The auto maker plans to expand the system to three other plants in 1990.

Their maker, whoever he or she was, had evidently planned them to be special.

The auto maker had previously planned to close the assembly plant.

The auto maker is planning to raise €5bn in a rights issue by May to fund the debt payments.

Most auto makers reluctantly plan to meet that standard with electric vehicles.

In 1959-1960, all the major makers planned to introduce a "compact" brand.

But they are cringing at the price the maker, Genentech, plans to charge for it: about $100,000 a year.

This year the auto makers plan to produce up to 400,000 more such beasts than they did in 1994, when they sold 1.556 million.

It seems to matter to almost no one that the auto maker plans to invest $1.5 billion here through 2001, including a $500 million engine plant.

"Mystic Pizza," released just three months ago, has been such a success its makers plan two sequels.