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...Toyota, 3,220,418; Nissan, 3,100,968; Volkswagen-Audi, 2,210,666; Renault, 1,810,365; Peugeot-Citroen-Talbot, 1,593,943; Fiat, 1,209,819; Toyo Kogyo (Mazda), 1,176,608; Mitsubishi, 1,094,793; Honda, 1,008,927; Chrysler, 1,002,464; Lada (U.S.S.R.), 830,000; Daimler-Benz, 712,315; Suzuki...
...next, changes under the surface of life's routines are actually occurring at almost unimaginable speed. Just 100 years ago, parts of New York City were lighted for the first time by a strange new force called electricity; just 100 years ago, the German Engineer Gottlieb Daimler began building a gasoline-fueled internal combustion engine (three more years passed before he fitted it to a bicycle). So it is with the computer...
...reason Volkswagen is first in the high-mileage sweepstakes has been its participation in the West German government's Vehicle of the Future research project. Begun in 1978 with the participation of VW, Audi, Daimler-Benz, Porsche and BMW, the program has brought engineering advances in everything from engine design to the use of lightweight plastic in bodies, frames and even in axles. VW has received $7.5 million in government funds and spent another $7.5 million of its own money on the studies. Though Ford and General Motors are independently working on high-mileage cars for the early 1990s...
Sophisticated though they are, the Kuwaitis have also made some mistakes and miscalculations. In the 1970s the sheikdom tried to acquire a controlling interest in West Germany's Daimler-Benz automaker but abandoned the effort after German bankers formed a consortium to keep the power in German hands. Last year Kuwait bid $982 million for a 14.6% share of Getty Oil of Los Angeles but dropped the tender offer after executors of the estate of J. Paul Getty resisted. In spite of such setbacks, the emirate is plainly doing something right: revenues from its investments this year should reach...
...British army helicopters clattered anxiously overhead, some 50,000 Northern Irish Catholics lined the streets of Belfast last week for an emotional ceremony that was part funeral, part political demonstration. A lone piper led the way as thousands of mourners followed a Daimler hearse bearing a coffin draped in the green, white and orange flag of the Irish Republic. Beside the hearse strode seven hooded members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, dressed in mottled green combat jackets and berets...