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...Erika. The cars in Ford Motor Co.'s future are the Ford Escort and Mercury Lynx, code-named the Erika. As successor to the decade-old Ford Pinto and Mercury Bobcat, they are smaller than either GM's X-cars or Chrysler's K models. The Escort and Lynx will seat four adults with ease, and have fuel economy estimates of 30 m.p.g. city and 44 m.p.g. highway...
...prospect for future profits. These will be small, economical vehicles assembled from parts made in several countries. Essentially, the same car will be sold all over the globe. Ford's entry in this field is the subcompact Ford Escort and Mercury Lynx, which replace the outdated Pinto and Bobcat models...
Next month Ford's Mercury division will introduce the Bobcat, a fancied-up, $3,000-plus version of the Pinto, as its entry in the small-car field. Ford has also come out with two trimmed-down models aimed at the standard-car buyer: the Mercedes-size Granada and Monarch, which are 26 in. shorter, 8 in. narrower and more than half a ton lighter than the standard-size sedan, but longer on mileage (between 18 and 26 m.p.g. on the highways...
Gatto's task will be to get the Bobcat standouts off the cafeteria trays, and onto the gridiron...
...prairie, the engineer switches on the regular headlights and a rotating white Mars light, which cuts a circular cone through the dark. The shiny tops of the distant rails reflect the jewel-like green signals, a row of beckoning beacons in the night. Engineer O.K. Stewart remembers meeting a bobcat on the tracks one night. "Those old eyes were glowing as big as baseballs when we came around the curve," he says...