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...regarded as Chrysler's first genuine sports car, with handling worthy of the designation. In aerodynamic design alone, Motor Trend magazine says, the car is "better than anything Chrysler has ever done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gee! The G24 | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...company is aiming the G24 at a less depressed segment of the car market: relatively affluent buyers who have a taste for speed and dash and might be customers for GM's Camaro or Firebird, or Toyota's Celica. In Motor Trend's tests, the G24 hit 60 m.p.h. in 8.22 sec., close to the industry's performance leader, Ford's 302 HO Mustang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gee! The G24 | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...explosion in a storehouse for firecrackers, which the Ixil tribesmen used to get the attention of gods to whom they offered sacrifices. Two boys were horribly burned. By the time Helen arrived on the scene, neighbors had already plastered the burns with a mixture of lime, wood ash and motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Missionary | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

...panel traced the troubles with the fan in Allen's suit to the seepage of moisture (probably from breath and perspiration) into a tiny control device. No larger than two pinheads, the sensor regulates the electrical pulses to the fan's motor. Although the investigators still have not found out why water should have penetrated the device's epoxy covering, they have made clear that its porosity should have been uncovered long before the $2.3 million suits ever went into orbit. There was, however, no doubt what went wrong with Lenoir's suit. Despite all efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Some Unsuitable Workmanship | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the sole surviving U.S.-born and -bred motorcycle maker, is feeling wobbly. Last week H-D officials pleaded with the U.S. International Trade Commission hi Washington for import protection against Japanese-made bikes. Since 1978, argued H-D Chairman Vaughn Beals, Harley has lost more than a third of the so-called big-bike market (engines of more than 700 cc displacement), chiefly to Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uneasy Rider | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

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