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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reining In the Runaway Dollar | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next, Toyolets | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...subcompact-size auto, which would be patterned after the popular Toyota Corolla, is to be assembled at a now closed GM plant in Fremont, Calif. About half the parts, including the all-important engine and drive train, would be made by Toyota in Japan. A second factory would be built next door to produce metal body parts. Production of the car, which would probably be marketed by Chevrolet dealers, is scheduled to begin in late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amerasian Auto | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

Your article on the Toyo Kogyo Co. [April 26] states that the Mazda GLC is the world's third bestselling model, behind the Toyota Corolla and the Volkswagen Rabbit. You have been misinformed. Ford's Escort is the bestselling car in the world. Estimates for 1981 show Ford Escort at 823,000, the VW Rabbit at 759,000 and the Toyota Corolla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1982 | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

Mazda's front-wheel-drive compact, known in the U.S. as the GLC (for Great Little Car), has become the world's third bestselling model after the Toyota Corolla and the Volkswagen Rabbit. Mazda's RX7, the only rotary engine vehicle that the company exports, is the second most popular foreign sports car in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comeback Kids | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

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