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Police closed off the entire capital to search for the killer. A police report said squad cars chased a Volkswagen sedan headed north...
...brand of Soviet chic (see box), Gorbachev made contact with France's working class. Accompanied by French Foreign Trade Minister Edith Cresson, he journeyed to a Parisian suburb for an hour-long tour of a highly roboticized Peugeot auto factory. The Soviet leader tried out the latest model sedan, then donned protective goggles to inspect the plant and chat with workers about wages and factory conditions. So determinedly upbeat was the visit that Soviet Ambassador to France Yuli Vorontsov jokingly told a Peugeot executive, "You're getting so much free publicity out of this, you really ought to give...
...three people. As they are chauffeured deep into the Cheshire countryside, the passengers quiz the driver about the car, watch the passing hedgerows or simply sink blissfully into the leathery smells. After 60 circuitous miles, they return to the building and take a lingering look as the $98,000 sedan collects three more of Rolls' 3,800 employees for the pleasure trip they are entitled to under company policy. "I knew I'd ride in a Rolls one day," says Jack Goodwin, 62, a gearbox builder at the firm since 1938, "but I assumed I'd be in a wooden...
...luxury auto market, Britain offers the sporty, two-door Rolls-Royce Corniche at $156,000 and the road-hugging Aston Martin Lagonda sedan at $150,000. Last week in Denver, Auto Dealer Jerry Morris unveiled his own very different vision of automotive high life, American-style. Equipped with a bar and Baccarat crystal, trimmed with teak and priced at $50,000, Morris' showpiece is a 19-ft.-long Jeep station wagon. The dealer bills it as the world's first stretch limousine with four-wheel drive. Morris' theory is that off-road travel should be comfortable. Said he: "People have...
...mascot, an island mutt named Butch. As a tropical rainstorm poured down on the Cuban-built Point Salines airport last week, the Royal Grenadian Police band bravely played The Star-Spangled Banner, and Grenadian Prime Minister Herbert Blaize presided over a truncated farewell ceremony from the back of his sedan...