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...stunned by the price tags on the new models rolling out of Detroit. Ford announced last week that its new subcompact Escort would cost at least $5,128. That is over $1,000 more than the Pinto it replaces and will be about $200 more than a 1981 Toyota Corolla. GM's hot-selling Chevrolet Citation four-door hatchback at $6,282 will cost 9.6% more this autumn; the price has risen almost 40% since it was introduced 1½years ago. To make the price increases more palatable,GM announced that it is doubling the warranty...
...growing fast. The top-selling small models are still U.S. products: the Ford Fairmont and the Chevrolet Citation among the compacts, and the Chevette and Chrysler's Omnis and Horizons among the subcompacts. But the third and fourth bestsellers in the subcompact category are the Toyota Corolla and the Datsun...
...foreign makes. But the automen say most of the imports that are selling well are not significantly better on gas than the most abstemious U.S. cars. For instance, Toyota's compact Corona gets about the same mileage as Ford's Fairmont; the Corolla gets only slightly better mileage than the Chevette, which, with a rating of 26 m.p.g. in city driving and 36 m.p.g. on the highway, is the most gas-stingy...
Another Detroit peeve is the imports' low prices. At least four Japanese manufacturers now offer models for well under $4,000; for example, the Toyota Corolla Tercel's base price is $3,698. The price tags on comparable U.S. subcompacts are significantly higher: $4,289 for a two-door Chevette hatchback, $4,492 for American Motors' Spirit D/L, $5,271 for the two-door Omni hatchback...
...hallucinations of breakbone fever, in a Malay medicine man who is accused of turning into a weretiger to commit murder, and in a chilling description of the noxious Midnight Horror tree: "The flowers are pollinated by bats which are attracted by the smell and, holding to the fleshy corolla with the claws on their wings, thrust their noses into its throat; scratches, as of bats, can be seen on the fallen leaves the next morning...