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...Nissan, 3,100,968; Volkswagen-Audi, 2,210,666; Renault, 1,810,365; Peugeot-Citroen-Talbot, 1,593,943; Fiat, 1,209,819; Toyo Kogyo (Mazda), 1,176,608; Mitsubishi, 1,094,793; Honda, 1,008,927; Chrysler, 1,002,464; Lada (U.S.S.R.), 830,000; Daimler-Benz, 712,315; Suzuki...
...1970s. The rear-wheel-drive Chevette, introduced in 1975, is obsolete and overdue for replacement. As a stopgap, GM has been planning to import 200,000 subcompacts made by Isuzu starting next year, and there are tentative plans to bring in up to 80,000 smaller minicars from Suzuki Motor Co. So far, the giant automaker has not announced any change in its intentions...
...officials pleaded with the U.S. International Trade Commission hi Washington for import protection against Japanese-made bikes. Since 1978, argued H-D Chairman Vaughn Beals, Harley has lost more than a third of the so-called big-bike market (engines of more than 700 cc displacement), chiefly to Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda...
...machine-style politics of the Liberal-Democrats has been a source of party strength over the years, but lately internecine squabbling has paralyzed the institution. Suzuki held on to power by saying, and doing, virtually nothing. Finally, when faced with such growing problems as a rising budget deficit, Western displeasure with Japanese trade surpluses and the need to prune a mushrooming government bureaucracy, Suzuki announced in October that he would resign as soon as a successor could be named...
...Liberal-Democratic leadership is seldom, if ever, a matter of personal popularity. Instead, victory requires the support of powerful backroom leaders who personally control significant factions in the party's parliamentary group. Nakasone's candidacy was supported by the two most prominent factional chieftains in the Diet: Suzuki and former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, 64, who retains his influence in the L.D.P. despite the fact that he faces a court verdict next year on charges related to the 1975 Lockheed bribery scandal...