Word: maseratis
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Steinberg and his partners made scant effort to hide their wealth. At restaurants they ordered $400 bottles of wine. At Steinberg's $400,000 home were parked a Maserati, a Lamborghini, a Ferrari and the inevitable Rolls-Royce. One of Steinberg's partners gave a Mercedes to a girl he barely knew...
MARRIED. Stirling Moss, 50, champion British racing driver; and Susie Paine, 27, an advertising executive; he for the third time, she for the first; in London. Moss, who won 194 races, including 14 world championship Grand Prix events, driving for Mercedes-Benz, Maserati and Lotus, retired after a near fatal crash in 1962 that left his vision blurred and slowed his reflexes. He returned to the track last month, this time in a British race for saloon (sedan) cars, but did not finish because his Audi 80 broke down...
...makers of these low-slung models report substantial backlogs, with customers on a waiting list of up to 20 months. Maserati could double its production rate of two cars a day and still not fulfill all its orders. This year Aston Martin will sell 320 models (vs. 287 in 1978) and increase production next June from six cars a week to seven...
...extinction. They will hardly be done in by soaring gas prices. A West German dentist earning more than $100,000 is unlikely to quibble over an extra 50c or so a gallon. And in fact the graceful sprinters with the impeccable pedigrees sip gas daintily, considering their performances: a Maserati Quattroporte gets 16 m.p.g...
...plants to manufacture cars that meet U.S. standards will add about 20% to the sticker price and cut deeply into profit margins. Lamborghini, which makes only eight to ten cars a month, has already written off the U.S. market rather than invest the money required to meet its specifications. Maserati, which sends half of its output to the U.S., is waiting to see if its product has passed a pollution test in California, a state with the most stringent environmental rules in the U.S. Maserati Managing Director Alessandro De Tomaso is confident that his car will be approved because...