Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close is the car to production? The company has only half a dozen staffers on the project, can hardly foot the bill for a crash program. Though A.M.C. won special congressional legislation last week providing a tax rebate that may be worth as much as $20 million, and successfully negotiated a one-year extension of a $65 million bank loan, it lost $75.8 million in fiscal 1967. And development of the Amitron has a way to go. The car rolled out last week was a prototype with no power plant. First road tests of the power plant will come next...
...sees little chance of bringing down the $15,000 it would cost to produce the silver-zinc batteries in its Electrovair II prototype. But the planning goes on, and should ultimately produce practical results. Among other names and notions being concocted by A.M.C. Styling Chief Richard Teague is a car called "the Voltswagon...
...Mercedes' staid image, has become truly muscular. Deciding that his company ought to do better in the "world's toughest market," Mercedes' Zahn ended a U.S. marketing deal with now-defunct Studebaker-Packard in 1965, built up an independent network of 260 dealers. By carefully watching car-buying tastes in the U.S.-where 85% want automatic transmission (v. only 40% in Germany) and 65% ask for air conditioning (v. less than 1%), Mercedes has increased its American sales by 25% this year, to 20,600 cars, now accounts for half of all U.S. imports tagged...
...barrel minigun that fires 6,000 rounds per minute. A special helmet linked to an infra-red light beam allows the pilot to aim his fire system by moving his head, while the gunner, using a periscopic sight, can presumably hit an object as small as a car radiator cap from 1 ± miles away...
...industry. Though Detroit is still feeling strike effects-auto sales in the first ten days of December were running 12% behind last year-the industry continues to count on a sharp rise on 1968 sales charts. One automaker, Henry Ford II, last week predicted that next year's car and truck sales will be up by 900,000, matching 1965's record sales of 9,300,000. Even if a demand-dampening tax increase is enacted, said Ford's chairman, "I think we are going to have a very good year...