Word: volkswagen
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...built in the U.S. Dressed up with carpeting, radio and white walls, they will sell at a base cost of $3,706 (tax and title extra). The price, combined with an overall mileage rating of 30 m.p.g., will certainly help Chrysler compete with imports like the stripped-down Volkswagen Rabbit, which has just gone up to $4,030. With its share of the market at just 12%, the lowest since the early '60s, Chrysler is gambling $350 million on the new models. First-year projections are for sales...
...stringent fuel-economy standards. But it did scrape up the money to bring out a new '78 model, the Concord. It is a luxury compact that, with options, sells for as much as $5,200?roughly comparable to the price of the fast-selling subcompacts, Honda's Accord and Volkswagen's Rabbit. Meyers believes AMC must now focus its sales push on the Concord to the maximum. He told TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold a bit hyperbolically: "Concord is a runaway success; we will make 100,000. In the past we got drunk on success and started chasing something else...
...Schleyer's auto. As three of the bodyguards jumped out, they and Schleyer's chauffeur were mowed down by at least 300 machine-gun bullets, fired by about half a dozen terrorists. His ambushed guards sprawled dead in pools of blood, Schleyer was dragged into a white Volkswagen Kombi bus and whisked away...
...models undersells its American rivals by anywhere from 15% to 20% or more. The Soviet tractors, made in plants in Minsk, Kharkov, Lipetsk, Vladimir and Kirov, are less plushly fitted out than American makes, but they also are durable and more economical to run. Says Chambers: "We have the Volkswagen philosophy around here. Our tractors may not have all the bells and whistles of the latest models from the U.S., but they do the work...
Other witnesses claim they saw a gunman jump into a mustard-colored small car and speed away after the seventh assault. A yellow Volkswagen was seen near the site of last week's attack No. 8. Yet more than 25,000 yellow Volkswagens are registered in New York State, and police have little confidence that state computers can narrow the number of owners who also roughly fit the killer's age range and physical description. The job of tracing ownership of the 28,000 Bulldog revolvers made by Charter Arms Corp. of Stratford, Conn., over the past five...