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Similarly, buying top-price imports no longer seems so smart. Many U.S. products have regained their reputation for quality and value. U.S. sales of Porsches fell 69% from 1986 to 1989, from 30,471 to 9,479, though they recovered 19% during the first five months of this year. BMW's U.S. sales dropped 33% from 1986 to 1989, from 96,759 to 64,881 cars, and slipped an additional 10% in the first five months of this year...
GEMACHT IN THE U.S.A. Worried about Japanese entries into the luxury car market, BMW will abandon a 40-year tradition of crafting cars exclusively in West Germany. American suppliers have been told that the company plans to open an assembly plant in the U.S. in the mid-1990s to cut delivery time. But will a BMW not built in Bavaria have the same snob appeal...
Ideally, an emblematic passage would provide the unambiguous evidence of awfulness. Alther's opening three words ("An ivory BMW") and her initial description of her middle-aged, open-married Manhattan heroine ("Clea Shawn was a sophisticated woman . . . she'd been in love so often that her heart felt like a sponge mop") are certainly warning signs. So is Alther's early summary of the passions that bind two women "Elke felt like a pile of nails being pulled to pieces by a magnet residing inside Clea." But such maladroit introductory passages could be dismissed as the ironic setup...
Designed with the smoggy Los Angeles basin in mind, the battery-powered prototype accelerates from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8 seconds -- faster than a BMW 325i -- and has a range of 120 miles between recharges. The Impact would cost about twice as much to operate as an average car, primarily because the batteries would have to be replaced every 20,000 miles...
About the "MAKE BUCKS, NOT LOVE" bumper stickers which Professor Blumenthal would stick on the BMW s of our generation (and given our single-mindedness, we will, I read, all have them). To begin with, Professor Blumenthal assumes that the decision "not to crowd the other one" is necessarily selfish. On the one hand, the decision "not to crowd" is an economic reality. The American dream of living better than our parents, or living as well as our parents, simply requires more effort today than it did. The dual-career family, which only became the norm with our parents' generation...