Word: corolla
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...sign of the changing automotive times is that U.S. companies are collaborating with the Japanese in their new enterprises. This fall, as Toyota starts annual production of 50,000 of its peppy Corolla FX-16 at a joint- venture plant in Fremont, Calif., it is also assembling 200,000 Chevy Novas for GM. Ford, which since 1979 has owned 25% of Mazda, has agreed to buy up to 50% of the output of that company's Michigan plant, to be sold as part of the Mustang series. Chrysler and Mitsubishi have a joint project known as Diamond Star, which will...
...vote, which will become final after a 60-day period for public comment, opens the way for the partners to begin producing the cars late next fall. Experts look for the new auto, already dubbed the Toyolet by Detroit wags, to resemble Toyota's redesigned 1984 Corolla, which sells for some...
Using her powers. Ten Dorp (Jodie Barrett) predicts the play's murders, but her warnings are ignored because she has a slightly imperfect gift. (She predicts the arrival of Anderson's typewriter as a small Black man named Smith Corolla.) Barrett's broad campish delivery relieves the tension of some of the murders. Delivering the play's best exit line, she exclaims. "Ach, my daughter, she is pregnant, after all those years of trying she has finally made me a grandmother. I must go tell...
...been saving on imported goods ranging from French wines to Japanese videotape recorders. A top-of-the-line German camera that cost $1,159 last year now sells for about $950. Experts estimate that the strong dollar has cut some $700 from the sticker price of a new Toyota Corolla. Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department, says that the dollar's strength "makes the vast majority of consumers very happy. But they don't have a spokesman...
...cars a year in late 1984 in a GM plant in Fremont, Calif, that once employed as many as 6,000 workers but has been idle since March. The front-wheel-drive subcompact-quickly dubbed the Toyolet in Detroit-will be patterned on a new version of the Toyota Corolla and will sell for a base price of about $6,500. GM and Toyota will be equal partners in the plant, but Toyota has the right to pick the boss. The firms expect the enterprise to hire 3,000 workers in Fremont and create 9,000 more jobs in each...