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...night before Christmas, all through the William Richardson house in Ross, Calif., there will be quite a stir. Besides trimming the tree and wrapping presents, the Richardsons will be waxing their skis, dusting off their boots and packing the Volkswagen camper. Richardson, 36, business manager of a private school near San Francisco, has taken his wife and four children to the Sierras, five hours away, every winter for the past six years. As usual, the preparations began in October, when the Richardsons attended a "ski swap" and exchanged with others the gear that the children had outgrown. The Richardsons...
...this trend is helping U.S. automakers to compete against imports. Overall, sales of imported cars have held about even in numbers, but their share of the U.S. market has slipped to 14.8% this year from 15.4% in 1971. Imports that offer basic transportation and not much else are down: Volkswagen sales are off 14% this year, and Toyota volume has declined 6%. Foreign-made cars that also offer a touch of luxury are selling much better. The great success story among the imports is the Capri, which has a 53% sales gain and now accounts for one in every...
...brokering attempts of the former Labor government. The company, which is barely profitable, still offers too many models, and cannot produce enough of them to meet rising demand. British Leyland's market share is declining in the face of imports. Problems also afflict Germany's combine of Volkswagen and Audi NSU Auto Union. The basic trouble has been the declining popularity of the Beetle-in the first ten months of this year sales of Volkswagens in the U.S. have fallen to 398,000, compared with 463,000 in the equivalent period last year, and VW sales have been...
Credo of Ignorance. The voter-initiative movement actually began in 1965, when Novelist Günter Grass traveled around the country drumming up votes for Brandt, who was then opposition leader. This year Grass again took to the roads in a Volkswagen bus, speaking to as many as four or five rallies a day, and often attracting bigger crowds than the party candidates. Brandt also had the notable support of Nobel-prize-winning Novelist Heinrich Böll and Film Stars Curt Jurgens and Romy Schneider, while the Free Democrats were endorsed by Swiss Playwright Rolf Hochhuth and Actor Hardy...
...Chicago traffic light last week, a motorist glanced at the car alongside and gasped to a friend: "Hey, the rear end of that Rolls is a Volkswagen!" Well, almost. What the Chicagoan saw -and what more and more drivers and pedestrians across the U.S. are encountering-is a VW equipped with a fiberglass hood that bears a startling resemblance to the elegant Rolls-Royce front. It is the latest-and most eye-catching -manifestation of the doll-up-the-Bug fad that has produced a dizzying variety of conversions over the years since the Beetles first appeared...