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With a muscular retro appearance, the Camaro plays on the baby-boomer generation's insatiable appetite for nostalgia. However, GM also has bets on several other new models, which are planted in key market segments critical to GM's future sales: the hybrid Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, the Buick Lacrosse sedan and three new crossover vehicles (the Cadillac SRX, Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain) that are part car and part SUV, all of which will reach dealers soon. (See pictures of American muscle cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can GM's New Models Woo Back Buyers? | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...hybrid Silverado, which gets better than 20 m.p.g., is the first genuine hybrid in the critical pickup-truck segment, which represents 15% of the total U.S. market. It's promising but a bit undernourished - the launch of this new hybrid truck has been undermined by cuts in production and advertising as GM has struggled to conserve cash. GM CEO Fritz Henderson says company-wide production should level out during the second half of 2009, and Peper asserts that advertising across models will increase over the next six months. If the hybrid Silverado is successful, it could be a very tangible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can GM's New Models Woo Back Buyers? | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...Food, Direct Though I do not eat much beef, I love Kate Pickert's article about cow-pooling [June 15]. I grew up on a farm in Arkansas where my sister and I stood on the fence and waved goodbye as the cows were loaded onto the truck to be taken to market, and where my dad once made me and my friends get up at 6 a.m. after a sleepover and dig potatoes. My kids have been growing up in the suburbs, not knowing where food comes from. Now we are growing vegetables in the backyard, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...Urumqi was lumbering towards normalcy. Markets and grocery stores reopened, allowing residents to catch up on days of missed shopping. Traffic resumed through most of the city, though it was still blocked on occasion by slow-moving patrols of security vehicles. Convoys of armored personnel carriers and trucks loaded with rifle-bearing members of the People's Armed Police have driven throughout the city over the past three days, usually accompanied by a sound truck broadcasting speeches from local party leaders. (See pictures of the unrest in Urumqi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiet Returns to Urumqi, but Tensions Remain | 7/10/2009 | See Source »

...into the homes of kindly residents. Five, 10, 15 minutes passed, and the automatic rifles kept going. Finally the smoke cleared to reveal the carnage: parts of the skull and brains of a teenage boy lay on the concrete; a bleeding man was being dragged unconscious into a pickup truck; a third victim hobbled with medics into an ambulance, a bullet stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police Open Fire on Protesters in Honduras | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

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