Word: camaros
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...Camaro has not exactly taken off with a Mustang gait, partly because of some shortage, which G.M. is curing with overtime production. Sales in November's first ten days were just under 5,000, or 371% of Mus tang's rate, and Pete Estes' prediction of 100,000 Camaros built by year-end 1966 will probably be a shade high. As for the other Mustang-like new car, Mercury has sold 12,500 Cougars so far, and supplies are so short that any Cougars in dealers' hands are practically nailed to the floor. Almost the entire...
...Eldorado, and American Motors Corp. the Marlin. Chrysler-Plymouth cut a year off the development time of the Barracuda in order to get it on the road this year. Lincoln-Mercury has introduced the Cougar to fill the price gap between Mustang and Thunderbird. Chevrolet this fall introduced its Camaro, a frank copy of Mustang, to go along with the Corvair Monza which had been its interim lower-priced specialty car. In February, Pontiac, which already has the Tempest GTO model, will bring out its brand-new Firebird-also being built in a crash program-as the twelfth entry...
Despite the stress on safety, styling has not been forgotten. Among brand-new cars, Chevrolet offers the Camaro, a copy of Ford's successful Mustang. Lincoln-Mercury's Cougar has a front like a Thunderbird and a rear like the Mustang. Next week Cadillac will display the Eldorado, a front-wheel-drive sports car with Caddy configuration and the innards of Oldsmobile's Toronado...
...higher priced ($3,200) version of the Mustang. Among Cougar's features will be a steering column that tilts automatically to the right when the driver's door is opened, thus allowing him to slide out more easily. The other new car is Chevrolet's Camaro, a sports car that competes directly with the Mustang in its own price range. Originally called Panther, Camaro is almost an outright imitation of the Mustang, from its simple grille to its squat tail. Chevrolet says that the name is French, means "comrade" or "pal." Sniping competitors note that versions...