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...models. The company hopes to entice young buyers with zippy entries like the Chevy Cobalt. Replacing the aging but best-selling Cavalier, the compact Cobalt offers extras--heated leather seats, an MP3 player and a power sunroof--that should help it compete with the more upscale Honda Civic and Volkswagen Jetta. But the upgrades aren't just aesthetic: relatively large 15-in. tires come with the coupe and the sedan, and a peppier, 170-h.p. engine will be standard on the coupe...
...commuter deduction - from 40? per km to 30? - has big carmakers seething. "It's definitely not positive for the car industry," said Thomas Mickeleit, spokesman for Volkswagen. On the plus side, Harald Grunert, who owns three restaurants, said he thinks the Chancellor's plan to cut long-term jobless benefits - and force the unemployed to take any offered job - will make it easier for him to find staff. Now comes the hard part: convincing Germans worried about losing their jobs to open their wallets. Through The 3-G Looking Glass The emergence of third-generation (3-G) mobile-phone services...
...Pitch to the Rich" [TIME Global Business, December], Volkswagen asserts that many of the problems its cars have are minor and that the cars perform solidly over the long haul. I purchased a 1999 VW Passat GLS V6 earlier this year. It had about 39,000 miles on it. At the time of purchase, I had the car thoroughly inspected. They found no problems. I have not yet reached 50,000 miles and have already had to replace the guts of a back door due to its locking up; the oil cooler due to oil leaking; the sway-bar linkage...
...officials aren't always able to say where the detainees are, frustrating Iraqis desperately looking for friends or family members who have disappeared. The last time Raed Karim al-Ani saw his brother Mohammed, 27, was in mid-May, when the taxi driver climbed into his battered 1983 Volkswagen and chugged out the driveway of his parents' house. In early July two men came to the house with Mohammed's ID card and car, and said they had seen U.S. soldiers pin him to the ground at a checkpoint, then haul him away...
...picks up a Bugatti's momentum. You want her more at a Volkswagen's steady trot." Aniruddha Bahal, Indian author, from a segment in his novel Bunker 13, which was given the London-based Literary Review's annual "Bad Sex in Fiction" award