In the five years since DALE EARNHARDT’s fatal crash at Daytona, the only constants in NASCAR have been change — and the void created by the loss of The Intimidator February 18, 2001, figured to be NASCAR’s coming-out party. It had taken more than five decades, the trip from the Florida beach over the clay [...]
DETROIT — Small cars, the boon and bane of the 1980s auto industry, are making a comeback as automakers rediscover how easy it is to sell good fuel economy and low prices. “Small is big in America,” declares Mark Fields, Ford Motor’s head of American operations. Consider: *In the spring, the top Japanese car companies, [...]
Detroit Scoffed, but the Gas/Electrics Are Here to Stay With $1 billion in taxpayer money poured into the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles in the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three developed a trio of hybrid vehicles (with both gasoline and electric drivetrains for maximum fuel economy). The resulting prototypes were shown off at auto [...]