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SOUTH BEND, Ind. <- Car buyers often find that the end of a model year presents Plus... 5 YEAR-50,000 MILE WARRANTY V/ 9 & Oh, % i if »l« P m »» 815-459-8000 CORNER OF RT. 14 AND RT. 176 CRYSTAL LAKE IL Cutlass Clera Brougham Sedan Come In TODAY While the Selection is Good! IMS Bulck Century Cutlass Supreme Sedan TOM SEZ: TIME AND CARS ARE GROWING SHORT. (LIKE ME) COME IN WHILE SELECTION IS BEST. CASH BACK on selected vehicles • Sportsman* Van* • Omul's • Chargers ' • Aries • Daytonas • Lancer • 600 s NORTHWEST HERALD SKIUMIC Friday. SwMmkW*. IMS Pat* » r Car buyers often find that the end of a model year presents tome good opportunities for deal- making, and the same may be true this.year JorEV buyers. * Motor home | n a n u f a c t u r e r s previewed some of their 1986 models for dealers and the public recently at the 31st Annual Midwest M a n u f a c t u r e d Housing and Recreation Vehicle Show in South Bend. While commenting on the new products, some of the BV dealers felso talked about their Willingness to deal on JM5 models still on their lots. : "We're going to do what we can to sell our 1985 models to make room for our nice, fresh '86s," said Jim Schulte, who operates a dealership in Maroa, Dl. - Schulte said modern 'motor homes are engineered better than before, and they're also more -aerodynamic. Some ".manufacturers "have gone to Detroit and 'taken their notebook year's end bright for RV buyers th them" he added motor homes >» u ut. .4 „ . _ .. . with them" he added, bringing back automotive design and m a n u f a c t u r i n g methods, even including the use of robotics. Motor homes also have become larger In general, he noted: "Families have gone down in size, but they seem to want a large recreation vehicle." In Schulte's central Illinois market, however, the smaller, fuel-efficient motor homes are ,• in the highest demand, he said. James Trinchitella of Travel America Inc. in West Chicago also noted that aerodynamic design has contribued to the motor home's continued popularity. "There are some aerodynamic units, plus lighter units. I think this is one of the things that have helped the fuel economy," he said. "There are some units in the plus-20 miles per gallon range like the LeSharo a Phasar eel-drive motor homes are larger, achltella said, a 34- foot vehicle now weighs less than a five- year-old, 29-foot unit. Trinchitella said there are a number of good reasons for consumers to shop now, before the 1986 models appear on dealers' lots around the country. Joe Altman, vice president and general manager of operations for Dave Altman's BV Centers In Baldwin at any other time of Park, Van Nuys and year. Carson, Calif., said he "We all have to and other BV dealers order our '86s and we are "a lot more willing need the space on our to deal right now" than lots," he said. "SKF SAVE BIG! AT MITCHELL OLDS BUICK GMC TRUCK IN MCHENRY NO FINANCE CHARGE W I T H APPROVED CREDIT State the land with smoke­ stack factories," said William Hoglund, presi- ; dent of Saturn. Nissan has had mini­ mal impact on Smyrna, which admittedly is a larger town, and most of the plant's 3,000 em­ ployees were hired locally. But GM will bring an unspecified number of [laid-off United Auto ^Workers from Detroit to (first positions at i so there will be of new homes, >artments, com nd Winneba and Itai front-w ve! while some around -ing up :HIII. Experts predict Sat­ urn will result in 20,000 Supplier Jobs in Middle 'Tennessee by the time I(he plant opens and starts cranking out -$00,000 cars a year by :i968. ; In fact, no one -- not -even GM -- knows ex­ actly how many of the "estimated 6,000 Saturn "Jobs will go to Tennes­ seans, but the feeling is 6ther plants drawn to would create more i anyway. GM officials have as­ sured area residents they will get first crack fit most of the 4,000 con­ structions for the Sat- Orn plant when building starts in the next few months. What many Spring Hill residents fear most is not Saturn, but what follows the carmaker -- fast-buck artists and Other ne'er-do-wells. - The Spring Hill scen­ ery is in for a change. Says Graham Kenne­ dy, who left Atlanta for (he quiet of Spring Hill 11 years ago, "For some reason, I just can't picture a McDon­ ald's in Spring Hill." In the state capltol, Alexander proudly points to a wall in his Office where there hangs a map of Tenrifes- see full of red push-pins that represent the big cities and tiny towns -- 500 of them -- celebrat­ ing 'Tennessee Home­ coming '86." ; Minnie Pearl and Alex Haley are direct­ ing the affair that will enable thousands of Tennesseans and for­ mer Tennesseans the chance to trace their roots and come home for a reunion with fam­ ily and friends. r "We will be celebrat­ ing the very values that helped bring Saturn here," said Alexander, a seventh-generation East Tennessean. At the same time, Al­ exander and Tennessee continue to recruit hard. Within days of Saturn's announce­ ment, Alexander wrote an open letter to the na­ tion that appeared as a full-page advertisement in several national --(Continued from Page 5C) newspapers espousing the merits of the state. "We just want to get people thinking about Tennessee," Alexander said. "Now's the time. When you have opportu­ nities, you take them." But that is not his only priority. "My major goal for the state for my re­ maining time as gover­ nor is to keep yester­ day's values while we're getting tomor­ row's jobs," said Alex­ ander, whose term ends year. "We're dead leaftoutaiat; "How do we fit all this into the landscape without changing the landscape too much? 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