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...place finish in J.D. Power's highly regarded annual survey of car customer satisfaction. Not only was that the highest ranking achieved by any U.S. make in the respected survey, but at an average price of $12,500, Saturn was alone among luxury favorites such as Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, all with price tags three times as high...
Also a 1990s price tag: $50,000. On a per-horsepower basis, that compares favorably with the Acura NSX and Ferrari. But for red-blooded Americans who dream of empty roads and police in innocent Chevys, the homegrown Viper is likely to be more a matter of pure lust...
Leto Lopez looked no different from his Westchester County neighbors: he wore conservative suits, lived in a $775,000 colonial house and drove an Acura Legend. He opened a public fax service to mix his drug messages with thousands of others dispatched by honest customers. He set up an import business and actually imported South American furniture so that the U.S. Customs Service would think he was a legitimate businessman...
After the highly publicized Baby I bust, Leto stayed away from his house and offices, which DEA agents were watching. One day in March 1990, he happened to drive past a DEA team running another surveillance in Queens. As the agents started tailing him, he whipped his Acura into a fast U-turn and melted into the traffic. The next thing the agents knew, Leto was back in Colombia -- where his luck ran out. At the request of the U.S. government, police arrested...
...killed us," laments Norman Scott, a Mercedes-Benz dealer in Houston. "Those guys in Washington are crazy." Consumers seeking to avoid the levy are switching to cars whose prices fall just below $30,000. Mercedes and Lexus sales have plummeted 27% and 10%, respectively, in the first quarter, but Acura dealers report no major dent in sales...