Word: volkswagen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dusk as an El Al Boeing 720 taxied out for takeoff from Zurich's Kloten airport, carrying 17 passengers, a crew of eleven and 27.5 tons of highly inflammable fuel. Suddenly, from a cream-colored Volkswagen parked near a hangar, four young Arabs rushed forward. At a distance of 80 yards, two opened fire with automatic rifles; the others hurled a package of dynamite, which failed to explode, and incendiary grenades, which went off short of the huge Israeli airliner...
...equipment. For the second year in a row, Fiat outproduced Volkswagen (1,603,500 cars) and ranked as the biggest auto company outside the U.S. Shipments abroad of Fiats, by far Italy's biggest export item, rose in 1968 from 398,000 cars to 535,000, worth $496 million. Even in Germany, home of the Volkswagen, 1 out of 13 cars is a Fiat. Sales to the U.S. have been relatively modest because Agnelli has concentrated on exports to Europe and has only recently begun a drive to market a broader range of bigger cars in America. Still, Fiat...
...Volkswagen, manufactured in Sāo Paulo, has long been Brazil's most popular car, but the automaniacal middle class is already trading up. At this year's show, Volkswagen introduced a four-door 1600 model sedan that will sell for $3,733 v. $2,666 for "the beetle." Similarly, General Motors showed off the Opala, its first made-in-Brazil sedan, a cross between the U.S. Chevy Nova and the German Opel. Depending on the model, it will sell for $4,250 to $4.800-about twice as much as a similar car made in the U.S., where...
...fascinated him as a boy. Called "What's Inside," it featured a cross section of a city street. Children entered through a sewer pipe, hunched past a maze of utility lines, climbed out through a manhole and examined the topside, with its parking meters, trolley tracks and working Volkswagen. Planned as a six-month exhibit, "What's Inside" was so popular that it ran for five years...
...that such a firm will be necessary in the 1970s if the European auto industry is to weather American competition. He therefore let it be known that if he could not strike a bar gain with Citroën he would look elsewhere-perhaps toward West Germany's Volkswagen. Such a combine might so overwhelm France's entire auto industry that it would crumble within a few years. Not even Charles de Gaulle is stubborn enough to want that...