Word: chevrolet
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General Motors' popular Chevrolet Beretta sports coupe is as hot as a pistol. In fact, it even has the same name as a pistol. GM denies any connection to the famed brand of Italian guns favored by both the fictitious James Bond and the very real U.S. Army. But last week Italy's Fabbrica d'Armi P. Beretta of Brescia fired off a $250 million suit against GM in Manhattan, charging that the automaker was guilty of trademark infraction and unfair competition...
Like many teenagers on a Friday night, James Cooney needed a car to pick up his girlfriend. He borrowed his good friend Barry Bootan's father's Chevrolet, banged it into a pole and racked up $900 worth of body damage. To come up with the money, the two New York City prep school graduates hatched a bizarre robbery scheme. Over the next 48 hours, youngsters who had never been in trouble played out every parent's nightmare. A minor scrape gave way to panic, then to terror. All judgment vanished. At the end, Cooney, 18, was dead, and four...
...come to Captain Midlife? Has it been there all along? Stay tuned as the insomniac, not-yet-ancient mariner rests his head on the railing at a Knicks-Bulls game in which he is Air-Jordaning three feet over the rim | one moment and the next eloping in a Chevrolet Impala with that remarkably attractive blond behind the refreshment stand, the one lathering mustard on the franks...
...showed some flair with its popular Chevrolet Beretta and Corsica compacts introduced last year. Now the company is gambling $5 billion to gear up its new GM-10 cars for the more profitable midsize market. These front- wheel-drive coupe models of the Buick Regal, Pontiac Grand Prix and Oldsmobile Cutlass (a Chevrolet model is due next year) replace rear-wheel- drive versions. GM engineers have given each of the cars its own distinctive body lines...
...long run, GM expects to rely heavily on advanced technology to turn out the kinds of cars that people want to buy. Eager to demonstrate high-tech pizazz at the show, the company unveiled five "concept" models -- futuristic versions of GMC, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick and Cadillac vehicles. One, the Pontiac Banshee, resembles a spaceship on wheels, with a canopy top that opens like a jet fighter's. Instead of a rearview mirror, the Banshee has a TV camera in the back of the car that feeds a picture to a dashboard monitor...