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2B ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/The Charlotte Post Detroit Auto Show features new models by Plymouth, Chevrolet Thursday, January 11,1996 By Brian Sakre ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT - The Motor City kicked off the U.S. auto indus try’s centennial celebration Saturday by opening the North American International Auto Show, its premier display of the world’s latest automo tive technology. Thousands of people jammed Coho Hall downtown for the city’s 80th annual exhibition of cars and trucks, a 10-day show featuring more than 700 mod els from 40 manufacturers in nine countries. Among the cars drawing the biggest crowds was the purple 1997 Plymouth Prowler, an aluminum-framed, retro hot rod. It’s unlike anything ever to come out of Detroit’s Big Three automakers. Among its admirers was Dave Haus, 50, of Mechanicsburg, Pa. “There’s a perfect market for this among people our age,” Haus said. “When we were teen-agers, we’d build those kind of cars.” Don’t expect the Prowler to be easy to buy, however. Chrysler Corp. plans to pro duce only 3,000 of the wedge- shaped speedsters in 1997, and dealers can be expected to ‘97 Chevrolet Malibu add a hefty markup to the $35,000 price tag. Other cars luring showgoers were German automaker BMW’s sexy little Z3 roadster - first seen by many in the new James Bond movie the Mercedes-Benz AAV sport util ity vehicle prototype, and just about every other SUV. Jeff ICaminski, a city recre ation employee in Warren, was eyeing a luxurious Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. He had the reaction of many others when he checked the sport utility’s $34,696 price tag. “It’s kind of hard to afford a new car,” Kaminski lamented, noting his spending limit was around $15,000. Some window stickers clear ly implied, “Look, don’t touch” their bottom lines fatter than the cost of most houses in Detroit. Among them: the $150,000 Aston Martin DB7 Volante, the $200,000 Dodge Viper GTS-R, and the $250,000 Lamborghini Diablo roadster. Haus and his wife. Peg, were looking over a bright red, four- wheel-drive 1996 Oldsmobile Bravada. They plan to trade in their ‘94 Bravada soon; like a lot of Americans, they’re sold on sport utilities. “We ski in the wintertime, we tow our boat in the summer time, so we need a vehicle like that,” he said. “We also drive a Cadillac, but we leave the Cadillac in the garage in the winter and use this.” Several new models that will reach showrooms later this year or in early 1997 also were attracting a lot of oglers, including the redesigned Ford F-Series pickup, the imported Cadillac Catera and the new Chevrolet Malibu. 1996 is the 100th anniver sary of the industry, which began when brothers Charles and J. Frank Duryea produced the first volume run of auto mobiles in Springfield, Mass. Events planned to mark the centennial include the opening of the Automotive Hall of Fame museum next to the Henry Ford Museum in subur ban Detroit. James Griffin of Lansing, touring the show with his 11- year-old son, Terrell, said the show’s many concept cars boded well for the auto indus try. “It seems like it’s got a bright future,” he said. “They’ve got a lot of new ideas.” Organizers expect the show’s attendance to match or exceed last year’s record of 693,569. The show runs through Jan. 15. PHOTO/WINFRED CROSS The Plymouth Prowler will finally see the light of production in ‘97. An automatic will be standard. Prowler going into production ASSOCIATED PRESS NORWALK, Ohio Mayflower Vehicle Systems Inc. will assemble the body for a new Pl3Tnouth sports car at its plant in this northern Ohio community, the company said Tuesday. The sports car is the Prowler, Plymouth’s answer to the Dodge Viper. The project will create 25 to 30 new jobs when production begins early next year, said Gene Denney, Ma3dlower exec utive vice president and chief operating officer. Body panels will be stamped and trimmed at the company’s Shadyside plant. Parts will be shipped to Norwalk, where they will be assembled using a new rivet construction process being developed by Mayflower, Denney said. The Norwalk plant will pro duce 3,000 to 4,000 bodies a year. After assembly. Prowler bod-° ies will be given a primer coat with a new paint process and shipped elsewhere for assem bly. Whether that destination is a Chrysler Corp. plant or another supplier is undecided, Denney said. Plymouth is a Chrysler subsidiary. wiNMllBnai owM.orrE.MC. America's Supermarket' ,9 OtMWTTTT Prices good Wed. Jan. lOthruTues. Jan. 16,1996. The Beef People^ • 1/8' inch Trim • Always U.S.D.A. Choice V; Aged for Tenderness > W-D Brand U.S.D.A. Choice “Aged” Porterhouse or T-Bone Steaks U.S.D.A. 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