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...toward trimness is reflected in the few totally new 1976 cars. One is GM's Chevette, a hatchback "sub-subcompact" that is being built in the U.S. to compete in the same price ($3,000 to $3,500) and mileage (roughly 38 m.p.g. on the highway) class as Volkswagen's Rabbit. Ford last week announced that it would rush a minicar entry of its own Into production in Europe in time to reach the U.S. market in 1977. Chrysler plans to enter the mini field by 1980 with a front-wheel drive model, probably based...
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...decades-longer than any other contemporary head of state. But when he was finally deposed in September 1974 by the military leaders of the "creeping coup," which had been enveloping Ethiopia for seven months, the tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) ruler was whisked away from his palace in a Volkswagen and imprisoned in a three-room mud hut. Only later was he moved to more comfortable quarters at the Grand Palace. It was there that the aged Lion, still caged, died in his sleep last week, apparently from the aftereffects of recent prostate surgery...
Moreover, as the dollar's value shrivels, the cost of foreign imports into the U.S. swells, contributing to American inflation. A fully equipped Volkswagen Rabbit, for instance, can now carry a price tag of nearly $4,000-as much as a medium-sized Ford Granada...
...posted restrictions on textile imports. Last week the British automobile industry, with protectionist action clearly in mind, formally asked the European Economic Community to investigate charges that Japanese cars are being "dumped" in Britain. In the U.S., the United Automobile Workers union is trying to document a suspicion that Volkswagen Rabbits are being dumped in America...