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Eyebrows went up when he accepted a $100,000 Ferrari Testarossa from Italian businessmen, then balked at suggestions that the gift was improper. Bowing to public pressure, Menem has auctioned off the red roadster and donated the proceeds to charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: The Unsinkable Carlos Menem | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Chrysler has tantalized car buffs for more than a year with glimpses of a muscular two-seater called the Viper. The roadster won rave reviews at U.S. auto shows, but Chrysler coyly refused to say whether the Viper would ever become a production car. The fan dance ended last Friday when Chairman Lee Iacocca said the company will build the car, but only about 500 annually. Powered by a 400-h.p., ten-cylinder engine, the Viper will be built for speed and handling. Chrysler insiders claim that the car will be able to accelerate like a rocket sled, zooming from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: A Viper On the Loose | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

When it rolls off the assembly line in Bowling Green, Ky., the ZR1 will become the first $50,000 production car built entirely in the U.S. GM is not saying much about its new roadster, but Car and Driver magazine claims the ZR1 will hit 190 m.p.h., which would put it in a class with the best European performers. The current top-of-the-line Corvette reaches only 159 m.p.h. and costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Chevy with a Heavy Sticker | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...then again, the Senate giveth, and the Senate taketh away. For all I know, they might throw the metaphorical roadster of highway safety back into fourth gear and drive off into the sunset of restrictive legislation. Maybe next week they'd raise the drinking age to 31 and require every occupant of a car to be strapped to an inflated air bag with 20-lb. test fishing line. I decided to withhold judgement until I could talk to an expert...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Who Cares Anyway? | 10/1/1986 | See Source »

...pass for a Paris mansion, a basket is overturned, and the stage is suddenly bestrewn with red apples, which reappear throughout the show as tokens of temptation or insignia of passion. At the end, Tartuffe arrives to claim Orgon's fortune in a 1930s gangster-style roadster that literally bursts through the back wall of the set. His face is scarred; his henchmen wear fedoras; his manservant (Peter Francis-James), who in Pintilie's most inspired invention turns out to have been spying for the King all along, guns him down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Schooling in Surveillance | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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