Word: volkswagens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Volkswagen's sprawling headquarters in Wolfsburg, Chairman Toni Schmücker and his top aides are pondering a major question: Should the West German automaker build a second plant in the U.S.? A final decision is expected by year's end, and the early signs point toward a definite ja. A team of Volkswagen experts is already studying possible sites; the new plant would be an assembly operation that would put together the popular, front-wheel drive Rabbits and would probably be on the West Coast...
...University of Puget Sound, young women who superficially resembled one another (long brown or blond hair, parted in the middle) began to disappear. Only the skeletons of some were found. Police had one small bit of evidence to go on: a young man named Ted, who drove a Volkswagen "Beetle," often showed up shortly before the women vanished...
Bundy owned a Volkswagen, and he took it with him when he transferred in 1974 to the University of Utah law school. The Washington killings stopped, and a similar series soon began in Utah. But the police had little to connect Bundy with any of them until the summer of 1975, when he was arrested and later charged with kidnaping Carol DaRonch, 17, from a shopping center in the Salt Lake City area. Bundy was convicted and sentenced to one to 15 years in prison...
...them during the middle ten days of June. At Chrysler, sales of Dodge Aspens are down 30% for the year. The company's hottest autos are the subcompact Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon (up 55%). Yet production of these models is limited because their engines are supplied by Volkswagen, and the number is fixed at 300,000 for the year...
...takeover could be highly beneficial for Chrysler, which is struggling under a $50.6 million short-term debt. The company urgently needs infusions of fresh capital to modernize old plants and increase its output of small gas-sipping models. But a Chrysler deal would make little sense for Volkswagen, which has just regained its old momentum after a long period of drift, during which Japanese automakers zipped past it in many major markets. Detroit executives point out that Volkswagen, which is the most firmly established foreign automaker in the U.S., does not need Chrysler's dealer network or antiquated plants...