Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sales figures suggest that buyers are becoming more discriminating and value conscious. When General Motors in mid-March ran special sales contests, during which dealers pare prices, sales increased dramatically. While total new-car sales were down for the first six months of the 1978 model-year, sales of compact and subcompact cars increased by 13%. The star performer at General Motors last month was the boxy Chevette; its sales were up 84%, compared with a year ago. At Ford, Mustang sales rose 14%, while the new Fairmont is a stellar seller. Ford's lacocca puts himself...
...think it was the second car I saw on the lonely night road that pulled over and offered me door-service. It was Thurman Munson, sipping a Budweiser, scrubbing his day-old whiskers and casually directing his Corvette. After exchanging the usual biographical information, I found out that Thurman was a pitcher from Omaha playing for the Cleveland Indian Double...
...pact is very tentative: basically, a commitment to try to work out a formal deal. If concluded, that deal would combine the two companies' selling efforts in the U.S. (American Motors cars would appear in Renault showrooms and vice versa) and provide for sales of AMC Jeeps by Renault dealers overseas. Most important, Renault cars might be built in AMC plants. There are even some hints that the two companies might get together on designing a new car...
Such cooperation would clearly benefit both companies, but only to a limited extent. AMC Jeeps have been selling well in the U.S., but overseas they could face fierce Japanese competition. Making Renault's small, 32-m.p.g. Le Car would help AMC get the m.p.g. average of its total fleet high enough to meet tough federal standards. But Renaults have not sold well in America; they seem unlikely to draw much traffic to AMC dealer showrooms. Above all, Renault would put no money into cash-short AMC. If this is the best deal American Motors can come up with...
...house at the end of the street in Pacific Palisades is an unpretentious single-level ranch with requisite car port. The torrents of rain that recently fell on Southern California have turned the lawn AstroTurf green. Strawberries, one of Noah's occasional words, are ripening along the walk that leads to the front door...