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Most Americans associate inexpensive, imported cars with vehicles made in Japan. The Yugoslav-made Yugo GV, which went on sale last week, aims to change . all that. At $3,990 it is the lowest-price auto sold in the U.S., $1,000 less than the next cheapest car, Chevrolet's Japanese-made Sprint. Yet the Yugo's sticker price seems to be just what buyers want. Orders for 3,000 Yugos have flowed into the company's 83 dealerships, mostly in the East and Midwest, where just 500 cars are available. Six-month waiting lists have built up. "Unbelievable," says...
Some of them had not even heard the news when they arrived before 7 a.m. at the factory in Mount Vernon, N.Y., 25 minutes up the train line from Manhattan, to begin assembling printing presses. When one of the employees roared up to the plant in his auto shouting "We won! We won!" some of his friends figured he was just kidding around. After all, such good fortune was hard to believe: against odds of 6 million to 1, who could believe that 21 blue-collar workers, all but two of them immigrants from such places as Poland, Paraguay, China...
...AUTO BUFFS...
Cleaning the car used to be simple, just a glide through the local car wash for $5 or so. Now, thanks to upscale urges, the latest rage is a serious auto grooming from gas cap to hood ornament, which can cost as much as $160 and take half a day. The process, called detailing, has long been employed by used-car dealers to prepare old models for their lots, and is now offered by more than 4,000 shops across the nation, according to the California Carwash Association...
...union's books by the dissident Teamsters for a Democratic Union revealed that Presser paid himself $755,474 last year. That is roughly $185,000 more than the 1984 salary of Chrysler Chief Lee Iacocca, and about ten times the salary of Owen Bieber, head of the United Auto Workers. The T.D.U. says 74 other Teamsters officials made more than $100,000 last year...