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Says that, in a step toward capitalist reform, the Soviet Union is planning to sell at least 30 percent of the Volga Automotive Plant Association, a dominant producer of passenger cars, to a foreign investor. Bear, Stearns & Company, the Wall Street investment bank, to assist with the sale; Fiat SpA, the Italian auto maker, in lead to buy part of Volga's Lada operations.

States that Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation have increased the efficiency of their factories and workers so much in recent years that their basic cost of producing a car is now less than that of their Japanese rivals. Comparison of cost of producing cars.

Examines how the Halewood plant of Ford Motor Company outside Liverpool, England, was transformed during the 1980s and production was increased more than 40 percent while the payroll was trimmed by a third.