Word: sedans
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...optimistic? Maybe so, given India's stop-and-start efforts to open up its once-socialist economy, where for decades domestic manufacturers were so sheltered from competition by tariffs and a restrictive licensing regime that one of the best-selling cars was the Ambassador, a rattletrap sedan first manufactured by Hindustan Motors in 1957 and still sold today. Due to years of underinvestment, much of India's manufacturing base is just as outmoded as the Ambassador, and many of the problems that have kept investors at bay red tape, corruption, outmoded transport links and unreliable electrical power remain...
...Marines--"turkey peeking," as the troops call it--a sign that they are preparing to attack."We come out here every day, and we get shot at," Jones tells an Iraqi woman who speaks American-accented English. "Where are the bad guys?" She falls silent. Outside, a blue sedan peels away. "Watch that car," a Marine yells, sensing a possible ambush...
...exhausting, this ritual self-interrogation. And then, after all the familiar articles have been written, the cycle starts up again, turning over like the big V-8 in that wasteful sedan we never sold. Gas prices start sliding down again and people go back to driving as they've always driven while listening to the same music on their stereos and tuning out the same discouraging news about global warming, Middle East politics and bumper-to-bumper traffic on the interstates. Crank the Pearl...
Perhaps that's why, this time, I won't be disappointed if gas prices stay uncomfortably high. Then I might finally be able to adapt to them. I might relinquish, at last, my selfish fantasy of buying a 300-h.p. sports sedan that uses only premium. I might break myself of the obsessive road-trip habit that caused me to put over 90,000 miles on a new SUV in just the past two years. I might trade in the SUV for a mountain bike and lower my blood pressure as a wholesome side effect...
...full of middle-aged and badly dressed men." Lutz vows that design will no longer take a backseat to sales and marketing. A forthcoming Cadillac will be a model dreamed up by a design team and pitched to senior execs instead of the other way around. A 2007 Saturn sedan, the Aura, with an exterior designed in Germany, has already won acclaim for stylish looks...