Word: maseratis
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...only U.S. automaker to find romance in Italy. That country has suddenly become Detroit's most abundant wellspring of style and mystique. Chrysler signed a deal in June to boost its stake in the Maserati sports-car company from 3.5% to 15.6%, and plans to bring out a jointly produced convertible priced in the $30,000 range by fall 1987. Ford, meanwhile, is negotiating to buy a majority share of sports-car maker Alfa Romeo...
...Chrysler Fifth Avenue. At the styling dome, six subordinates awaited him, two clutching clipboards and pencils. Iacocca had come to decide how he wants several new cars to look. One seductive prototype parked in the dome will be manufactured beginning in 1988 as a co-production of Chrysler and Maserati, the Italian high-performance carmaker. Iacocca stands in one place, arms folded, studying the maroon convertible as it rotates slowly on a turntable. "I like the chrome," he announces. An aide scribbles a note. Chrysler's Maserati makes a half-turn. "I want better-looking wheel covers than this...
...California investigators believe that Saxon's company may never have purchased all the gold that investors paid for, and that Saxon diverted much of his clients' money to his personal use. He owned another home in Venice, a $59,000 Maserati, a Porsche and a Mercedes. He had made a $95,000 deposit on a Learjet. He apparently had lost $1 million in an attempt to buy the Commercial Bank of California in West Hollywood and save it from bankruptcy. The bank failed last May, and its demise has led to numerous disputes and even lawsuits among...
...spoke to state visitors of his interest in splashy automobiles. Taking the hint, they plied him with examples of the motorized best that Western technology could offer. Brezhnev was a notoriously bad driver; yet at one time his stable included a Rolls-Royce, a Citroën-Maserati and a Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC. And Nixon remembers giving a Lincoln Continental to Brezhnev at Camp David. Brezhnev's eyes shone when he saw the car. Without warning, he waved Nixon into the front seat, took the wheel and roared off as Secret Service men looked on aghast...
...lured away by the famed car designer Nuccio Bertone. In six years with Bertone, he created 20 cars, from economy-model Simcas and Mazdas to expensive Ferraris and Aston Martins. At 27, Giugiaro graduated to Ghia, where he designed renowned sports cars for Maserati and De Tomaso. At 30, he opened his own firm. Married, the father of two children, Giugiaro resides in a rambling ranch-style house outside Turin that he planned with an architect. The interior is decorated with Oriental art and Giugiaro's own paintings. The designer he admires most is Bruno Sacco, who styles...