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...prices between $3,500 and $4,000. Now a Canadian firm has raised the specter of a noisy Hovercraft in every garage. Ottawa's MHV Ltd. will soon begin to mass-produce two-passenger models that ski along as fast as 60 m.p.h. and cost less than a Volkswagen...
There are the big demonstrations, when the assistant professors pack the wife in the DR dress and the little blond kids and the collie into the Volkswagen and take off for Washington. They stay there a day or so and come back with blue buttons, which the wife wears for the next few weeks, and they tell you what a great FEEEEEELING it was to be with all those people who were so dedicated in their desire and actually very clean...
...half, while the West German share has shrunk to 6%-and even that 6% is being threatened. Japanese firms, having nearly taken over the U.S. market for foreign-made radios, TV sets and tape recorders, are beginning to challenge the traditional German dominance in heavy electrical machinery as well. Volkswagen remains the most popular imported car in the U.S., but its sales through November slipped 5% below the 1968 period. One reason: phenomenal sales gains of 80% for Japanese-made Toyotas and of 52% for Datsuns...
...TRIP DOWN. We left not long after midnight Thursday. Luck was with us: we had a Volkswagen bus to get us there, and a house in Georgetown to hold us. But all was not pleasant. Outside, a cold rain fell; and inside, with ten people and luggage, we could hardly move...
...shirt again, but feeling more confident. I yelled "Hello !" at passing cars instead of "Help !" A young couple in a Volkswagen pulled to the side of the road. But as I approached, the boy in the driver's seat started shouting at me: "You fucker! What the hell is the idea of acting like there's some kind of big emergency when all you want is a ride? I ought to kill...