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After a briefing with the British Prime Minister on gulf troop deployments, the RAF wing commander visited a used-car showroom. As he browsed, secret documents and a laptop computer were stolen from his parked car. The papers were recovered, but the laptop is still missing...
...showroom, Honda cars are known for 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...
...thirsty customers needed their cars to be a little lighter and quicker than the sheriff's in order to remain in business. Bootleggers like the legendary Junior Johnson of Ronda, N.C., took to tearing out the radios, door handles, glass and backseats from "stock" cars (i.e., directly off showroom floors) and muscling up the engines in their own garages. Although Johnson had to take an enforced break from driving to serve a 10-month bootlegging sentence, his road skills won him 50 races on the NASCAR circuit. A cult developed around him and other cavalier drivers who flouted...
Even the rich and famous are not above looking for a bargain. Elysa Lazar publishes the S&B Report, a monthly compendium of up to 250 designer showroom sales where, on certain days, customers can buy overstock fashions from Donna Karan, Perry Ellis, Oscar de la Renta and other top designers for 50% off. Well-heeled subscribers include Dr. Joyce Brothers, Regis Philbin and Sally Jessy Raphael. After Joan Lunden mentioned Lazar's new mail-order catalog on Good Morning America two months ago, 80,000 viewers wrote to request the guide to discount suppliers of everything from wallpaper...
Theirs is a terrific comic duet, and writer Ken Friedman has backed them with a rich chorus of disapproval, including all the customers and salesmen also trapped in the showroom. Director Roger Donaldson, who has had his ups (No Way Out) and downs (Cocktail), is in his best voice here. It is the lower-depths snarl, angry and frustrated. It provides Cadillac Man with a steady bass line and makes it a rarity among recent films -- a comedy that is in touch with a recognizable reality...