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Your article on the Toyo Kogyo Co. [April 26] states that the Mazda GLC is the world's third bestselling model, behind the Toyota Corolla and the Volkswagen Rabbit. You have been misinformed. Ford's Escort is the bestselling car in the world. Estimates for 1981 show Ford Escort at 823,000, the VW Rabbit at 759,000 and the Toyota Corolla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1982 | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...m.p.g. from its improved Wankel engine, and the GLC. That compact is known as the Familia in Japan and the 323 in other parts of the world. Ford markets a version of its own, called the Laser, in 44 Asian countries. While the car looks suspiciously like a Volkswagen Rabbit, there is one important difference: the GLC sells for about $5,475, while a Rabbit costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comeback Kids | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Mazda's front-wheel-drive compact, known in the U.S. as the GLC (for Great Little Car), has become the world's third bestselling model after the Toyota Corolla and the Volkswagen Rabbit. Mazda's RX7, the only rotary engine vehicle that the company exports, is the second most popular foreign sports car in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comeback Kids | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Among Bok's desires for international Harvard is a "reverse Rhodes scholarship" that would bring foreign students to Harvard. Already, Volkswagen, the automobile manufacturer, pays the expenses of several German nationals to study at the Kennedy Schools for five years...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Tomorrow the World | 3/5/1982 | See Source »

...contrast, saw the commercial potential of the machine that could help families do their personal finance or small businesses control inventories, and he urged that they form a company to market the computer. The two raised $1,300 to open a makeshift production line by selling Jobs' Volkswagen Micro Bus and Wozniak's Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator. Jobs, recalling a pleasant summer that he spent working in the orchards of Oregon, christened the new computer Apple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Seeds of Success | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

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