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...then: BANG! Dazzling Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer) splays onto the hood of Ed's Toyota, cries, "Get me out of here!" and leads him into the night. Once the movie wakes up, it never lets up, in pace or plot invention. Seems Diana / has smuggled past Customs six priceless emeralds "from the scepter of an ancient Persian king" and concealed them (we won't say where) for delivery to one of those hotshot sheiks who in the past decade have turned parts of L.A. into a Little Araby. As for ordinary Ed, he will risk death, betrayal and another 24 hours...
Hyundai is nothing if not ambitious. Max Jamiesson, 51, a former Toyota official who is the new executive vice president of Hyundai Motor America, told participants at the convention of the National Automobile Dealers Assoc. in San Francisco that his goal is to sell 100,000 vehicles in the 1986 model year. That would be less than 1% of the total U.S. market of 10 million vehicles and 4% of all imports vs. about 18% for all Japanese makes. But it would be far more than the 288 cars that Toyota sold in America in 1958, its ) first full year...
...less than $7,000 and make a decent profit. GM imports some subcompact models for sale in the U.S. from Japan's Suzuki and Isuzu, and it has plans to bring in more from its South Korean partner, Daewoo. GM is also manufacturing small cars in a venture with Toyota in Fremont, Calif...
...government will offer half of NTT's shares for sale over a five-year period, and could eventually sell up to two-thirds of the stock. The firm will immediately become Japan's largest private employer, with 318,000 workers-six times the work force of Toyota...
...Japanese share of the compact-truck market slipped to 41.7% a year ago. Toyota and Nissan, two of the leading Japanese vehicle manufacturers, are third and fourth in the market. While Toyota exports all of its trucks from Japan, Nissan builds 8,000 a month at its new plant in Smyrna, Tenn. The two companies have only 9.5% of the American car business, but they control 38.7% of the light-truck market...