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...company is aiming the G24 at a less depressed segment of the car market: relatively affluent buyers who have a taste for speed and dash and might be customers for GM's Camaro or Firebird, or Toyota's Celica. In Motor Trend's tests, the G24 hit 60 m.p.h. in 8.22 sec., close to the industry's performance leader, Ford's 302 HO Mustang...
...Nets' team mascot, gave her an oaf-handed shake that she would probably like to forget. Navratilova could afford a forgiving smile though: last week she erased any doubts (held by Chris Evert Lloyd) about who is the top-ranked player in women's tennis. Winning the Toyota championship in New Jersey, Navratilova defeated Lloyd 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, for the $75,000 purse, season earnings of $1,461,055 and a record for the year of 90 wins in 93 singles matches. "She's No. 1, I concede," said Lloyd. "But not next year...
...require more "domestic content" in foreign cars sold in the U.S., as much as 90% American parts and labor in models recording 900,000 or more U.S. sales a year. The scheme could raise prices as much as $3,000 a car on makes such as Datsun and Toyota, and probably ignite a trade war that would wipe out many more jobs in American export industries than it would save in U.S. auto factories. The bill will probably pass the House but will be deservedly ignored in the Senate...
...boom years, those cars would have been new. Now only an occasional '82 Buick Regal or Chrysler Le Baron gleams hopefully among older Coupe de Villes, Torinos and Caprice Classics. A Thunderbird stands in ruinous decay next to the embarrassing glint of a new Toyota. An ancient Ford station wagon, held together by spit and masking tape, boasts a bumper sticker that says: THUMBS UP FOR MICHIGAN...
...fuel-efficient small cars, the market sector in which foreign competitors are strongest. In the last two years, Ford has sold 600,000 subcompact Escorts, partly by holding prices so low that sales have barely covered costs. To stay competitive, General Motors is trying to reach an agreement with Toyota Motor Co. of Japan, in which the companies will jointly build small cars at an assembly plant in Fremont, Calif., that GM closed down early this year...