Word: sedans
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...sometimes, the luckiest. At an intersection of Bangkok's busy Pattanakarn Road in June, the driver of a gray Hilux pickup lost patience waiting for an interminable red light and attempted a quick U-turn into oncoming traffic. He was rammed by a Toyota sedan; the impact spun one vehicle into six motorcycles whose riders were waiting at the light, while the other was propelled into two other motorcyclists turning into Pattanakarn Road. Although nine people were injured, no one died. Others have not been so fortunate. "This road is the worst," says Sommai Nutang, a 46-year-old truck...
...said that a white four-door sedan came up behind them, so she and Stevens ran onto the sidewalk...
...body and dragged it along the road. Another man ran up to the body and slammed a 4ft.-long water pipe down on what remained of the torso. About half a dozen men then affixed two of the bodies to the back of a dark red Opel sedan and dragged them about two miles to a bridge over the Euphrates River, where they were suspended from a girder for all to see. A man climbed onto a donkey cart positioned under the bodies and beat one of the swaying corpses with a pipe. The surrounding crowd chanted, "We are Fallujah...
...with Volkswagen's joint venture. More recently, Chery has run afoul of GM by releasing a car, called the QQ, that looks almost exactly like a GM model--the Spark--that didn't hit the Chinese market until December. PSA Peugeot Citroen, the French maker of the successful Citroen sedan in central China, faces a similar problem. A local producer called Shanghai Maple introduced a model that looks startlingly like the Citroen: same body, same interior, even the same way of tooting the horn from the turn-signal toggle. "It's exactly the same as the Citroen except half...
...effects of hypercompetition in autos are working their way through the system. The cost of a sedan dropped 9% last year in China. And although the country's soaring demand for metals has caused a sharp increase in raw-materials prices this year, overinvestment could eventually cause prices to collapse there too. A metals trader in the U.S., for example, hangs on his wall a world map with black dots indicating the location of aluminum plants. Most producing countries have five or six dots; China has 130. "China is building smelters like McDonald's opens restaurants," says the trader...