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...down the line David Kravitz, faculty adviser to the Penn State team, outlines the virtues of a modified 1975 Honda CVCC that students have converted into a diesel. The rival University of Pennsylvania crew has taken a Rabbit diesel, added a turbocharger to burn fuel more efficiently and stuck it in an elongated Honda chassis designed to seat six passengers. Says a team member: "We call it aDachshonda." The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, team has put a two-cylinder, 25-h.p. Onan industrial engine (usually used to power an electric generator) into a British Austin Mini, added an electronic microprocessor...
...marine products division, which makes outboard motors and boats, and its 15% investment in France's Peugeot could well go on the block. The company may also sell one or more of its U.S. engine or transmission plants to a major importer like Volkswagen or Japan's Honda and work out a deal for Chrysler to buy back some of the production. In sum, the company will have to accept a reduced role in the auto market...
Since that year, when it became the first foreign automaker ever to produce cars in the U.S., Volkswagen has been winning back part of the ground it lost in the mid-1970s to the Japanese trio of Toyota, Datsun and Honda. While Volkswagen's sales rose 13% worldwide dur ing this year's first half, they spurted ahead 41% in the U.S., where the company is now the fourth largest seller of foreign cars, with 3.4% of the market. Volkswagen's goal is a 5% share, and it could easily sell more cars...
...year after Atlantic's purchase of Honda Oil and Gas for $37 million, Anderson's assorted enterprises grossed $20 million per year, and Anderson owned 1.35 million acres in New Mexico and Texas...
Anderson started in the oil business in 1941, when he bought a small refinery in New Mexico using $50,000 of borrowed capital. By 1962 Anderson was chairman of the executive committee and the largest Atlantic stockholder following Atlantic's merger with Anderson-owned Honda...