Word: volkswagen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, money for the awards came from Ford and Volkswagen Foundation grants as well as a few smaller donations solicited from private individuals. This year the foundation money ran out, and the center was unable to replace...
...held down the prices of Japanese goods in America. Yet Japanese automakers argue that the major reason for their success is that the U.S. car companies failed to anticipate and exploit the swing to gas-saving small models. That failure certainly contributed to the U.S. success of Volkswagen, which started producing Rabbits at a Pennsylvania plant in 1978, and has experienced such high demand that would-be buyers sometimes have had to wait months for delivery. The company now plans to expand its U.S. operations...
...more fuel-efficient offerings that at one point buyers of General Motors' new X cars had to wait four to six months for delivery, and Chrysler Corp.'s popular Dodge Omnis and Plymouth Horizons were being sold before they reached the showrooms. The order backlog for Volkswagen's Pennsylvania-built diesel Rabbit remains long. But nowhere is the rush to gas sippers more evident than among the imports. While the overall sales of the U.S. auto firms have plunged, foreign makes are booming-so much so that as a group they have moved ahead of Ford...