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...scandal broke in March, when executives at Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus, until last year a Mitsubishi Motors division, admitted after discussions with government regulators that a defect in wheel hubs on its heavy trucks could result in wheels suddenly coming off the vehicles. (Mitsubishi Fuso had previously maintained the problem was due to poor maintenance.) Later, the truck unit acknowledged it had hidden a problem with fractured clutch housings that could cause a transmission part to fall off vehicles. According to regulators, these two flaws are suspected to have caused or contributed to 73 accidents and two fatalities, including...
Every week for the past 10 years, one contestant on the Japanese TV game show Tokyo Friend Park 2 got a chance to win the grand prize?a Pajero sport utility vehicle made by Mitsubishi Motors?by tossing darts at a spinning wheel while audience members clapped and cheered an encouraging "Pa-je-ro! Pa-je-ro!" But when the taped program aired on June 17, the customary end-of-show ritual had undergone an important change. Instead of the "Pajero!" chant, producers had dubbed in a different cheer: "Ku-ru-ma! Ku-ru-ma!"?meaning simply "Car! Car!" Starting...
...wife promptly left town for a conference, leaving me, a semiretired journalist, in charge of this teen version of The Cannonball Run. The most likely problem, I thought, would be car trouble. Gabby drives a 1994 Volvo that she has personalized with dents, scratches, parking tickets, missing wheel covers and a trunk that won't open. But the indestructible Swedish oldsters don't flinch at being driven over curbs or smacking poles in parking lots...
...Socialist Alternative, with a more aggressive approach to activism, filled their shoes, taking positions that even PSLM at their most radical might have considered impractical. With a new driver at the wheel this year, labor activism at Harvard took on an entirely unfamiliar face...
Last December, I was trying to keep my friend awake at the wheel while we drove home through a blizzard after a hockey road trip. Rewind a bit, and the previous summer I was getting hit on by skeezy sportswriters at the Buffalo Bills’ training camp. Go even further back in time, and I was sitting quite comfortably in the stands at the Murr Center watching our squash teams amid players’ family and friends...