Word: aerostar
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...plant is operating at full speed and will produce 180,000 minivans this year, Chrysler is hard-pressed to keep up with demand. Some dealers are charging a $2,000 premium on each van. Due within the next nine months are two competing models: the Chevrolet Astro and Ford Aerostar. Industry experts think that minivan sales could go all the way to 750,000 a year...
...America during 1984. General Motors and Ford will not launch vans until early in 1985. Both firms chose to put out a line of small trucks before the minivans. To catch up, Ford has even taken the unusual step of displaying a mock-up of its slope-fronted Aerostar minivan at auto shows a full year before the official introduction. Says Sales Vice President Philip Benton: "We think there is a market for 600,000 minivans eventually, and we think ours is a winner." Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca and President Harold Sperlich first discussed building minivans in the mid-1970s...