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...Honda CRX, the prize for the lucky winner of a local radio station's sweepstakes...
...know whether or not I would have passed up the Honda if I had won--yeah, I put my name in the box like everyone else--but my conscience breathed a sigh of relief when the slick PR man crooned, "Peter Grossman, of Ithaca. New York, come on down...
...Excel is certain to intensify competition among makers of small cars. The rivals include Ford's Escort (base price: $6,052), Chrysler's Omni and Horizon ($6,209), the Toyota Tercel ($5,598), the Nissan Sentra ($5,649) and the Honda Civic ($5,649). Admits one Detroit executive: "The Excel will be a formidable competitor for everybody in the low end of the market...
Toyota, Japan's leading auto producer, is the fourth Japanese carmaker to begin building some of its autos in the U.S. Honda paved the way in November 1982, when it opened a plant in Marysville, Ohio. Nissan started manufacturing cars in Smyrna, Tenn., this year, and Mazda is scheduled to open a plant in Flat Rock, Mich., in 1987. By 1989 Japanese companies are expected to be producing some 1 million cars a year in the U.S. The four American carmakers will turn out 7.9 million autos this year...
...misfortune of being alive and kicking. A misfortune only because, in the tradition of felines and rock stars, Lou Reed must have nine lives. Nine distinct incarnations ranging from junkie to jogger, from wife-beating closet queen to affectionate husband, from Velvet Underground frontman to the man on the Honda scooter who won't settle for just walking. And he's had to watch his various lives fold and unfold in the public eye to varying degrees of interest. But worse than that, pardon the melodrama, probably hardly a day goes by for Lou Reed that he doesn't have...