Word: seaters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Make way for the Swatchmobile, a sassy two-seater that looks like a cross between a Volkswagen Beetle and a Rambler. In fact, it is the product of an odd corporate marriage sealed last week between Mercedes-Benz, the maker of luxury cars, and Nicolas Hayek, the man who put almost 150 million Swatches on wrists all over the world. So far, the two companies have worked on separate prototypes, which they plan to merge into a single model produced by a joint company (Hayek's stake is 49%, Mercedes' 51%) for the 1997 market...
...inside our four-seater Cessna Skymaster is both hot and stale as pilot Eduardo Domaniewicz patrols the sea off Key West. The aquamarine water of the Straits of Florida, so beautiful at first, becomes monotonous after three hours of scanning. Cuba lies just 38 miles to the south, but the horizon here is flat and featureless. The only sound is the lulling drone of the Cessna's engines. In fact, it is so boring and so suffocating in the cabin that two of our spotters are nodding off. Then, abruptly, the radio comes alive: "Stand by for a surprise!" yells...
...shot down on Nov. 25, 1968. He died after he parachuted safely to the ground. But the F-4D is a two-seat aircraft, and Pentagon analysts noted one photo of Morrison's personal effects showed an extra pistol; this led them to confirm the death of his back-seater San D. Francisco. Intelligence analysts now expect that the Hanoi museum material already in hand may clear up 23 of the 135 so-called discrepancy cases, where the U.S. knows an individual survived a plane crash or was captured, but has not been able subsequently to account...
...desk job in the capital city of Port Stanley. When the call comes signaling that his ride is en route, Lee drives the short stretch to a grassy landing strip, arriving in time to make sure it is clear of wandering sheep. As the shiny red nine-seater air taxi appears over a rocky ridge, Lee gathers up his bag and surveys the rolling hills in the distance. "This is a good place. There is no danger, no crime," he says. "But the conflict brought changes. Once, we thought our life would go on forever...
...quality and comfort, if not raciness. But on the track, Honda's Formula One cars have consistently blown the doors off their rivals. Now Honda is taking its racing technology to the streets with a new mid-engine sports car called the Acura NSX. The $60,000 two-seater, which arrives at West Coast dealerships this week, is the most expensive Japanese car yet. The auto has been so eagerly anticipated that more than 1,500 of the first year's U.S. shipment of 3,000 cars are already spoken...