Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuddy and Muldoon were the two officers in Car 54, Where Are You? What was Tuddy's first name...
...car buyer knows, things rarely turn out that way. Last week, confirmation of that fact came from the Federal Trade Commission, which concluded in a 205-page report: "Service retains the status of a 'necessary evil' in much of the automobile business." The report, which will lead to full-scale hearings on warranties in January, makes clear that as sales continue to rise service can only become more necessary-and more evil...
Warranties are an old feature that began to get new emphasis in Detroit in the early 1960s. They are now under fire because, according to the commission, they quite often wrongly assure a buyer that "he takes delivery of a car substantially free of defects," and that defects that do appear "will be promptly and effectively corrected...
...answer to the problem seems to be to reduce the warranty periods. The basic two-year, 24,000-mile warranty that applied to 1968 models has been cut to one year and 12,000 miles for the 1969s. That slash saves the industry, by FTC estimate, some $40 per car, or more than $300 million...
What makes truck manufacturers feel best of all is the resurgence of the good old pickup. "This year Mama's interested in pickup trucks," says Chevrolet's new truck-sales manager, O. H. Henry. "They have become a kind of second car." Altogether, some 100,000 new pickups will be sold in 1968 as "campers," which are $3,000 to $4,000 vehicles that have been upgraded to $5,000 and more to include extras...