Word: bmw
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...gouging. Now much of that steel-and-glass space stands empty. The downtown vacancy rate, less than 1% when the energy boom peaked in 1981, has risen to 13%; the city wide rate is 20%. One landlord had offered real estate agents free trips to Paris and even luxury BMW autos as bonuses for helping to fill a new building. Other developers are giving up. Canterra Energy of Canada, an oil and gas exploration company, has dropped plans for a 30- to 35-story office tower and put the site, now a parking lot, up for sale...
...Volvo expects to sell (73,000) during all of 1982. Still, with models that range in price from $12,000 to $20,000, Volvo has succeeded in skimming some of the luxury cream off the automotive market, along with its prospering high-priced competitors Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Saab and Porsche. Notes Analyst David Healy of New York's Drexel Burnham Lambert: "Only the affluent can consider buying cars now. To them money is no object...
...made his dreams come true. Lewellyn, who ran a brokerage company in Des Moines, wore custom-made suits that he bought in batches. He lived with his wife and two children in a $200,000 home in a suburb of Des Moines. The family owned a Mercedes-Benz, a BMW, a Chevrolet and a Jeep Wagoneer...
Police estimated the total value of property stolen last week at $13,869 including eight wallets, a set of wind-shield wipers, a 1978 BMW and a black desk phone...
...cort and Lynx cars, as well as a scaled-down model of the Lincoln Continental that will sell for about $21,000. The trim new luxury car, which gets 17 m.p.g. in city driving, is intended to draw drivers away from sporty foreign cars like Mer cedes and BMW. Beams Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell: "I've personally sold half a dozen of them already...