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Japanese-made autos currently command 10.3% of sales in West Germany, almost double the level of just one year ago. Because of lower labor costs, more efficient production and currency differences, a Toyota now sells in West Germany for up to 20% less than a Volkswagen. A recent cover on the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel showed a yellow car with slanted eyes for headlights and buck teeth projecting over the bumper. Since West Germany ships 27% of its national production of goods abroad, the Bonn government thinks that it cannot impose import restrictions on Japanese cars without risking a damaging...
Alcomobile sales in Brazil took off. Says Mario Garnero, president of Brazil's National Automobile Industry Association: "We cannot produce enough alcohol vehicles for the public demand." Volkswagen, Brazil's largest automaker, increased its output of alcohol-consuming cars from 5,000 in July to 26,000 in November. Only one of every five cars coming off the Volkswagen assembly line is now gasoline-powered. Drivers unable to buy new alcohol-consuming cars have besieged mechanics, who, for about $900, will retool a gasoline engine to burn alcohol...
...Volkswagen's Rabbit faces tough com petition from new American subcompacts like the Ford Escort, and sales of the U.S.-made Rabbit dropped 26% in November...
...sale, 4 million people visited Ford showrooms. Over the next two years, the company built 1.28 million Mustangs. Young people snapped them up because they looked racy, yet cost as little as $2,368. Older folks bought them as second cars that had much more pizazz than the Volkswagen Beetle. Whooped a rejuvenated Texas bachelor of 44 in a letter to Ford: "Man, this pony is the greatest. A widow with 7,000 acres came 60 miles so I could take her riding in it. I thought the jig was up for me. Thank you, thank you, thank...
...Plaque Invader." The cape outfit is only one of twelve costumes he dons to amuse young patients. At Christmas he may be dressed as Santa Claus, and around July 4 as Uncle Sam. Schmidt drives to and from work in a vehicle that he calls a "Plaquemobile," a white Volkswagen topped by a king-size Styrofoam molar...