will be a net wash in market share...