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by Micheline Maynard


  Fraser, Douglas

  Fuji Heavy Industries

  Fujimoto, Takahiro

  Gagnon, Pierre

  Gale, Tom

  Garfield, Bob

  Gettelfinger, Ron

  Ghosn, Carlos

  Gilmour, Allan

  Girsky, Stephen

  Giugaro studios, Italy

  Gjertsen, Ed, II

  GM; A-cars; acquisitions; “apology ads”; Autonomy; bank that builds cars; brands, proliferation of; Cadillac; Cadillac Catera; Cadillac CTS; Cadillac Escalade; Cadillac Seville STS sedan; Cadillac Sixteen; Cadillac SRX; Cadillac XLR; CEO (see Wagoner, Rick); Chevrolet Blazer; Chevrolet Corvette; Chevrolet Impala; Chevrolet Malibu,; Chevrolet Silverado; Chevrolet Tahoe; China expansion; dealers; employee pension and health care costs (legacy costs); engines from Honda; EV1; Fiat and; foreign investments and sales; GMC Envoy; GMC Sierra; goal to be big and grow; Hummer H2; hybrids and hydrogen cell; import brands; J-cars; Keep America Rolling campaign; market share; market strategy; minivan, brands and; Oldsmobile; Opel Zafira; operating margin; outsourcing; philosophy and new identity push; platform sharing; Pontiac Grand Am; Pontiac GTO; poor quality of vehicles; production of car parts; profits; rebates and sales incentives; rental car fleets; resale values; restructuring,; Saturn; Saturn factory, Spring Hill, TN; SUVs; tear-down of Taurus; Toyota joint venture (NUMMI); trucks; Tuscaloosa shut-down averted; UAW contracts; UAW strike, 1998; upcoming cars; vice chairman (see Lutz, Bob); X-cars

  Hakim, Danny

  Hall, Jim

  Hammell, Joe

  Hammond, Gordon

  Harbour & Associates

  Hargitt, Dana

  Hassan, Emil

  Hayes, Walter

  Heltman, Sam

  Higginbottom, Paul

  Hirashima, Koki

  Hirshberg, Gerald

  Honda Motor Company; Accord; Acura; Acura CL and TL; Acura MDX; Acura RL; Alliston, Ontario, plant; American consumers; American sales; Anna, OH, engine plant; Asimo (robot); board of directors; Civic; corporate culture; corporate headquarters; crossovers; CR-V; customers; customers, repeat; CVCC; development of U.S. models, strategy; earnings, 2002; East Liberty, OH, plant; EBD (electronic braking distribution); Element SUV; employee training; employee wages and benefits; employment conditions; engineers rule; engines, wax coating; entry into American market; first cars produced (N360); first U.S. factory; first U.S. imports; Fit subcompact; founder (Soichiro Honda); founding family; “go to the spot” philosophy; fuel efficiency; Honda Way; HR-V; hybrids (see also Insight, below); hydrogen fuel-cell car (FCV); Insight; introduction of new vehicles; Lincoln, AL, plant; LPJ (large project leader); management; manufacturing kept in-house; marketing strategy; Marysville, OH, complex; Mobilio minivan; motorcycles; nonunion workers; Odyssey; operating margin; origins of company; Passport SUV; pickup truck; Pilot SUV; priority of vehicle; production numbers; profit margins; quality; ranking in Japan; safety; sales incentives; SUVs; Suzuka, Japan, plant; Swindon, England, factory; testing of vehicles; Tochigi, Japan, Research and Development Center; Torrance, CA, Research and Development Center; Toyota compared to; U.S. factories; U.S. market, 1970s; vehicles sold, 2002; Wako, Japan, research center and plant; waiting lists

  Honda, Soichiro

  Hostetter, Chris

  Huffington, Arianna

  Hughes, Larry

  Hyundai Motor Co.; brand image; CEO (see O’Neill, Finbarr); as competitor to Japanese; customer; crossovers; DaimlerChrysler and; Design and Technical Center; Elantra; Excel; founder; Fountain Valley, CA, headquarters; goals for expansion and U.S. sales; history; Kia acquisition; marketing strategy; Montgomery, AL, complex; nameplate increase; Pony; quality problems; quality turnaround; Santa Fe; Sonata; Tiburon coupe; Ulsan, Korea, complex; U.S. sales; warranty, 100,000 miles; XG 350

  Iace, Mike

  Iacocca, Lee: at Chrysler; at Ford

  Illingworth, Dave (J. Davis)

  Imports. See Foreign-based car companies

  Inaba, Yoshi

  Isuzu

  J. D. Power & Associates

  Jaguar

  Japan Automotive Research Institute

  Jeep. See Chrysler

  “Jewelry”

  Jones, Kathy

  Kagay, Gregory L.

  Kia. See also Hyundai

  Kim Don-Jin

  King, Bob

  Kirilko, Robert

  Knight, Ben

  Kowaleski, Tom

  Lear Corp.

  Lee, Bruce

  Lentz, James

  Lexus. See Toyota

  Lott, Trent

  Lovejoy, William

  Lutz, Bob; Cadillac Sixteen; Camry criticism

  Machine That Changed the World, The (Womack)

  Magliocci, Tom and Ray

  Mazda: American sales; Japanese market share; Ford joint venture; U.S. factories

  McCurry, Robert

  Mercedes-Benz; American luxury market; C-Class; CLK convertible; corporate culture and philosophy; cost of vehicles; DaimlerChrysler and; E-Class; employee training; Gelandeswagen; labor unions and; lineup expansion; M-Class SUV; Mohringen headquarters; priority of vehicle; quality; sales; S-Class; Sindelfingen factory; SLK coupe; Unterterkheim complex; Vance, AL, plant

  Michelin, Francois

  Michelin tires; acquisition of Uniroyal-Goodrich; South Carolina headquarters

  Mississippi: Canton, Nissan plant

  Mitsubishi: ad campaign; Chrysler stake in; Eclipse coupe; Lancer; marketing strategy; sales; sales growth; sales incentives; U.S. factories; youth market

  Modular assembly

  Morton, James C.

  Musgrove, Ronnie

  My Life and Work (Ford)

  Nakamura, Shiro

  Nasser, Jacques

  Nielsen, Chris

  Nissan; Altima; American sales; Avon Lake, OH, factory; board of directors; Canton, MS, factory; Carson, CA, sales operations; CEO (see Ghosn, Carlos); Chrysler comparison; clinics abolished; comeback plan; corporate culture; DaimlerChrysler takeover try; dealers; design; employee wages and benefits; Farmington Hills, MI, Technical Center; financial problems; Ford joint venture; Frontier; Gobi; IBAS assembly system; Infiniti; Infiniti FX SUV; Infiniti X5; Jackson plant; Japanese market share; keiretsu or zaibatsu; La Jolla, CA Design America; management; Maxima; Murano; new models under Ghosn; Nissan 180 plan; nonunion workers; operating margin; origins as carmaker; plant closings; platform sharing; profit margins; Quest minivan; Recovery Plan; Renault, takeover by; repeat customers; Smyrna, TN, factory; SUVs; Titan pickup; Tokyo headquarters; U.S. factories; U.S. sales; Xterra; Z sports car

  Nunez, Lou

  O’Connor, Jim

  Odagaki, Kunimichi

  Ohio: American carmakers in; governor, Taft; Honda in

  Ohno, Taiichi

  Okuda, Hiroshi

  Olson, James

  O’Neill, Finbarr

  Otto, Gustav

  Padilla, Jim

  Panke, Helmut

  Pawley, Dennis

  Penrose, John

  Penske, Greg

  Perkins, Jim

  Pestillo, Peter

  Petersen, Donald

  Petersen, George

  Pinelli, Ron

  Platform sharing

  Porsche; Cayenne SUV

  Portera, Malcolm

  Press, James

  Quandt, Herbert and family

  Rapp, Karl

  Reichardt, Carl

  Renaissance (Ghosn)

  Renault; American Motors sale; CEO (see Schweitzer, Louis); Megane; Megane Scenic; Nissan and; plant closing, Vilvoorde, Belgium; Twingo; Volvo merger attempt. See also Ghosn, Carlos

  Renschler, Andreas

  Rental car fleets: GM and; Taurus and

  Ritter, Andy

  Ritter, Kurt

  Rover; BMW and; Land Rover; Range Rover. See also BMW, Mini Cooper

  Runge, Jeffrey

  Saab

  Sandlin, Mark

  Scaffede, Russ

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sp; Scheele, Nicholas V.

  Schrempp, Juergen

  Schroer, Jim

  Schweitzer, Louis

  Sheridan, Steve

  Sloan, Alfred P.

  Smith, Dan

  Smith, Jack

  Smith, Roger B.

  Spinella, Art

  Sprinzen, Scott

  Stempel, Robert

  Stewart, John

  Sugimoto, Tomiji

  Suzuki, Ichiro

  Suzuki Motor Company; Samurai

  Taft, Robert

  Taylor, Bill

  Teixeiria, A. J.

  Tennessee: Nissan factory, Smyrna; Saturn factory, Spring Hill

  Tewell, Mike

  Texas: pickup trucks; Toyota, San Antonio truck plant

  Thursfield, David

  Togo, Yuki

  Toyoda, Akia

  Toyoda, Akio

  Toyoda, Eiji

  Toyoda, Kiichiro

  Toyoda, Risaboro

  Toyoda, Sakichi

  Toyoda, Tatsuro

  Toyota Financial Services

  Toyota Motor Corporation; AA; Ann Arbor, MI, Technical Center; Avalon; board of directors; Cambridge, Ontario, plant; Camry; CEO (see Cho, Fujio); Chairman (see Okuda, Hiroshi); Corolla; Corolla FX; Corona; corporate culture; corporate headquarters; crossover; customers; dealers; employee wages and benefits; engine plant, Huntsville, AL; Ford and; founding family; 4Runner; French plants; Georgetown, KY, factory; GM joint venture (NUMMI); global and projected growth; goal to be world’s biggest; “go to the spot” approach; Highlander; Honda comparison; hybrids (see also Prius, below); independence; jidoka; kaizen; Land Cruiser; as leader in industry; leadership; Lexus; Lexus dealers; Lexus ES; Lexus ES 300; Lexus GS 400; Lexus GX; Lexus hybrids; Lexus IS 300; Lexus LS 400; Lexus LS 430; Lexus LX 470; Lexus RX 300; Lexus RX 330; Lexus SC 430 coupe; luxury market; market approach; market share, Camry; Mexican plant, Baja; minivan (see also Sienna, below); Nagoya offices; nonunion workers; Ohno and; operating margin; origins as carmaker; platform sharing; Previa; Princeton, IN, plant; priority of vehicle; Prius; profit margins; profits and finances; “pull system” (just-in-time); quality; ranking in Japan; RAV-4; rebates and sales incentives; repeat customers; resale values; research and development; San Antonio truck plant; Scio; Sienna; SUVs; Torrance, CA, sales headquarters; Toyopet, 20; Toyota City; Toyota Production System (TPS); Toyota Way; trucks, Tundra (full-sized pickup), T-100, Tacoma, and light truck market; U. S. Army truck orders; U.S. factories; U.S. management, building of; U.S. market; U. S. sales; World War II

  Trotman, Alexander

  Turner, Todd

  United Auto Workers (UAW); concessions; Detroit contracts; politics and; right-to-work states

  Volkswagen; Beetle; Beetle convertible; Bus; free-maintenance plan; Karmann Ghia; market approach; Passat; Phaeton; sales; Tourag

  Volvo: Ford and; Renault and; safety and

  Von Cannon, Theodore

  Von Kuhnheim, Eberhard

  Wade, Neal

  Wagoner, G. Richard

  Walton, Mary

  Watson, Carroll “Lew” L.

  Werner, Helmut

  White, Bob

  Williams, Arthur

  Womack, James

  Yoshino, Hiroyuki

  Yugo

  Zetsche, Dieter

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