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...even the best value on wheels doesn't sell in Japan without a lot of legwork. Toyota, the top domestic automaker, fields about 50,000 door-to-door car salesmen outside of its 5,574 showrooms. In the face of such competition, the Big Three now have plans to do some marketing of their own. Ford is the most ambitious, aiming to capture 5% of the Japanese market by the end of the decade by importing 100,000 cars and manufacturing 100,000 more in Mazda's factories in Japan. (Ford is Mazda's main shareholder, with a 24.5% stake...
...Aries. The Cirrus and its eminently drivable competitors may go a long way toward winning back that lost generation of drivers. Detroit has certainly set ambitious goals for them. Although the new compacts like Contour and Cirrus are in the same size bracket as the Honda Civic and the Toyota Corolla, for example, they are squarely aimed at taking away customers from the larger (and more expensive) mid-size Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys. The strategy is to squeeze the popular mid-size Hondas and Toyotas between Detroit's hot compacts and its larger models, like Ford's Taurus...
...cause for dread. The writer whose image is framed by a noose on hundreds of vindictive placards went into hiding two months ago when her challenge of Scripture prompted legal charges and Muslim fatwas, or religious decrees, calling for her death. Last week, as she emerged from a Toyota sedan into Dhaka's High Court building, a black head scarf and tinted glasses disguised her features. She appeared grim and jittery through a 45-minute hearing that ended with her release on $250 bail. Then she fled home to relatives she had not seen since June 4. By the consensus...
...Japan as the world's biggest auto maker this year, according to a Japanese financial newspaper. The last time the U.S. carried this mantle was back in 1980. But don't expect any whooping victory celebrations: Many cars made here are actually owned by Japanese companies like Honda and Toyota. They've built plants in the U.S. because it's cheaper than shipping the cars from Japan...
...heard gunfire, and then Escobar was on the ground, groaning and clutching his chest," said Jorge Arango, a witness. Escobar had been shot 12 times. One of the assailants reportedly said, "Thanks for the auto-goal, you son of a bitch." The killers then took off in a Toyota pickup truck. Escobar was pronounced dead 45 minutes later...