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THE MAN BEHIND GM'S `ACCIDENTAL' WORLD-CAR SUCCESS

July 19, 1999 05:00 AM

RUSSELSHEIM - Hideo Kodama saw little opportunity to become a car designer in his native Japan in the mid-1960s, so he applied at General Motors and started work for Adam Opel in Germany.

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