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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seat Fiero (base sticker price: $8,310) this year, now says sales will top 100,000. Momentum is also building for the $15,500 turbo-powered Chrysler Laser and Dodge Daytona, which have a claimed top speed of 125 m.p.h. In California, one of the strongest sellers is the Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta, a luxury sports car. Loaded with options such as a sunroof, digital instruments and a cassette player, it sells for about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rekindling and Old Affair | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...Though its Windsor, Ont., plant is operating at full speed and will produce 180,000 minivans this year, Chrysler is hard-pressed to keep up with demand. Some dealers are charging a $2,000 premium on each van. Due within the next nine months are two competing models: the Chevrolet Astro and Ford Aerostar. Industry experts think that minivan sales could go all the way to 750,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rekindling and Old Affair | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...Morning Star community, "Theresa and Larry Jackson just returned from a Bahamian cruise they won playing Chevrolet bingo. The cruise lasted five days." In Pindall, "Edith Vaughn has a new roof and two porches over her trailer house. It looks good." In Oxley, "Mr. and Mrs. Junior Harness took two loads of pigs to Thayer, Mo., last week. They were nice pigs." In the classifieds: "If your cows could talk, they would say buy a registered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arkansas: Whittling Away | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Leonard began by writing Apache-and-cavalry stories for pulps like Dime Western while working in an advertising agency: "I'd get up early, write, then go crank out zingy copy for Chevrolet trucks." By 1967 he had sold his novel Hombre to Hollywood and was liberated from office routine. One divorce, five children and 20 novels later, he arrived at his pared-down adrenal style. By now, he feels, he deserves the signed photograph of Hemingway that decorates his study. Says he: "I learned to write from For Whom the Bell Tolls." But, he concedes, "my attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dickens from Detroit | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...have made no deals to distribute Japanese cars. Chrysler might be able to maintain its market share by selling more models from its Japanese partner, Mitsubishi. The only company to favor a removal of import curbs is General Motors, which plans to sell Suzuki and Isuzu cars through its Chevrolet dealers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Early Warning | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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