Word: sedans
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...question, Toyota's rise is the envy of the auto business. Since 1999, Toyota's U.S. market share has grown from 10.6% to 14.7%. The company makes America's best-selling sedan, the Camry. Its fuel-sipping hybrids, like the Prius, are the hottest cars on the market, commanding premiums and long waiting lists. The folks who snickered when Toyota launched a youth brand, Scion, by importing funky compacts from Japan like the xB, are racing to develop their own hipster cars. Toyota is doing a bang-up job financially, forecast to post profits of $10.8 billion...
...hill from St. Peter's. With the sun warm on my face, I thought I might even manage to clear my mind for a moment of all things Vatican. Fat chance. Approaching from my left, I heard the discrete siren of a one-car police escort, with a dark sedan right behind. As the cars zipped around the curve and under an arch, I could see clearly that the escorted passenger was in fact Camillo Cardinal Ruini. This was not a dream. The powerful Italian Cardinal appeared to be alone, gazing out the car window in my direction. Having just...
...palpable that I could feel it on my skin. I also saw he was nervous, and I found that endearing. He shouted good-bye to my family (they seemed subdued, as in the wake of a tornado), ushered me quickly out the door and helped me into a hired sedan with a driver he introduced by name (which impressed...
...Sudan in 1962 and 1970; some even blamed the U.S. for Sudanese cancer cases. The revelation was contained in a transcript of a U.S. House of Representatives' hearing. But U.S. officials explained that there was an error in the document: the tests it referred to actually took place in "Sedan", the code name for a test site in Nevada...
...marketer to do if a much awaited product isn't quite ready to be shown off? Send customers to a "virtual showroom" instead, via their cell phones. That's what BMW did last month at the auto shows in Los Angeles and Detroit. With its redesigned 3-series sedan not yet ready for prime time (the vehicle is scheduled to hit U.S. showrooms in early summer), the German automaker handed out cards imprinted with a phone number. Prospective customers could then get a sneak peek at the new vehicle on their Web-enabled cell phones, complete with video clips. Says...