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...customers are paying several thousand dollars more than the sticker price for a hybrid now. "If we could get all we could sell, it would be our best-selling model," says Steve Curtis, a sales manager at Landers Toyota in Little Rock, Ark. A typical scene at a dealership: folks come in, see the Prius, notice its EPA fuel-economy rating, take it for a spin and get hooked. But in reality, drivers rarely achieve the advertised 55 m.p.g. in combined city-highway driving; 43 m.p.g. is more like it. (The discrepancy results from EPA testing methods.) So far, that...
...MTV’s Room Raiders. We challenged Wesley H. Kauble ’06 to choose a dream date out of a pool of eager sweethearts based solely on their interpretations of standard-issue university housing. Kauble, a lightweight rower and Undergraduate Council dynamo, purchased a car dealership with his winnings on NBC’s Weakest Link in his junior year of high school. But can a wide array of interests and experiences help him correctly decipher his true love based on her underwear drawer...
...this fiscal year, and Nissan projects net income to hit a record $4.2 billion. Renault's finances are considered solid, and Ghosn wants to expand logistics and parts-sharing deals between the automakers in Europe, South America and possibly China. Just don't expect LeCars at your Nissan dealership soon. --By Daren Fonda
...door lock broke. Then a spring popped out of a seat. By the time she had put 50,000 miles on her Jetta, it already felt sluggish, says Jones, 28. And what especially disturbed her were the grim faces of fellow VW owners whom she encountered at her dealership. "The majority of them weren't there for basic service" of their cars, she says, "but because of some defect...
...came after nearly two decades of slack sales that led it to consider pulling out of North America. What turbocharged sales was the New Beetle, launched in 1998; baby boomers with fond (if pot-hazed) memories of Microbuses and Beetles gravitated to the car, or at least to the dealership, where they saw Jettas and Passats that appealed to their more practical side. Teenage boys and young men turned the Golf gti into a hit on the "tuner" scene. And the New Beetle and Jetta found an adoring audience in young college-educated women. From selling just 49,000 cars...