Word: motor
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...keen on boosting exports to Japan, but Ronald Hoffman may have gone too far. Federal agents arrested the Beverly Hills executive on June 14 for illegally exporting software designed for the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. Five Japanese companies, including Nissan Motor and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, have acknowledged buying the software, called Contam. Estimated prices: $150,000 to $450,000. Hoffman, 51, allegedly obtained the technology, designed for identifying missiles by their exhaust plumes, while working as an engineer on a Star Wars project in Los Angeles. If convicted, he faces a $1 million fine and ten years...
While Japanese automakers have lagged behind their Western counterparts as investors in East European countries, Suzuki Motor formed a $132 million joint venture in January to build small cars in Hungary. The agreement, which was reached after five years of negotiation, calls for the company to produce 15,000 Suzuki Swifts a year starting...
...state's 9 cents-per-gal. gas tax, last increased in 1983, is one of the lowest in the country. (The national average is 15.8 cents.) No wonder then that California ranks 48th among the 50 states in per capita spending for highways -- with predictable results. In a motor-happy state, the highways are crumbling and inadequate...
...Mexicans reply that they keep only cars used by drug dealers and point out that the U.S. also confiscates vehicles used in smuggling. That is not quite good enough for San Diego Congressman Duncan Hunter, who wants an outside inspection of every auto in Mexico's federal police motor pool...
...Engineer of the Century by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers when, in 1981, he unveiled another of his pioneering vehicles. Carrying a single pilot, the Solar Challenger took off, climbed to 11,000 ft. and flew 163 miles from France to an R.A.F. base in England, its electric motor powered solely by the 16,128 solar cells mounted on its wings...