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<text id=90TT1231>
<title>
May 14, 1990: Business Notes:Automobiles
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 75
Business Notes
AUTOMOBILES
If They Rent, They May Buy
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<p> For automakers, owning a rental-car company is a great way
to showcase products. Ford has already bought into Hertz,
General Motors is allied with Avis, and Chrysler owns Thrifty.
Now a foreign manufacturer is getting into the act. Last week
Mitsubishi Motors became the first Japanese owner of a U.S.
agency when it bought control of Value Rent-A-Car for an
undisclosed sum. Mitsubishi currently supplies 10% of Value's
20,000-car fleet, a share that will rise to 85% by year's end.
After the agency has used the cars, it will turn them over to
the company's dealer network for resale. And Mitsubishi hopes
the arrangement will boost its profile by allowing renters to
try out new models. The automaker hopes to sell 200,000
vehicles in the U.S. this year, up from 150,000 in 1989.
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