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Article: Hold the Applause
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- Jerusalem Post
- Article date:
- July 17, 1998
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Joel Gordin
Jerusalem Post
07-17-1998
DAIHATSU APPLAUSE GLI
ENGINE: 1,590cc.
HORSEPOWER: 99 at 6,000rpm.
TORQUE: 13.8 at 3,600rpm
SHIFT: Automatic
MAXIMUM SPEED: 175 km/h
GASOLINE CONSUMPTION: 15.1 km/l at 90km/h; 11.8km/l in town
PRICE: NIS 82,200. (manual shift version : NIS 76,200)
The Daihatsu Applause arrived here in 1990 - smack in the right place at the right time.
Its arrival coincided with the mass aliya from the former Soviet Union, when thousands of consumer-conscious immigrants were searching for a suitable car to buy with their tax-exemption privileges. The Applause fit the immigrants like a glove. It was the cheapest family-size car available and, to ...
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