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...license, the fledgling motorist must take a state-run driver's education course that lasts 180 hours, including 32 hours behind the wheel; truck and taxi drivers must endure 660 hours of instruction. The country's premier car buff is none other than Leonid Brezhnev; he is the proud owner of ten snazzy foreign models, all gifts from heads of state...
...auto sales slide is likely to continue for months to come. The new front-wheel-drive small cars will not all be introduced until April 1981. The task the industry faces will be the most difficult since Henry Ford rolled out the first Model T. Detroit, the city that put the world on wheels, must once again prove to its American customers that it knows how to build reliable, efficient and economical automobiles...
...move some of their merchandise, two companies last week reinstituted rebates. Chrysler is mailing checks for as much as $1,000 to buyers of its '79 four-wheel-drive models, and Ford is offering up to $500 on big Fords, Lincolns and Mercurys...
...have nothing in common." The Dynamo later lets fly with some of her generation's ultimate obloquy: "You're so out of touch with your own feelings." Albert tries to unload some of his burdens upon his psychiatrist, a lulu named Nederlander ("I'm turning the wheel over to you, Doc"), but the best ad vice the shrink can offer is, "Tonight, eat Chinese...
...turns out cars inferior to those made by Japanese or West German manufacturers and that American workers are not sufficiently productive. But one Big Three plant belies such notoriety. The General Motors factory in Tarrytown, N.Y., one of the plants where the company assembles its hot-selling front-wheel-drive Chevrolet Citations, has earned the reputation of being perhaps the giant automaker's most efficient assembly facility. Tarrytown's current renown is more surprising because in the early 1970s the 55-year-old plant was infamous for having one of the worst labor-relations and poorest quality records...