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...cost cutting and boosted by a weak yen, which makes Mazda's vehicles cheaper abroad. The key to long-term growth is hot new models, but under Fields' regime, Mazda delayed new rollouts, concentrating instead on bolstering existing brands with better marketing and dealer support. "We were chasing Toyota and ended up with cars that didn't have personality," Fields says. In the coming months, Mazda will phase out two models and introduce three new ones, and how those vehicles fare will determine his longer-term legacy...
...Barreling down a narrow street in Beijing in a silver 2002 Toyota Landcruiser, Jiang has his CD player blaring The Red Detachment of Women, a cacophonous propaganda ballet from the 1960s. With his assistant at the wheel, Jiang turns around to explain gleefully his fondness for the revolutionary score. Born in 1963 in China's central Hebei province, Jiang was the son of a senior captain in the People's Liberation Army. The family moved house a lot. Jiang affectionately recalls the rustic province of Guizhou where cured hams hung inside neighbors' homes and unattended warehouses of machine parts became...
KARACHI In the city where Daniel Pearl was murdered in February, a red Toyota Corolla with a bomb on the backseat pulled up beside a Pakistani bus on May 8 and exploded, killing 14. Authorities suspect the attack was the work of al-Qaeda. It was the third time in four months that foreigners in Pakistan had been murdered...
...final lesson is that tracking opening weekends has become a national pastime. Regular people don't track what Windows 2000 pulled in on its first day of sales or how many Toyota Camrys were driven off the lot that first week. But movies, as our proudest and most exciting cultural export, are monitored by Americans the way they used to watch the NASDAQ. There's a kind of pride that we can blow $115 million in one weekend on a comic-book movie; Spider-Man was our May Day. And if $115 million of fun was going...
...lifted by a 24 percent gain in sales of pickups, SUVs and minivans and suddenly the king of Detroit again, estimated that the industry's total U.S. sales would be up about 2.5 percent for the month. (Toyota, Honda and Volkswagen also posted inched-up U.S. sales numbers Wednesday.) That puts the industry on an annual U.S. sales pace of some 18 million vehicles, far stronger than originally estimated and enough - if they can keep it up - for carmakers to log one of the best U.S. sales years in history...