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...what a difference a decade makes. In an attempt to cut U.S. energy consumption after the shocking 400% increase in the price of imported oil in 1973, Congress in 1975 passed a law that required auto companies to improve the average fuel economy of their new cars gradually to 27.5 m.p.g. by 1985. Now, three Administrations and a glut of cheaper oil later, gasoline-saving passions do not run quite so high. Last week the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which enforces the fuel-efficiency requirements, agreed to lower the standard to 26 m.p.g...
...York has been under way. In the homeland of the Cosa Nostra, 474 alleged Mafiosi, whose ranks range from the reputed "Boss of Bosses," Luciano Liggio, to a corps of picciotti, or soldiers, are in the dock for crimes as high as assassination and as low as auto theft...
...never lived in Paris than of those who did. China's Chou En-lai came in 1920, some 70 years after Karl Marx left Paris for London and eight years after a young Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin moved from Paris to Poland. While working at the Renault auto plant, Chou met a compatriot, Deng Xiaoping, China's present ruler, and together they founded a branch of the Chinese Communist youth organization. One of their contemporaries in Paris was Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh...
...American automakers are enthusiastically turning to Italy, at least partly because the companies want to build vehicles that can fill special, small-volume niches in the marketplace. While typical U.S. auto plants are designed for assembling 220,000 cars annually, Italy still has the kind of shops where skilled workers lavish attention on just 5,000 or 10,000 cars a year. Detroit automakers particularly want to produce top-of-the-line vehicles that can compete with pricey imports. The domestic market for luxury cars, which are defined as those costing $15,000 or more, will make up an estimated...
...road ahead for Honda may become treacherous as competitors begin offering greater financial lures and slick new models. Most auto experts, however, consider that the upstart has now established itself as the kind of contender that much bigger U.S. automakers would do well to watch closely. One reason for keeping a close eye on the feisty company could be seen last September when Marysville changed over from building 1985 Accords to the 1986 model, a process that required a near total retooling of the assembly line. In many U.S.-owned plants, such a changeover can consume several days, even weeks...