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...machine-tool industries that it raise tariffs or slow the pace of imports, it last month increased, from 4.4% to 49.4%, the duty on large Japanese motorcycles, which have captured 85% of the U.S. market. That action came after a plea for help from the Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the lone survivor of 143 companies that once made motorcycles in the U.S. The Administration will soon face a new test of its free-trade philosophy. Last week the International Trade Commission unanimously recommended that the U.S. set quotas limiting the import of some steel products for three years...
Since 1978 the cost of the least expensive Rolls had surged from $55,900 to $111,000. Rolls-Royce sales in the U.S. slumped last year to 908, down from 1,158 in 1981. Says Charles Bamberger, vice president of Manhattan's Carriage House Motor Cars, a Rolls-Royce dealership: "Even to satisfy their egos, many people were not quite willing to go into six figures...
Auto manufacturers have not been enthusiastic about lemon laws, which are now under consideration in 35 state legislatures. "We already have adequate safeguards for the consumer," said a Ford Motor Company spokesman in New York, adding that Ford planned to establish a customer appeals board in Massachusetts this July...
...mysterious circumstances. If he had been set up, the rented car might have also been fixed so that Nut would have been left stranded on the deserted road at the mercy of a killer masquerading as a helpful passerby. It was equally possible that Nut might have left the motor running while he jumped out of his car to make a quick, and fatal, rendezvous...
...Reagan move benefited exactly one U.S. firm: Milwaukee's Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Harley, perhaps best known for its big-engine "hogs," is the sole remaining U.S. manufacturer of the two-wheeled machines that have long been synonymous with American rebelliousness, restless individualism and the freedom of the endless highway...