...about 18 months ago, but both Lincoln and Cadillac are a day late and a dollar short," said Gordon Wangers, president of AMCI, an automotive consulting firm in Vista, Calif. The Blackwood's molded plastic cargo compartment is carpeted, has brushed...

...is real appreciation that the Japanese are building some seriously great machinery, especially in their luxury brands," said auto industry consultant Gordon Wangers, president of AMCI, a Vista, Calif.-based market research company.