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...workers. Sympathy strikes could touch banking, public transport, textiles, insurance companies and the postal service. Audi, the luxury-car unit of Volkswagen, could be forced to shut down in two cities this week. BMW, the Bavaria-based car and motorcycle maker, has already closed two plants. Porsche and Mercedes-Benz might also curtail production...
...Egan warns that Jaguar must spend $300 million before 1989 to keep abreast of the best. Says he: "It's no good for us to do with sweat and tears what Mercedes-Benz achieves with machines." One option for BL is to sell Jaguar...
Thomas Perkins: Master Mechanic. For fun, Perkins tinkers with very old automobiles. Using well-worn wrenches and lots of elbow grease, he and a team of mechanics have restored a collection of nearly two dozen 1930s sports cars. Among them: a Mercedes-Benz Special Roadster, a deep sea-blue Bugatti and a Duesenberg once owned by a maharajah. "They have to run right," he says, "or they're not worth having...
Anthony Forstmann, 46, and Joel Left, 48. The two partners in Manhattan- based Forstmann-Leff Associates are known in pension-fund circles as "the flashy ones." They wear designer suits, travel around the U.S. in Learjets and chauffeured Mercedes-Benz limousines and own Thoroughbred horses...
...sent samples last spring to such departent-store chains as Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, which quickly decided that the bonbon biscuits would make excellent Christmas gifts at about $10 a box. Grey, a former Playboy bunny and wife of a Los Angeles lawyer, put up her Mercedes-Benz 4505L as collateral for a $25,000 bank loan to build her fledgling business. Since starting full-scale production early last fall, she has shipped 25,000 boxes...