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...Woody, because it is patterned after postwar station wagons that were wood-paneled on the outside. The new car's wood is plastic - some critics say cheesy - and a comedown from the snappy-looking LeBaron. For next year Iacocca is planning still for new convertible, a two-seater that will sell for $20,000 and look shamelessly like a Mercedes; he even refers to it as "the Mercedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deciding to Go Topless | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...bounds. Five dollars could buy a ticket to New York on the Eastern steam ship lines. Delicious food, incomparable service, and a dance or two entertained the leisured class on their voyage. Those most pressed for time could make the trip in an hour and 45 minutes in 14-seater, heated planes that flew daily from Boston to New York. Even Santa "pastured his reindeer and ordered a monoplane for his deliveries," according to Rollo airlines. They claimed that the merry old soul had "gone modern." A raccoon coat could provide an extra layer of warmth on those journeys...

Author: By Mary Humes and Rebecca J. Joseph, S | Title: Raccoon Coats to Atari Games: A Century's Worth of Shopping | 12/16/1982 | See Source »

...sales. Ford plans to unveil its first compact front-wheel-drive cars, the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz, along with a new softly rounded, highly aerodynamic Thunderbird. General Motors is readying two sports cars of its own for the market: a revamped Chevrolet Corvette, and a small new two-seater from Pontiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry Start for the 1983 Models | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...business use. Erie Homeowner Francis Banderet, a construction and farm equipment dealer, sees to his far-flung clients' needs by plane. Robert McDaniels, a retired airline pilot who lives in Naper Aero, near Chicago, owns four planes. One is a 1917 wooden-frame Jenny; another is a two-seater he uses to give flying lessons at a nearby airfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Home Is Where the Hangar Is | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...West Germany, is quickly pulling ahead. Having largely phased out its venerable Beetle profile of the 1950s and 1960s for the engineering improvements and angular lines of the bestselling Rabbit in the 1970s, the company is now at work on the aerodynamically sleek silhouette of a new subcompact four-seater design that looks more like a Gucci slipper than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wunderwagen: Volkswagenwerk of Wolfsburg, West Germany | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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