Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plate and wound up 1977 with about 10% of the market, its lowest share since the early '60s. But the company has high hopes for its Omni compact, which made its debut last week. At a list of $3,706, the Omni is Detroit's first front-wheel-drive car with a transverse engine, and has earned Motor Trend magazine's "car of the year" award, which is usually a boost for sales...
...when he heard about it. "After that you'll need a tin cup and a white cane." In his newest film, The Gauntlet, Eastwood races by car, motorcycle, freight train and bus to bring a witness against the Mob to the trial on time. But only at the wheel, Witteman found, does the otherwise quiet and domestic Eastwood, who does not even bother with standard Hollywood equipment such as a pressagent, live up to his screen image. After a stint in the passenger's seat of Eastwood's Ferrari Boxer, tooling down those twisty Monterey Peninsula roads...
...warning of this excursion and had to scramble to their cars. Sadat ushered Begin into the front seat of a Cadillac and asked Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan to climb into the back. To everyone's surprise, Sadat got behind the steering wheel...
...bureaucracy. So is his cop in The Gauntlet, Phoenix lawman also on an extradition job. As for Reynolds, his Southern drawl is not all that different from a Western one; both are the accents of the Sunbelt frontier. He too is usually a loner, as isolated behind the steering wheel of truck or sports car as any cowboy astride his horse?and just as free to change course...
...autos are the first popular-price front-wheel-drive cars to be built in the U.S. Dressed up with carpeting, radio and white walls, they will sell at a base cost of $3,706 (tax and title extra). The price, combined with an overall mileage rating of 30 m.p.g., will certainly help Chrysler compete with imports like the stripped-down Volkswagen Rabbit, which has just gone up to $4,030. With its share of the market at just 12%, the lowest since the early '60s, Chrysler is gambling $350 million on the new models. First-year projections...