The bus was in collision with a sedan car and a pick-up truck pulling a trailer, Mr Lopez said.
Nissan is hiring an additional 400 people over the next two years to make its Murano sports utility vehicle in Mississippi, while Honda is adding 50 new jobs in Ohio where it will build its new hybrid Accord sedan car.
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In 2010 the Ford brand swept both categories, for its Fusion Hybrid sedan in the car category and Transit Connect in the truck segment.
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Besides the usual hatchback, sedan and SUV, car shoppers today can consider yet-to-be-categorized cars such as the Mazda5, a micro-minivan, or Mercedes-Benz's R-Class, a maxi-station wagon.
But Buick sales fell 3 percent, and sales of the Impala full-size car and Malibu midsize sedan plummeted more than 30 percent.
General Motors Co. will make another attempt to get Buick to appeal to younger buyers with freshened up versions of the Regal midsize sports sedan and the LaCrosse large luxury car.
Another start-up, Fisker Automotive, will debut with the sexy Karma, a plug-in hybrid sports car, then launch a sedan of its own.
Better yet, the rear seat is roomy enough for the sedan to be used as a town car of sorts, with a driver up front while the passenger works in the back.
And they buy Panameras and Caymans because true prestige in China is to be driven in a big sedan, not drive yourself in a sports car.
For example, all other things being equal, people will attend to more details about a person who has a hot car than one driving a basic sedan.
This week, for instance, Honda is introducing a redesigned version of its Accord mid-size sedan with an infotainment system that pipes Facebook into the car.
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During the announcement, Ford Chief Executive Bill Ford, Jr. called the American consumer's move away from SUVs "breathtaking" and said his company would lean heavily on its new and coming car models, like the new 500 large sedan, the hot new Mustang and the coming Fusion mid-sized sedan to pull his company out of the doldrums.
Still, a four-cylinder Honda Accord leaving a sports car in the dust does say something: Despite being grossly out of its element on a racetrack as shown by how much the car leaned when changing directions this midsize sedan is so well engineered that it maintains poise even when being flung about.
But a Jetsons-style flying car that can be piloted as easily as a family sedan still seems a long way off.
In the nearby white sedan, the young man he had tried to pull from the car was slumped over the wheel.
Although she would like a new car, she decides that her five-year-old sedan has several years of useful life in it.
Hyundai squeezed 128 pounds out of its 2011 Sonata sedan without gutting its performance (see graphic, "A Car's Crash Diet").
And Ford dubbed last year "the year of the car" as it introduced the stately, if staid, 500 sedan and its iconic Mustang.
It's the only big, eight-cylinder, rear-wheel-drive sedan built by Detroit the old way: by welding the body of the car onto a stiff frame.
This fall, Saturn got the steak: a four-door sedan called the Aura that is meant to compete head-on with the passenger car leaders, Toyota Camry and Honda Accord.
Still, the Lexus will give you more of a traditional luxury-car experience while the Honda feels (and sounds) more like a sport sedan.
These days, you can buy a family sedan, a station wagon or even an SUV that would blow the doors off a sports car made only a few years ago.
The car will get different sheet metal and an altered interior from the Impreza -based sedan, but if you look under the hood you'll see a Subaru engine, and everywhere else you look you'll see Subaru, not Saab parts.
Ultimately, buyers who choose this sedan are paying for performance and craftsmanship over practicality, much like with a high-end sports car.
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At the same time, another rival state-owned car-maker, Nanjing Automobile, will produce its own version of the Rover 75 sedan model, called the MG7.
The average American is driving an 11-year-old car, so your shopping list is probably different from the last time you shopped for a sedan.
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His car was one of the most expensive Mercedes-Benzes, a 2010 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG sedan.
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