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...help make its Mexican car. Ford has teamed up with Toyo Kogyo, Japan's third-largest auto company, after Toyota and Nissan, and the maker of Mazda cars. Toyo Kogyo (1983 sales: $5.8 billion), 25% owned by Ford, will supply engines and transmissions for the Mexican model from its Hiroshima factories...
...counterparts. Ford expects to employ 3,000 workers when it starts to produce the subcompact in late 1986. American union leaders immediately called the move a threat to job security. The Ford plant will become the second-largest automobile factory in Mexico and a tonic for its sickly auto industry, which last year produced 260,000 cars, down from...
...Paulson, 61, founder of Gulfstream Aerospace, the maker of plush corporate jets. As an Iowa farm boy growing up in the Depression, Paulson supported himself by selling newspapers and cleaning hotel bathrooms. Following high school, he went to work for TWA as a mechanic and moonlighted at an auto-repair garage. After selling surplus airplane parts and advising competing airlines and then TWA on engine design, Paulson in 1951 set up his own business converting surplus passenger planes into cargo aircraft. It grew, and by 1978 he was ready to begin building airplanes on his own. He acquired Grumman...
...still revving. The Dukes of Hazzard, an endless demolition derby masquerading as a plot, features a 1969 Dodge Charger called General Lee whose owners minister to it as the Lone Ranger did to Silver. (Just as the cowboy could kiss his pony but not his gal, the new auto-cowboys make much of caressing the curves of their hoods.) The latest incarnation of the car as creature is NBC's Knight Rider, a computerized, talking Trans Am that is a lineal descendant (with a slight Freudian twist) of the grouchy 1928 Porter that haunted Jerry Van Dyke...
...machine disguised as a person. On My Living Doll, Julie Newmar was a robot who camouflaged her engineering as sexual equipment: her breasts encased solar batteries. Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man was simply state-of-the-art beefcake. Now an ABC show of stupefying banality called Auto-man offers a fluorescent, blond Superman who is summoned up by a wimpish computer jock in moments of crisis. Automan owes more to I Dream of Jeannie than to computer science, however. Another new show, NBC's Riptide, has something for every armchair technocrat, including a klutzy orange robot...