21.   That may seem odd, considering the millions of dollars spent on high-tech car design and improvements.

22.   The cockpit is heavily reinforced on the safety cage principle used in race car design, but much stronger.

23.   The government defines sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks and minivans as light trucks, though minivans and a few sport utility vehicles are actually based on car designs.

24.   The moves highlight a continuing shift in emphasis at GM, to car design from marketing.

25.   Unlike Jaguar, Volvo is profitable and has a fairly wide selection of modern car designs.

26.   Yeagley said he was led to the study of car design after he and a group of his students witnessed a mountain-road car crash.

27.   Earlier this week, Mazda President Henry Wallace said the company will merge its new computerized system for car design and production with a similar one at Ford.

28.   Earlier concerns about breakage resulting from railroad cars banging into one another have been eased as a result of improved car design, new handling procedures and other innovations.

29.   For instance, with a flood of baby boomers approaching retirement age, car designs in the future may incorporate easier-to-read instrument panels.

30.   GM plans to use computer techniques such as three-dimensional imaging to replace tedious clay modeling in the early stages of new car design.