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This year at Le Mans, Ferrari, Jaguar and Aston Martin were once again the cars to beat. Ferrari's three-car factory team was favored on the basis of sheer speed, while the Jags and Astons pinned their main hopes on a recurrence of the 1957 race, when mechanical trouble took the Ferraris out of the running. "Our Astons have 40 to 50 h.p. less than the Ferraris," said Aston Martin's Stirling Moss. "On speed we can't touch them...
...filled Manhattan's Coliseum with more than 600 cars from 68 automakers in nine countries, and as always the crowds clustered admiringly around the rich and the racy. Britain's famed Rolls-Royce showed off a new Silver Cloud convertible ($19,350); there was a 150-m.p.h. Aston Martin sports sedan ($9,870), a new French Facel-Vega sedan ($12,800), and a handsome roadster ($10,500) from Germany's B.M.W. But the real news this year was the continuing growth of the small-car market, and the automakers' pitch to the family that would rather...
...field day. Factory-team Ferraris finished one-two in the twelve-hour International Grand Prix of Endurance, took five of the first ten places. Winner of the other five top spots: West Germany's small, beetle-like Porsche. Notably out of it: Britain's highly touted Aston Martin and Lister-Jaguar...
...with chrome and bright-painted metal. On view at Italy's oldest and biggest auto show were the pride and joy of the world's automakers: 64 models from twelve nations, including General Motors' opulent Cadillac, Czechoslovakia's tanklike Tatra, Britain's 150-m.p.h. Aston Martin racer. But the stars of the show were not the big, the swift or the beautiful. They were the small, neatly styled economy cars that spark the biggest boom Europe's automakers have ever known. This year the industry will produce better than 4,500,000 small cars...
...trial for reckless driving, 23-year-old French Novelist Françoise Sagan chugalugged a quick beer on the steps of the Palace of Justice in suburban Corbeil. The conscience of the go-hoyden-go set, she likes speeds around 100 m.p.h. Hurtling along near Corbeil in 1957, her Aston-Martin dived into a field and turned over, nearly killing the novelist and three friends...