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When 19-year-old Michael J. Ackerley dropped out of high school two-years ago, he did not expect the search for a job to be so tough. The addition of a felony conviction to his record in December for stealing a Mercedes Benz convertible seemed to be the final...
(8 of 11) blatant knock-off of the $40,000 two-seat Mercedes-Benz 380 SL that Chrysler has code-named the SL and will sell for about half the price. He is wagering an enormous amount, $700 million, that he can rekindle buyer interest in vans (see box). Chrysler...
More models are coming from still other makers. This month West Germany's Porsche will sell its first convertible in the U.S. in 18 years. Price: $34,000. Mercedes has always offered elegant toplessness for the elite. Its 380 SL goes for $43,000.
Iacocca intends to follow the LeBaron this year with an other convertible, a Chrysler Town and Country, nicknamed the Woody, because it is patterned after postwar station wagons that were wood-paneled on the outside. The new car's wood is plastic - some critics say cheesy - and a comedown...
Grapenut Hill is just a half hour's walk from the center, and I got there pretty quickly. The sky had changed to its otherworldly glow of late afternoon in New England between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It makes you think winter vacation is coming up even though it's been...