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...trucks - big ones. And buses. And diesel engines. Industrial customers want manufacturers to deliver entire, diverse fleets. So Pischetsrieder has been talking to shareholders of Munich truckmaker MAN and Sweden's Scania, in which VW already has a stake, about creating Europe's third-largest truckmaker (behind DaimlerChrysler and Volvo). "There are question marks over the strategic sense of a move into heavy trucks on the part of VW," says Commerzbank analyst Robert Ashton, adding that Pischetsrieder may actually be trying to sell off VW's own minuscule truck operation, which made just 19,000 vehicles last year, compared...
...biggest Volvo ever made for consumers and probably the most anticipated: the automaker's first true SUV, the model XC90. Just weeks on the market, its sales are red hot. But how does it drive? We took it for a spin. Verdict: the XC90 has brawn and backbone, blending the solid chassis of a Swedish sedan with the commanding stance of an SUV. The driver has a high, clear view of the road, and the controls are easy to read and reach. Volvo's designers added such nifty touches as a children's booster seat in the middle...
When people describe Annika Sorenstam, they say she's consistent, efficient, mechanical, driven. Makes you wonder: Are they talking about the world's No. 1 female golfer or a Volvo? And when you meet her, you also wonder whether this nice grinning woman in the lime-green golf shirt really could be a sporting machine...
...called socially responsible investing funds, which buy only the sort of stocks that the Volvo-driving, soy-cappuccino-sipping liberal elite approves of, are everywhere these days. According to Lipper, the mutual-fund-tracking service, 199 SRI funds today manage $21.6 billion, up from 88 funds with $12.9 billion in 1999. The very names of the stocks these funds own--Horizon Organic, Nature's Sunshine, Peoples Energy and Progressive Corp.--would give a Berkeley sociology professor the warm fuzzies...
FORD 0% for 60 months, or a $3,000 rebate, on many Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models. Exceptions: Jaguar, Land Rover, Volvo. Expires...