Word: volkswagen
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...that film are legendary-the paranoid swagger, the inept drug trips, the comicbook heroism. But the film also shared with other examples of naive art an undisciplined energy and a curious magnetism. Its minuscule production cost (under $500,000) and giant grosses (over $50 million) made it the Volkswagen of the American film...
...only hitch was that the guard, who claimed to have been offered a $43,300 payoff by the conspirators, had secretly informed the military police. When the conspirators parked the rented Volkswagen outside the prison walls at 3 a.m., three military Jeeps swooped down, and out piled a score of machine-gun-brandishing soldiers who arrested them. Lady Fleming, who had in the meantime gone for a drive in the country, was picked up at 5:40 a.m., when she returned home...
...automakers argue that the air cushions might be as dangerous as actual crashes. American Motors officials fear that the giant pillows might inflate unpredictably in the driver's face, perhaps because of defective sensors. Ernst Fiala, Volkswagen's worldwide research director, worries about changes in air pressure and the shock factor inside small cars after the bags suddenly expand. "When you're firing four large air bags, you can reasonably expect that the car will be a wreck," he warns. "The scheme is safety overkill." Moreover, Government tests show that when air bags explode into shape...
...intruders applied a medical stethoscope to the living-room floor; when they detected sounds below, they broke a hole in it. Next door, meanwhile, a Volkswagen van drew up and unloaded half a dozen more Tupamaros, who quickly commandeered the house and lugged in a dozen or so suitcases filled with clothing, arms, false papers and money...
...cars? Superpowered Detroit turnpike cruisers? Dazzling convertibles or cute little bugs? Forget it. For any self-respecting American kid these days, the hottest vehicle suddenly seems to be a 1964 Ford Econoline van, say, or a beat-up GMC or scruffy Dodge A100 or-for the hipper elements-a Volkswagen Microbus or panel truck suitably scrunched around the fenders. There is method to this madness for vans: in increasing numbers the chunky vehicles are serving not only as transportation but also as mobile homes for the nation's youth...