With only a few thousand models on the road, Avanti has hardly become a household word. But the new owner of the Youngstown, Ohio-based company hopes to change all that. John. J. Cafaro, a shopping-mall developer who bought Avanti last August, is positioning the car as an American alternative to Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, and BMW. Cafaro's Avanti is nearly identical to the first one designed for Studebaker in 1962. Newsweek