Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have the widest choice of car sizes available," says William Benton, general manager of the company's Ford division, appropriating a boast long made by GM. "There are customers who do not want to compromise the six-passenger comfort and the many other attributes of the family-size car. We are going to continue to meet this sizable market...
Will GM, by trumpeting gas-mileage savings on its smaller cars, be able to reverse the trend and add to the 47% of car sales that it won in the 1976 model year? Or will the other companies make what Ford officials call "conquest" sales to drivers who bought GM cars in the past but do not want smaller cars now? The question is complicated by price increases of almost 6%, which will raise the price of an average GM car to about $6,000-a shocking figure to the motorist who bought his last car three years...
...years beyond 1977, there is no question how the battle over car sizes will come out. Whatever their marketing analysts-or even their sales charts-might indicate, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors eventually will have to adopt GM's "downsizing" strategy in order to comply with federal law. That law, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, requires U.S.-made autos to get an average 20 m.p.g...
Georgia-born Harry Crews has pushed this proposition about as far as it can go. In such short novels as Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit, The Hawk Is Dying and Car (in which a man eats a car), Crews customized gothic cliches into literary hot-rods. A Feast of Snakes is his most outlandish vehicle to date. Set in Mystic, Ga., site of an annual rattlesnake hunt, the book gathers its atmosphere from the frenzies and violence associated with religious primitivism...
While preparing a film for the BBC about some Jewish children during World War II, Parker and his friend. Producer Alan Marshall, were toying with the idea of making their first feature. Parker kept his own kids entertained on long car trips with some improvised stories about a sawed-off gangster named Bugsy Malone...