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...auto engineer Alec Issigonis sketched a rough design on a restaurant tablecloth of a car destined to become a British motoring icon. That doodle was the prototype for the Mini, the 3m-long, 1.2m-wide engineering feat that became - along with the Volkswagen Beetle and Citröen's 2CV - one of those small cars that inspire both devotion and ridicule. After its 1959 launch, the Mini went on to sell more than 5 million cars over the next four decades, until it became clear the car could not meet stiffened European safety regulations...
...Garel Rhys, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at the Cardiff Business School, is a little more positive, saying that the Mini's low-volume production is offset by BMW's positioning of it in the upper end of the mini market, against the likes of the Volkswagen Polo and the Peugeot 206, where margins are higher, around 5% to 6%, compared to about 3% in the Mini's previous sales bracket. Still, Rhys notes, "small cars mean small profits...
...hair and knit shawl, the GP is solidly middle-class and had been thinking about retirement. But she practiced Falun Gong and protested in Tiananmen Square. Upon being arrested, police escorted her by bus back to her hometown; there, colleagues were waiting at the station with the hospital's Volkswagen. She was handed over to her friends, and the car sped off?away from her home. "Where are we going?" she asked. The answer came when they pulled up to the gates of a mental institution and her co-workers advised her to submit to therapy. She had no record...
...stolen Volkswagen truck roared along the chaotic main street of Nablus. As Kamel Salameh wove the VW through the morning rush-hour traffic, he slammed into nine-year-old Islam Atallah. She spun off the hood like a doll, dead. With screaming tires, Salameh turned his truck and sped off. He headed for Balata refugee camp at the edge of Nablus. The patrolmen chasing him were nervous. The camp is a no-go area for Yasser Arafat's police. Salameh swerved into Balata's narrow streets and disappeared. Soon after, the police found the truck abandoned, but Salameh had melted...
...sloppy long hair and regulation Oxford and those very, very piercing eyes? Remember his schedule, how you nervously ambled into the front office and flipped through the binder and memorized it so you could secretly coordinate that vital hall time? Remember wondering where he drove in that beat-up Volkswagen after soccer practice? Before he went home to West Springfield, zip code 22310? Technology changes, but not people. I didn't have a cell phone then; neither did Kevin; neither did anyone. But what...