Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unveiled on celluloid last year in the James Bond flick Goldeneye. It's the first time a prop may have been as fetching as the star. BMW is adding a $35,900 six-cylinder model to give some American-style muscle to the pretty four-cylinder job now available...
...Jaguar XK8. Undoubtedly the queen of the pack, the XK8 is a sumptuous work of art whose engine is the first V-8 ever produced by Jaguar and only the fourth engine in its history. The price is for royal bloods too at $69,900 for the convertible model. It is the only one of the new models to offer a backseat--though just big enough to cart home the groceries in leather. It's the British company's first sports car since the showpiece--and mechanically damned--XKE ended production 22 years...
...five points range from allowing consumers to disconnect air bags to requiring that a new generation of smart bags be phased in beginning with the 1999 model year. Martinez says the agency has been logging up to 500 phone calls a day from worried drivers and passengers who want to shut off or disable the safety devices. "When we take the time to explain how to use them properly," he says, "the vast majority [of callers] regain their comfort with air bags." However, the recent spate of publicity has taken its toll on public confidence. Declared a bystander outside...
...same time, carmakers enthusiastically endorsed the proposal to power down air bags, which reflected industry recommendations. Vines noted that Chrysler is already developing slower-speed air bags and expects to have them ready for the 1998 model year. "Every automaker in the world has come out in favor of depowering air bags," he says...
...live-in companion for several years), and one look at that distinctive Fosse style--bodies that slither and strut, every hunched shoulder or cocked head a seductive come-on--is a reminder of a whole lost vocabulary of Broadway dance. John Kander and Fred Ebb's score is a model of its craft. No detachable love ballads here, just a stream of tuneful, witty numbers that make their point, engage the ear and evoke an era without sounding like mere pastiche...