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...fellows who just missed getting jobs making license plates will soon be back behind the wheel of the world's largest truck and trailer producer. Robert D. Rowan, 57, former president and chief executive of Detroit's Fruehauf Corp., and William E. Grace, 70, the former chairman, were convicted in 1975 of defrauding the Government of $12.3 million in excise taxes. Though both are stitt on probation, next month Rowan will return to his $440,000-a-year job and Grace will become chairman of Fruehauf s executive committee...
Your article on Detroit's "Total Revolution" [March 19] should have been titled "Detroit Tries to Catch Up." The only really new automotive engineering has been done overseas. I've been driving a German car with the new front-wheel drive for four years, and the stratified charge engine has been available from Japan for some time...
...looks like a typical small pickup truck, but Japan's Subaru insists that the BRAT DL, a four-wheel-drive vehicle with an open cargo bed that it sells in the U.S. for $5,288, is really a "bi-drive recreational all-terrain transporter." The difference is important, at least to the manufacturer and U.S. Customs. By placing two seats in the BRAT'S cargo area, Subaru is able to import the machine as a car, on which the tariff is only 3%, rather than as a truck, on which the import tax is a far heftier...
After two days at the wheel, the bogey men will arrive at the Ponce de Leon Lodge and Links Resort for a Saturday tee-off against mini-titan Flagler College, whose players will be the Crimson's guides for the remainder of the week...
Like some other recent new models, the X cars will have front-wheel drive; with FWD, engine power is delivered to the front wheels to pull the car. European manufacturers have long been using FWD, but the U.S. industry began and grew up with rear-wheel drive, and Detroit's chiefs regarded changing to FWD as prohibitively expensive...