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...around Neptune. In interviews, he is often incoherent. In a new book called Reggae Bloodlines, Stephen Davis, former associate editor of Rolling Stone, asked Marley how he felt about his Rastafarian friends who point to Marley's car as a sign of Marley's increasing materialism. Marley responded, "Well, BMW not the system. Babylon the system. some say BMW mean Bob Marley and Wailers. BMW mean...British Made War car or something like that. This car doesn't belong to me. This car belong to the road. That who the car belong to. Better than the donkey...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Bob Marley: The Rasta Wizard Puts on Ivy | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

...Mustang cost about $10,400 each, compared with the sticker price of $9,700 for a VW Passat (which is called Dasher in the U.S.). The Chevy Caprice sells for about $14,000, or $1,000 less than the top-line Audi 100LS and $2,000 less than the BMW 525. Indeed, the dollar has declined so much that in some European countries, U.S. cars cost less than they did last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Love Affair in Germany | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...Felici, 66, the "ruthless" front-running candidate on the right, is said to use a telephoto lens to monitor Pope Paul's movements about his palace. Another Curia Cardinal, Giuseppe Maria Sensi, is said to be "a lover of fast cars" who currently zips about in a red BMW 3000. In Guatemala, Mario Casariego has been so closely identified with the regime that his automobile is always accompanied by "a radio patrol and two armed motorcycle guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Papal Oddsmaking | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...current of sadness that runs through his music, Seger remains a modest, ebullient figure who still drives him self home from local concerts in a red BMW. A working-class kid from Ann Arbor, Seger lives with his steady girl in a modest ranch house 50 miles from Detroit. Fans have discovered the address, and "just the other night," Seger reports, "a girl tried to get into the kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hang Left out of Nutbush: Hang Left out of Nutbush | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

DAVE WAS WAITING, his red BMW parked in the dark outside Lowell House. He wasn't too pleased by my lateness and was non-plussed by my offering of a warm bottle of beer. TK was even later, coming up the drive in bow tie after early morning oysters in Chinatown. But soon we were all tucked in and off through the lifting gray of Central Square on what was to be our last attempt at summer...

Author: By Jon Finegold, | Title: The Last of Summer | 11/3/1976 | See Source »

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