Word: chevrolet
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...Chevrolet checked in with a record first-four-month total. April sales were 140,136 cars (up 20% from April 1959), with the compact Corvair accounting for nearly 13.5% of the total...
Argentina has the stiffest import duties (a 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air costs $21,691) and an average auto age of 20. It is probably the only nation in the world which had more cars per capita in 1928 than it does now. Many a Buenos Aires taxi is over 30. Taxis chug along, doors tied shut with string, bodies rocking precariously on chassis, drivers flailing their arms to compensate for 180° of steering-wheel play. In Chile, where the buyer of a $2,000 U.S. car must post an import-discouraging $20,000 bond for three months, some...
Valiant, after starting later and well behind, is beginning to roll; last week's production of 7,000 units edged Chevrolet's Corvair out of third place behind Ford's Falcon and American Motors' Rambler. This fall, announced Colbert, Chrysler will market another compact, the Lancer, as a somewhat larger stablemate for the Valiant. It will have a 30°-inclined, six-cylinder engine turning up 101 h.p., and a price tag just a bit more than the Valiant's factory list price...
Better weather also got credit for a step up in auto sales, which spurted in the final third of March. Besides a solid gain by Ford and Chevrolet (TIME, April 11 Dodge reported that March was its best month since 1952 and that sales for the model year so far are up 129%. Plymouth's 37% sales hike over last year made its first quarter the best since 1957, and Rambler set an alltime March and first-quarter record with a 37% sales gain over last year's record first quarter. Pontiac reported its best first quarter...
...year than the sales figures of the automobile industry. What they are looking for is a sign of spring kicking up its heels. Last week dealer showrooms were full of prospects with the open-road look in their eye and money in their pockets. Preliminary first-quarter sales for Chevrolet showed that sales were clipping along at a record pace that would topple the March 1955 high (155,475) and the 1956 first-quarter record (406,204). Ford sales jumped from 4,000 cars sold a day at the beginning of March to 5,200 sold daily at month...