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...assembly plant in Windsor, Ont., across the river from Detroit, operating on two shifts with overtime until mid-July. The front-wheel-drive minivans combine efficient use of interior space, with room for as many as seven passengers, and easy handling. Chrysler's models, named Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, are 16.7 in. lower and 21 in. shorter than standard vans like the Dodge Ram Wagon. The smaller size and improved aerodynamics created by the minivan's lower profile pay off in fuel economy. The new models get 37 m.p.g. on the highway, compared with 18 m.p.g...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Maxirush to Chrysler's Minivans | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...North Carolina, a movie crew builds an entire replica of an elaborate 250-year-old Southern mansion-and proceeds to burn it to the ground. Bands of talent scouts comb through used-car lots from Montana to Kentucky in search of their newest star-to-be: a 1958 Plymouth Fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Giving Hollywood the Chills | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...That was axiomatic." Directed by John Carpenter (Halloween), the film eliminates the book's more lurid excesses, stripping it down to a tense tale of a dorky teen-ager whose 20-year-old Plymouth has an evil will of its own. The gleaming heap was actually played by 24 different vehicles, only three of which were still running by the end of the fender-bending filming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Giving Hollywood the Chills | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...Christine, who has the body of a '58 Plymouth Fury but the mind of a Victorian murderess. At birth, on the Chrysler assembly line, she mysteriously killed a mechanic who dared to drop cigar ash on her upholstery. (Alfred Hitchcock once tried, unsuccessfully, to work a scene like this into a movie; now the trick has been solved.) Two decades later, Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon), nerd of high school nerds, owns Christine-and is possessed by her. In a trice this four-eyed Faust is transformed into a cool dude with clear skin, wrap-around shades, slick black hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Season's Bleedings in Tinseltown | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

After dropping its season opener to a strong Boston University squad and pinning down its first win over Plymouth State just last week, the weekend tournament proved the first important test of the Harvard campaign. But after the seventh-place finish, team members explained that it will take time to gain match experience before it can duplicate such efforts as last year's third place finish in the Coast Guard tourney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen Take Seventh Place At Coast Guard Tournament | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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