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Carlos Ghosn has every reason to have that bounce in his step at the annual Detroit Auto Show this week. The Brazilian president of Japan's Nissan Motor Co., now controlled by France's Renault, has been itching to unveil the dazzling new iteration of a sports car that once defined an affordable testosterone boost. Remember the 240Z, the long-nosed rocket that every boy just had to drive after it came out in 1970, later known as the fastest-selling sports car of its time? Monday, to cacophonous music and a panoply of strobe lights in the Motor City...
Indeed. Accountability is the watchword at a company that two years ago nearly failed for lack of it. And while this week's auto-show debut may offer an uplifting break in an otherwise grindingly difficult quest, Ghosn doesn't have time to stop and savor success. "If you're coming from hell," he says, "then purgatory doesn't look too bad." If the Z takes off, then at least maybe Ghosn can start thinking about heaven...
Remarkably, all the bad headlines have yet to do real damage to Explorer sales. Ford sold a record 445,157 Explorers last year, up 3.8% from 1999. And while the sagging economy and dim outlook for auto sales will force the company to trim production of many vehicles, the Explorer isn't one of them...
...tech offers instruction in eight trades, from carpentry to graphic arts to auto mechanics. This fall has been a particularly rocky time for vo-tech...
Most students taking auto mechanics, for instance, want to learn how to fix their own cars, not train to be auto mechanics, Lividoti says...