Word: jaguar
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Mini Maid Services. In 1973 Homemaker Leone Ackerly, mother of three, wanted to buy a new auto. To earn the money, she hired herself out as a cleaning lady. She has since, as they say, cleaned up. Now 41, Ackerly drives a Jaguar XJ6 and oversees a maid-service empire, based in Marietta, Ga., with 900 employees at 96 franchises in 24 states. Annual revenues: more than $9 million. Mini Maid is about to launch franchises in Germany, Italy and Australia. The secret of Ackerly's success? Says she: "We do one thing one way for one price...
Alfa Romeo is in bad shape, having lost an estimated $170 million last year. Even so, Ford had wanted to use Alfa's products to compete in the European and U.S. markets for luxury sports cars now dominated by such rivals as Mercedes- Benz and Jaguar. But Fiat was eager to protect its No. 1 position in Italy by keeping Alfa out of Ford's hands...
...major break in the Commission case came on a rainy night in March 1983 when two agents of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force carried out a well-rehearsed planting of a tiny radio transmitter in a 1982 black Jaguar used by "Tony Ducks" Corallo. In a parking lot outside a restaurant in Huntington, N.Y., on Long Island, one agent carefully opened a door, pressing the switch that would otherwise turn on the interior lights. Another helped him spread a plastic sheath over the seats so that rain would not spot the upholstery. With a stopwatch at hand...
...sports car than the kind of Cadillac young, wealthy car buyers can remember their grandparents driving. But that is precisely what its creators at GM had hoped. Determined to shed the stodgy image that has caused the company to lose so many upscale U.S. buyers to Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar and other imported brands, Cadillac decided it needed a pinch of European flair. So the carmaker teamed up with the Italian design firm Pininfarina to create an entirely new model and help revitalize Cadillac's fallen prestige. Result: a nimble, sexy vehicle that Don Johnson of Miami Vice might be proud...
...where he was going in more ways than one: in status-conscious Washington, it was a not-so-subtle reminder of / his White House connections. Now Deaver has given up the status symbol of public power for one of private wealth. These days he rides in a chauffeur- driven Jaguar XJ6 equipped with a car phone that keeps him plugged in to some of the highest offices in the land...