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Small, quiet American towns have become popular havens for Japanese manufacturers. This week Toyota Motor is expected to join the crowd of companies building plants in small towns. Toyota will announce plans to spend more than $500 million to construct a plant in Georgetown, Ky., a bucolic community twelve miles north of Lexington in the gently rolling hills of Scott County. When it opens in 1988, the factory will produce 200,000 midsize cars annually and employ between 2,000 and 3,000 workers...
...Carney, the commanding officer of the Cambridge tactical patrol force, attributed much of the decrease in crime to neighborhood crime watches and to increasingly stringent enforcement of motor vehicle codes...
Automobile dealers have traditionally been a loyal lot, sticking by their carmaker through ups and downs. If a new-car dealer sold Ford Motor Co. products, buyers had to shop elsewhere for a General Motors car. But after the auto recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when some 5,000 dealers closed their doors, the survivors tried to reduce their dependence on a single company by carrying a host of different cars. Today so-called megadealers sell many makes, sometimes out of one-stop auto supermarkets, where customers can buy either a Mercedes-Benz or a Jeep. Other...
Variety can be a good thing, but unfortunately, on Who's Zoomin' it feels calculated. The opening cut, the bleach-brained "Freeway of Love," explores adolescent sexuality with all the subtlety of a rubber hygiene implement. And it hardly requires a degree from the Motor City School of Imagery to figure out what Franklin means when she refers to her "pink Cadillac": the phrase does for Springsteen's infamous auto what Sheena's "sugar walls" did for the dextrose concession...
...legal troubles were far from over. A federal grand jury in Detroit last week indicted the once and possibly future automaker on new charges: mail and wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen money, and income tax evasion. The accusations stem from his handling of the finances of DeLorean Motor Co., which went bankrupt in 1982. Investigators charge that DeLorean, 60, bilked his backers out of $8.9 million...