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Word: seaters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy's Fiat showed off a line of seven cars in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week. The star: Fiat's tiny bug-shaped Model 600 Standard, which is priced in the U.S. at $1,298. Fiat's other models range from a two-seater 90-m.p.h. sports convertible (U.S. price: $2,498) to a six-seater combination truck-station-wagon ($2,069). The company's U.S. sales goal is 30,000 in 1957 v. about 125 that trickled in last year. Fiat's Manhattan distributor claims to have 5,000 orders already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Foreign-Car Speedup | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Midget Auto. A three-wheeled, pne-seater auto, 67 in. long, 39 in. high, weighing 132 Ibs., is being manufactured by Egon Briitsak Fahrzeugbau of Stuttgart, Germany. With a plastic body, a 2.5-h.p. engine driving the front (single) wheel, and three speeds, the Briitsch-Mopetta hits a top speed of 24 m.p.h., averages 99 miles per gallon. The car is amphibious, has a paddle wheel attached to the front wheel for use when operating in water. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Lockheed already has the F-IO4 in full production, with the first operational squadron due for service sometime this year. It is also building a two-seater null version. Said Air Force Chief of Staff General Nathan F. Twining: "This is the most advanced plane of its type ever developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Starfighter | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Taxes and insurance on the Goggomobile, a $688 three-seater rolling off Isaria Maschinenfabrik's assembly lines at the rate of 70 a day, total "less than the price of four cigarettes" daily, according to Isar ia advertisements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Midgets | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...sugar cane, drowsy town plazas seared to a dry-season brown, the jet air base near Maracay, and scenic Lake Valencia, a shimmering turquoise in a chartreuse valley. But most of the time Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela, eyed a low, sleek, two-seater Mercedes-Benz sports car that rolled along with the cavalcade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Skipper of the Dreamboat | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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