Word: sportier
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...also tested the limits of one of Porsche's sportier models--and its "lucky" drivers...
...concept was reworked to focus on the David-and-Goliath aspects of the competition. New gladiators with backgrounds as professional football players and Olympic competitors were hired. The costumes were redesigned for a sportier look. And, most important, both gladiators and contenders were directed to play for real. "It's now pure competition," says Horton, a former lineman with the Philadelphia Eagles and Boston Patriots who is the only one of the gladiators from the original pilot still with the show. The authenticity of the competition is driven home by the injuries among gladiators as well as contenders...
...until his repatriation in 1988 was president of GM Europe. The two executives would be likely to push GM toward faster, less centralized decision making. Domestic GM has a long way to go, but if it takes a cue from its European sibling, the company could become a much sportier machine...
...September. AMC is pinning its highest hopes, though, on a pair of models designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the noted Italian auto stylist, which will be built at the new Canadian plant. They are the Premier, an intermediate-size sedan that will reach showrooms in October, and a sportier coupe, code-named the X-59, which will appear a year later. The Premier and the X-59 have not yet been priced, but will compete against such cars as the Ford Taurus and the Nissan Maxima in the $11,000-to-$16,000 range. Unveiling the Premier at the Chicago Auto...
...away from regular Honda outlets. The Acura Legend, a sedan slightly bigger and more powerful than the Mercedes-Benz 190, sells in the U.S. for $19,000, around $10,000 less than the Mercedes, and has % been greeted with rave notices by U.S. auto reviewers. The Legend's smaller, sportier cousin, the Integra, is priced...