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...Common I saw the lights of police cars and tow trucks at a corner ahead and hurried to join the onlookers. There was a flattened Dodge Dart sitting in the middle of the road. A tow truck was trying to pull it apart from a shiny, twisted Volkswagen Beetle resting against the curb. One of those flashy low sports cars sat on the other curb, its fiberglass body shattered in pieces on the tar. A fourth car had already been hauled off--only a broken headlamp remained. The passing traffic beat an empty rhythm on the metal and glass rubbish...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Cambridge Night | 11/20/1976 | See Source »

...biggest stimulus to diesel sales in the U.S. could come from Volkswagen, the company that more than any other made frugal cars fashionable in the U.S. In what is being called a "second generation" of passenger-car diesels, VW claims to have solved most of the diesel's problems of weight and sluggishness. VW's first diesel, sold in Europe in the Golf model, accelerates to 50 m.p.h. in 11.5 sec., v. 10.5 sec. for the comparable gasoline-powered version (which is known in the U.S. as the Rabbit), and has a top speed of 87 m.p.h. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Diesel Dazzle | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...suffered an attack of angina, which he said "feels as though a Volkswagen has run you over on the chest," on September 30. "But the doctors said there was no damage, so I signed myself out," Alfred said...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: William Alfred To Leave Stillman Infirmary Today | 10/27/1976 | See Source »

Traveling along fraternity row...three frat men wrestling on a beer-soaked basement floor...a Harvard man discussing ICBMs and Mutually Assured Destruction with a Skidmore freshman...frat men playing ping-pong for beers while scores watched...three Harvard and two Smith students forced to sleep in a Volkswagen Rabbit...and of course an exuberant Harvard football manager waltzing through the streets of Hanover at 1 a.m. with a purloined...

Author: By Mike A. Calabrese and J.h. Yeager, S | Title: Harvard Havoc Reigns in Hanover | 10/19/1976 | See Source »

Imagine getting into a Volkswagen while wearing a Saint Laurent creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 30, 1976 | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

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