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Despite expectations of waning sales, Detroit has one source of comfort. Small foreign-made cars are losing their price advantage in the U.S. as the impact of two dollar devaluations and raging worldwide inflation drive up their costs. Last week Volkswagen of America raised the average price of Beetles a hefty $325, or 14%; other foreign car makers are certain to follow suit. That happens to fit in nicely with the pricing strategy of the U.S. automakers, who are posting substantial price increases on their import-battling small cars, while adding only marginally to the prices of slower-selling larger...
...their prisoners managed to escape in the confusion. But when the train stopped at Vienna, the others were hustled aboard a Volkswagen bus owned by the Austrian railroad. With the captured customs officer at the wheel, the bus rushed to Schwechat airport on the outskirts of the city. The Austrians were so anxious to avoid bloodshed that police cars, alerted to what had happened, escorted the bus to the airport instead of trying to stop...
...little fun, they spotted two homosexuals leaving the Naked Grape, a well-known gay bar. The youths roared to a stop, jumped out of their car and began to push the homosexuals around. Suddenly a brawny band, led by a man in a clerical collar, leaped from a gray Volkswagen bus and lit into them. "We didn't even ask questions," said the Rev. Ray Broshears, 38. "We just took out our pool cues and started flailing ass." The teen-agers fled into the night, only to return ten minutes later, begging for their car: "Look...
...author campaigned across West Germany (31,000 bouncy kilometers in a Volkswagen bus) and "talktalktalked" for the Social Democrats. "A mobile, regionally dispersed, almost intangible father," Grass scribbled a sort of notebook-diary that considers why a novelist finds himself bothering with politics, and tries to answer his children's ritualistic questions: "Where are you off to again? What do you do when you get there?" Grass's answer is a sort of bedtime story on politics, featuring as hero the snail: "It seldom wins, and then by the skin of its teeth. It crawls, it goes into...
...currencies (including Sweden's krona) has continued to rise against the dollar−and as foreign labor costs have continued to mount−the once huge gap between U.S. and other countries' wages has narrowed. Other foreign automakers are only a few steps behind Volvo. Last week Volkswagen officials acknowledged that they are studying the feasibility of a U.S. assembly plant, and big Japanese builders like Datsun and Mazda are also reported to be interested...