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Upon docking in Manhattan on another leg of the honeymoon following a quasi-medieval wedding in Venice (TIME, Oct. 3), a Mexico City Volkswagen salesman, known better to the international set as empireless Prince Alfonso Maximilian Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 31, took a camera and delicately lifted the skirt hem of his voluptuous bride, Princess Virginia Ira Furstenberg, 15, to make a different kind of cheesecake shot for avid tabloid photographers...
...Kabinenroller, built by famed Airplane Designer Willy Messerschmitt, is the first of a new class of West German midget cars to go on sale in the U.S. The midgets, which make even the little Volkswagen look like a Cadillac by comparison, were born of German auto taxes, including a stiff purchase tax, an annual levy of about $3.42 per 100 cc. of engine displacement, plus compulsory liability insurance costing anywhere from $11.87 a year to $106.87, depending on horsepower. Thus, a Volkswagen's yearly tax and insurance cost is $76, about as much as the average West German earns...
...passenger cars produced in West Germany during the first seven months of this year, about one-fourth had engine displacements of less than 1,000 cc. (Volkswagen: 1,110). The Kabinenroller has been one of the most popular midgets (displacement...
...inflation-the result of overspending by both the people and the government, which is pushing a huge Tory investment program in roads, railroads and atomic power, while maintaining the expensive Socialist benefits of the Welfare State. Many British products are being priced out of the export market: German Volkswagen are pushing British light cars off U.S. and Swedish roads; Indian and Japanese textiles are flooding former British markets, not only throughout Asia, but in Lancashire itself...
...that time, Saturday Toiler Nordhoff may have some new evidence on which to base his own view. Last week Volkswagen announced that it has bought an assembly plant at New Brunswick, N.J., where Studebaker has turned out J47 turbojet engines. There, Volkswagen will assemble its rear-engine, four-cylinder cars for the U.S. market, where it already has 40% of all foreign-car sales (2,500 a month). In Jersey, Heinz Nordhoff is not likely to find many workers troubled by the emptiness and disconsolateness of a two-day weekend...