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Those ever inventive Japanese automakers have come up with another innovation on their cars: back wheels that turn right and left, just like front wheels. Four-wheel steering, or 4WS, first appeared in Japan two years ago on Nissan's high-performance Skyline autos. Now an advanced version of 4WS is being offered to Japanese car buyers, by Honda on its latest Prelude two-door and by Mazda on its luxury Capella...
...luxury auto market, Britain offers the sporty, two-door Rolls-Royce Corniche at $156,000 and the road-hugging Aston Martin Lagonda sedan at $150,000. Last week in Denver, Auto Dealer Jerry Morris unveiled his own very different vision of automotive high life, American-style. Equipped with a bar and Baccarat crystal, trimmed with teak and priced at $50,000, Morris' showpiece is a 19-ft.-long Jeep station wagon. The dealer bills it as the world's first stretch limousine with four-wheel drive. Morris' theory is that off-road travel should be comfortable. Said he: "People have...
...Hanon could not escape blame for a number of recent strategic errors. Renault's new Super-5 turned out to be too expensive ($4,095) for a two-door subcompact and looked too much like the old R-5. Early sales have run about 25% below projections. Conversely, demand for the new top-of-the-line R-25 has far outstripped production levels. Concedes a French government official: "In the all-out war that the auto industry has become, such errors are fatal...
...little more than two years, with cars rolling off the assembly line and into showrooms by the fall of 1987. Says an impatient Smith: "I don't like to wait long for anything." The effort could create as many as 20,000 jobs and turn out 400,000 to 500,000 cars annually. That would make it bigger than AMC, the fourth largest domestic producer. Says Sanchez: "I would like to be Chrysler's size as soon as possible." The car will initially come in two models, a four-door sedan and two-door coupe. Other models will come later...
...hopes for a sales surge have been dashed against the rocks of high sticker prices and staggering interest rates. Only five years ago, $5,000 would have bought an option-packed Oldsmobile or Buick station wagon. Today, that amount is barely enough to pay for a stripped-down two-door Chevette. The same Buick wagon would cost nearly $11,000. The Big Three have been forced to hike the price of their fuel-efficient models mostly to pay for the $80 billion that they are spending to design and produce them. But Detroit may have pushed prices...