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World automakers do not rank among big league players until they sell their cars in the U.S., the world's richest auto showroom. Last week South Korea announced its bid for a place in that market. Executives of Hyundai Motor America, a subsidiary of South Korea's largest industrial conglomerate (est. 1984 sales: $10.3 billion), said that they will begin selling cars in the U.S. this fall...
...with passenger cars, U.S. manufacturers are fighting strong competition from the Japanese. The first of their compact pickups landed on the docks at Long Beach, Calif., some 35 years ago, but the Datsun never made it to the showroom floor. As legend has it, a driver noticed it on the carrier truck, followed it to the dealer and bought the pickup on the spot. By 1978, every one of the 489,508 compact pickups sold in the U.S. was made in Japan. But Detroit has roared back. General Motors and Ford, which had been importing Japanese vehicles to sell under...
...most striking design shifts in modern automotive history, Ford Motor two years ago traded in its boxy styling for the rounded forms of its current new cars. The sleek redesign has been a hit in the showroom, and last week Ford named Donald Petersen, 58, who championed the new shapes, to succeed the retiring Philip Caldwell as chairman next Feb. 1. Executive Vice President Harold Poling, 59, will replace Petersen as president...
...spenders who plan to buy a West German luxury car this summer had better hurry to the showroom or they may be left clutching their cash. A six-week-long strike by West German metalworkers, who are pressing for a 35-hour week without a reduction in pay, has idled the country's auto industry. As a result, U.S. inventories of Mercedes-Benz and BMW models will probably run out some time in July. Once the strike is settled, it will take a month for new shipments of the cars to arrive...
...Dubois-Dumée spend a day buying the cerebral, sensual extravagances of Issey Miyake, the same general rules apply as when Kaplan cases Armani or when Judy Krull checks out Lagerfeld's surprisingly direct and swellegant new line, the first under his own name. In the showroom, armed with order forms, style books, color charts, the buyers, with occasional encouragement and sweet talk from the designers, start to act just like serious shoppers. They pull clothes off racks, hold them up, try them on. Armani's definitive long coats and shorter sexy skirts; his loose, liquid, wool...