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Experts differ on four-wheel steering's potential. Jerry Rivard, vice president of Bendix Electronics, a major auto supplier, calls it a "dramatic jump in technology" and predicts that it will be standard equipment on cars of the future. Ron Glantz, an auto analyst at Montgomery Securities, feels otherwise. "Other than parking," he says, "the only benefit is on gravel roads at speeds over 70 m.p.h." In Japan, where the technology was first marketed more than two years ago, car buyers seem favorably impressed. Nissan reports that 40% of the Japanese who pick the flashy Skyline model ask for four...
...Three U.S. automakers, spokesmen say the companies are still assessing market demand. Donald Runkle, a director of advanced vehicle engineering at General Motors, acknowledges that four-wheel steering can improve handling and maneuverability. The question, he says, is whether Americans will be willing to pay the premium of some $1,000 the Japanese are charging. "We have come down on the side of it not being worth what it costs ! right now," says Runkle. "But we could be wrong. Honda could come in here and clean our clock with four-wheel steering...
Stopping to touch a clump of dead bunchgrass, he looks up at us. "Only the whole is reality," he says. Thunderclouds wheel over the Sandia Mountains but bring no rain. It is 95 degrees F in the shade. We've been brought to a piece of land on the outskirts of Albuquerque and asked why very little is growing here. We measure the distance between plants, look for new seedlings, identify animal tracks, examine the watershed. The soil surface is hard-capped and smooth -- no water can penetrate. The anthills are empty, and under the ground there are no worms...
...front of the car turns this way, the back goes that way . . . Four- wheel steering is the latest innovation from Japan' s automakers...
...talking toys are cuddly, cute or even particularly appealing. Galoob's Mr. Gameshow ($129) features Gus Glitz, a fast-talking, lacquer-haired impresario who stands atop a blinking, bleeping game board and hosts homemade variations on Wheel of Fortune and other word games. With microphone flailing and jaw flapping, Mr. Gameshow dishes out play money and bad jokes with equal largesse: "Nice jacket. Who shot the sofa...