Word: minivan
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...enjoy saving Mother Earth if I'm worrying about getting squashed like a bug." Customers like Blalock won't have long to wait for heftier hybrids. In 2003, Ford will produce a hybrid version of its Escape sport utility, expected to get 40 m.p.g. By then, Toyota's hybrid minivan, the Estima, will probably have reached the U.S. market, along with a hybrid Honda Civic. Proving that hybrids are not necessarily environmentally virtuous, DaimlerChrysler has announced a hybrid version of its monster Durango truck that would get only 18 m.p.g.--a hybrid muscle...
Chrysler's woes are extensive. After owning the minivan market and a good chunk of the ever popular sport-utility business for a decade, the automaker has watched its market share get sucked away in the past year by competition. Instead of offering fresh new product, Chrysler rolled out an "all new" minivan that looks a lot like the old one, with expensive frills like power doors. Overproduction has forced the company to offer incentives of up to $4,000, tempting a loss on every sale. Chrysler even bungled its hottest product. There wasn't enough production capacity to meet...
...there, we flew to Las Vegas and picked up a minivan for the 300-mile drive to Page, Ariz. Our girls--one nine and twins just shy of eight--took in the desolate landscape, with its red rock spires and stunning mesas, and fired off questions: "Are there dinosaur eggs buried here? Where are the Indians? Did you run over any rattlesnakes?" Gradually, the scenery turned flatter, less interesting and more relentless in its dull brown hues. Five hours passed, and then, without warning, a striking new color showed up on the horizon. An oasis of emerald blue-green water...
...Nashes' decision has prompted inevitable questions about the ethical implications of parents' choosing their offspring's features as if they were options on a minivan. But even as the issue is debated, the practice is catching on. Already, 300 IVF babies in the U.S. have been born after the same genetic-screening procedure the Nashes used, though in those cases the goal was simply to ensure that the embryos were not carrying serious genetic defects...
...boyhood friends. The result is, as he puts it, "a memoir in the shape of a map." It's part geography, part story--a concept he created two years ago when he drew a map for his family at Christmas. That one was a tribute to his stepmother's minivan. The gift was a big hit, and he's been mapping ever since...