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...German carmaker NSU Motorenwerke last week displayed an ultra-utilitarian sedan that will, it hopes, sire a new generation of automobiles. Called RO 80, the new car has a strange engine under the hood, one that increasingly intrigues the automotive industry...
...Status Car." For all that interest, NSU's bosses-Director Gerd Stieler von Heydekampf and Deputy Board Chairman Viktor Frankenberger-are counting heavily on their own RO 80, a homely four-door sedan with sloping front and raised rear that looks more like the product of wind tunnels than of style-minded designers. Later this month, RO 80s will start rolling off the assembly line at NSU's Neckarsulm plant near Stuttgart at the rate of 50 a day. They will be priced at $3,537, just below the prestigious Mercedes 250 S model. "The German mentality demands...
...Hanoi time, an hour behind Saigon, and set their watches accordingly. The shells fell before the festivities had begun, while the reviewing stands were still comparatively empty?in short, an hour too soon. Timing has been ruthlessly better in other attacks. On March 30, 1965, a terrorist drove a sedan loaded with explosives up to the guard post of the American embassy in Saigon and killed 20, wounded 190, many of them Vietnamese passersby. Three months later, a V.C. bomb blasted the My Canh houseboat restaurant where Americans often ate, killing 43 people. A favorite terrorist gambit...
...arrives at the studio on a motorcycle toting a kiddie's lunch box filled with avocado sandwiches, which he munches during rehearsals to placate his ulcer. He is a compulsive kook, strolls into a nightclub and begins waiting on tables, tools around town in his 1940 Packard sedan wearing a chauffeur's hat while his date sits in the back seat...
...great name is no longer enough. The needs of car buyers have grown." The Minister is a kind of case in point. Despite a vigorous attack on his own weighty problems, Strauss still tips the scales at 205 lbs. and fits better into his own BMW four-door sedan than into a beetle...