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...pickup in a parking lot. So many cars were being attacked in "smash-and-run" incidents while passing the Nickerson Gardens housing project that authorities walled off the adjacent highway with a spiked metal fence. Fire Captain Tom Crowley says arson has become a spectator sport, with punks torching buildings "just to watch us work." Bobby Spears, 31, a janitor and father of four, knows who robbed him recently but will not press charges out of fear for his family's safety...
Still, Hyundai's sweet spot is value for money. The Tucson, its newest sport ute, is about $4,000 less than the Santa Fe SUV. It doesn't surrender comfort or interior space for the sake of feeling sporty. The Tucson doesn't overimpress with styling; few cars in this category do. But the slightly pricier GLS version has a V-6, 2.7-liter engine that doesn't whine when the car is filled with four adults and luggage. It's practical almost to a fault.--By Bill Saporito
...Hyundai, South Korea's largest car manufacturer, was a synonym for shoddy. Seoul was the only place in the world where you were likely to see large numbers of its cars on the street. Today the company's line of pleasantly stylish, relatively inexpensive and certifiably reliable sedans and sport-utility vehicles is tailgating the industry's best-known brands in several prime markets. In the U.S., where...
...sales, General Motors recently shocked investors by reporting a $1.1 billion first-quarter loss, and Ford has downgraded its 2005 profit forecast. Chung is determined to keep the pressure on. He's moving Hyundai's product line into larger, higher-profit vehicles. In October, Hyundai unveiled a small sport-utility vehicle, the Tucson. Later this year the company will launch a new high-end sedan for the U.S. market, the Azera, and early in 2006 it will introduce a minivan, the Entourage. Down the road Hyundai plans to roll out a larger SUV and its first hybrid vehicle. The company...
...then the Colombians, the English and the Nigerians. Finally he stopped to chat with the 15-member U.S. team and three accompanying American reporters, the first group of U.S. citizens and journalists to visit China in nearly a quarter of a century ... Probably never before in history has a sport been used so effectively as a tool of international diplomacy. With its premium on delicate skill and its onomatopoeic name implying an interplay of initiative and response, Ping Pong was an apt metaphor for the relations between Washington and Peking. "I was quite a Ping Pong player in my days...