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...company is aiming the G24 at a less depressed segment of the car market: relatively affluent buyers who have a taste for speed and dash and might be customers for GM's Camaro or Firebird, or Toyota's Celica. In Motor Trend's tests, the G24 hit 60 m.p.h. in 8.22 sec., close to the industry's performance leader, Ford's 302 HO Mustang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gee! The G24 | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...unheralded team to victory in January's Super Bowl. Still, Joe Montana's famed cool-underpressure should get a pressurized workout at this weekend's pro/celebrity race during the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif. Montana, 25 has been behind the wheel of a Toyota Celica, running practice laps at California's Riverside International Raceway. Among the varied competitors scheduled for the 21.3-mile race are: Actor Robert Hays, Rock Star Ted Nugent, Race Drivers Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser and fellow 49er Linebacker Jack ("Hacksaw") Reynolds. Racing on the same track as pros like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 5, 1982 | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...hefty 22% share of the market. Now that Japan has agreed to limit its exports of cars to the U.S. for the next two years, its producers are radically changing their sales strategy. Tiny gas misers are giving way to more premium-priced sporty models, such as the Toyota Celica, and expensive full-size cars like the Datsun 810 Maxima...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dazzling Display in Tokyo | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...size, and buyers have spent $20,000 or more for opulent, lengthy Fleetwoods and Eldorados. The Cimarron represents a bold attempt to transfer that 78-year-old image to a car that is 4 ft. shorter than the now standard Cadillac and nearly the same size as a Toyota Celica. The mini-Caddie will carry the expected gewgaws and gimcracks, including electric remote-controlled side-view mirrors, an array of interior lamps and leather upholstery. But it will also have some unusual features for a Cadillac, like a tachometer, usually found only in sports cars. Price of the car: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit Is Fighting Back | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

Detroit now readily admits that in comparison to the Japanese, it has been seriously deficient in the area of "fits and finishes," the production imperfections like badly hung doors and poorly fastened trim. At its Fisher Body plant in Fairfield, Ohio, GM put a Toyota Celica on display alongside an Oldsmobile Omega to let workers see the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Uphill Battle | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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