European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes january Volvo continues new registrations Lead by Randy Barnett Auto writer Heidelberg for the Sec Ond year in a Sweden Volvo Auto Mobile leads the Parade in latest Model Green plate with of the 1980modcl Volvo listed by the Usa eur and 7th army registry of motor vehicles at the registry annual giving the yearly statistics by make and year of manufacture As of was released this week and it showed foreign made cars leading on two counts Volvo in the 1980 Model category and Volkswagen in total Green plate registration with the grand total registration of All operational passenger cars is an in crease of Over last years truck registrations totalled an in crease of while motorcycles were listed at an increase of Volkswagen retains its traditional 1 position in total cars registered because of the availability of used the majority from the 1967 to 1974 of the the Usa eur for lists vows of 1970 of 1971 heritage and of 1972 product in the 1980 Model Volkswagen registrations total Only most of those cars probably brought Over from the United states where cation Volkswagen Are manufactured in new but regardless whether its new car sales Are up or Volkswagen will have no problem in leading us Reurs total envoys letter stirs papers reply dreary Ireland is frontage news Dublin up the newspaper which front aged an american diplomats private letter lamenting his tour in dreary Ireland said thursday he deserved promo the letter from the cultural affairs and press Robin turned up at the Irish times among a routine publicity kit on president embassy sources said it was an unfortunate secretarial the Irish times printed in a followup the newspaper said the letter was critical but with a Good Deal of an irishman  have done bet the newspaper he deserves bar ringtones letter criticized Ireland High Cost of their the dreary the constant strikes and the dark and Damp Winters which Combine to gnaw away at ones enthusiasm for being Berrington also described Ireland As be ing pretty Small potatoes compared to the other european countries and said no great issues Burn up the wires Between Dublin and the hottest item seems to be the ques Tion of whether or not president reagans ancestors really do come from the Irish times we Are far too sold on the Plamas flattery line which for Eigners serve up to that Plamas is often elicited almost at gunpoint by reporters whose opening gambit to the visitor so frequently How do you like Ireland and that before they have drawn their the newspaper said there were shortcomings in Berrington the Man has no Eye for the paper he did he never see a Western Lake turn Navy Blue under the interplay of Cloud and Sun Lias he not enjoyed the Pink Pearly Light of Sunset in the same parts was he never at Large in the country in the month of june when the dark has barely fallen before the Sun is up again Over 20 hours of Balm and but he hits Home at so Many High Cost of goods we can All say that dreary Urban scapes and getting Dre Arier because so few care and those Are labelled As Murphys Law he quotes for our Ineffie but Murphys Law originated in the United As to the breakdown in Tele electricity and garbage pick ups the Man is a Berrington described the High society Anglo Irish set who speak As if they had marbles in their and described the English As the poor English and the Anglo Irish whoever they the Irish times get bad All in an outbreak of Candor that must do much to restores ones Faith in the humanity of under the Snow tree a Snow covered tree spreads protective limbs Over a group of 3rd inf div soldiers taking part in Carbon a 10day training exercise in the country Side around of 1st were preparing to move on to another Man Euver photo by Bob Crockett soviets protest criticism of press Moscow a the soviet foreign ministry called in americas top Diplomat in Moscow thursday to protest state department criticism of soviet press treatment of the release of the the soviet news Agency Tass the embassy confirmed that charge affaires Jack Matlock was summoned to the foreign but declined to give details of the a spokesman said Only that mat lock was issued a statement by Georgy kor the first Deputy soviet foreign min and that the embassy would Forward the statement the in its report on the said that state department comments had cast aspersions on the soviet the soviet stand toward holding staff members of the american embassy in Teh ran is consistent and Tass apparently quoting the statement to the has been advocating and continues to advocate unswerving compliance with the generally recognized norms of International registration list As Long As used beetles arc while Volvo again topped the 1980 Model listing with its figure they won last year with the japanese Dat Sun firm is off to a big Lead in 1981 according to the usar eur the 1981 Dat Sun total is far and away the High following Volvo in the new car registration category is general motors Chevrolet division with then conies Ford made with american motors with Volkswagen with its Chrysler Dodge division with 408 and the japanese Toyota with with the Dollar now on the the High Cost automobile list May grow next but for 1980 the scene was anything but All for the Usa eur registry lists 76 1980model Audi 83 12 55 64 23 and 171 those Volvo mentioned Arent exactly in the Economy car and while listing the 23 new German made it is also Worth noting that porsche is by far the most popular Green plate sports the total for All Model years being porsche is followed by the British Triumph sports car at 480 and the no defunct British my roadster with other interesting sports models include a total of 4 Ferrari newest of the four being a 1977 make 2 Isis and 6 Masera All of these cars of italian Man fac from Britain come 68 7 21 3 Lotus 3 mor Gans and 2 four French Matras Are plus one under the very impressive category Are a British Bentley and a both prior 1962 registry rarities include 2 i Packard and 1 All from the and 2 Gogo mobiles from the registry also counts a few cars manufactured in communist countries with the most popular being the czechoslovakian Skoda with a total of including two 1980 also on the list Are 20 rus Sian made Lada cars and two yugoslav japanese made cars All firms with Green plates total a Strong gain from last year when the total figure was the German made Bow and Mercedes cars also Fig ure in prominently where total registrations Are but like their totals Are rolled up by used cars mainly of 1968 to 73 looking briefly at Honda of Japan is tops in total registration with 419 while Kawasaki leads in 1980 Model registration with plus another 29 listed in the 1981 Kawasaki also follows Honda in total registration with next among the top six in total registration Are Harley Davidson with Yamaha with Bow with 143 and Suzuki with to close out the annual Usa eur registry Volkswagen is tops in to Tal operational vehicle registrations with cars of All Model general motors follows in second place with a grand total of while third is Ford with that total including its Lincoln Mercury Overall is opel of Germany a pm subsidiary with while fifth is Ford of Germany with mod sixth is Chrysler including its Dodge and Plymouth divisions with while Mercedes is seventh with eighth is Audi with Bow with and Fiat of Italy with total figures from the registry of motor vehicles Are As follows total operational passenger vehicles total operational trucks total operational total operational trailers operational grand total no operational passenger vehicles no operational trucks 95 no operational no operational trailers 112 no operational grand total