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...company most affected is General Motors. The NHTSA, which has been looking into 573 reports of acceleration incidents in H-body cars (Buick LeSabres and Oldsmobile Delta 88s, for example) since last September, will now examine 110 accounts of similar problems in C-body cars (including Cadillac DeVilles, Buick Electras and Olds 98s). The H-body cars have been blamed for 343 accidents that resulted in one death and 145 injuries, while claims concerning C-body cars involved 67 accidents and 43 injuries. Since 1985, about 700,000 H-body cars and 1.4 million C-body models have been sold...
...Columbia gave Lee $6 million to make his second feature, School Daze. Six million dollars is a lot of money for, say, a car. But in movie terms it's just enough for a beat-up Buick. No wonder Spike Lee has a chip on his shoulder...
...word. GM does not have a p.r. problem, it ; has a car problem." Peters and other detractors maintain that consumers have been turned off by GM's lack of innovation and its look-alike designs, which have made it hard to tell a Chevrolet Celebrity from the more expensive Buick Century...
...showed some flair with its popular Chevrolet Beretta and Corsica compacts introduced last year. Now the company is gambling $5 billion to gear up its new GM-10 cars for the more profitable midsize market. These front- wheel-drive coupe models of the Buick Regal, Pontiac Grand Prix and Oldsmobile Cutlass (a Chevrolet model is due next year) replace rear-wheel- drive versions. GM engineers have given each of the cars its own distinctive body lines...
...long run, GM expects to rely heavily on advanced technology to turn out the kinds of cars that people want to buy. Eager to demonstrate high-tech pizazz at the show, the company unveiled five "concept" models -- futuristic versions of GMC, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick and Cadillac vehicles. One, the Pontiac Banshee, resembles a spaceship on wheels, with a canopy top that opens like a jet fighter's. Instead of a rearview mirror, the Banshee has a TV camera in the back of the car that feeds a picture to a dashboard monitor...