Word: chevrolet
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...underestimated the compact market, is stepping up production in a race to meet demand. Compacts now account for 25% of U.S. auto production, helped push output to a January record of 691,400 cars. Ford's Falcon has already nudged into third place in production (topped only by Chevrolet and the big Ford), grabbed some 30% of the compact market with sales of 100,000. It is rapidly approaching the well-established Rambler, which holds first place in compact sales with 112,700 to date. Production of both Chevy's Corvair and Chrysler's Valiant is still...
General Motors' Corvair, most radical of the Big Three compacts, has had the most complaints, though many were the minor bugs that often afflict a completely new car. Chevrolet took advantage of the steel strike shutdown to correct most of them, including a slipping fan belt and carburetor icing. Biggest complaint against the Corvair is its gas mileage, which sometimes runs well under 20 m.p.g., rarely measures up to other compacts. Part of the trouble may be its gasoline heater, which eats up to a quart of gas an hour. Chevrolet engineers have also remodeled the Corvair...
...horsepower race, which Detroit likes to pretend does not exist in standard cars, is off to a fast start in the compacts. Chevrolet first offered an optional power pack, boosting the horsepower of the Corvair from 80 to 95. Last week Ford disclosed that it will offer an optional 100-h.p. engine for the 90-h.p. now in the Falcon. Chrysler will do even better. It will offer a 148-h.p. engine for its Valiant which is now the most powerful compact (101-h.p.) among the Big Three...
...death, police naturally went to Rosie McMillan's friends for information-and one of the first they sought out was George Mickey. As the investigation continued, a web of evidence drew tighter around the dean; smears of human blood that matched her type were found on his Chevrolet, his picture was found in her purse, what an investigator described as "indiscreet" letters were found in her home. Questioned, Mickey said that during the hours when Rosie McMillan was killed, he had been in a coffee shop with an official from the U.S. Department of Education, had later seen...
Stay Back. It was just the sort of thing the headstrong Iraqi like, and Kassem himself could use a boost to his sagging popularity. Since the attempt on his life, he no longer cruises about in his old Chevrolet station wagon; he now rides in a bulletproof ZIM. His public appearances are limited to ten minutes each, and no stranger is allowed within 20 yards of him. In Baghdad, for the first time, there is even an occasional wisecrack about...