Word: chevrolet
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...company has poured $2.5 billion into the project so far. The stubby X car will replace four of GM's existing compact models; it will be sold by four GM divisions, each of which will give it a slightly different body, as well as a different name. Chevrolet's model will be called the Citation, and it will replace the current Chevy Nova. Three other divisions will use the same names that they now have on their compacts: Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark. The cars will be classified as 1980 models, giving them a five-month...
...last Monday afternoon, a Chevrolet station wagon carrying five Palestinians drove slowly down the Rue Verdun in west Beirut. As it passed a parked Volkswagen, a huge plastique bomb turned the street into a violent shambles of smoke and flames. The occupants of the station wagon were mortally wounded; four passersby, including a German nun and an English student, were killed, and 18 others were injured...
...exhaustively as Gesell and Spock have traced their development. The exhibition includes a number of such photos as well as the highly realistic work of Painters John Koch and Robert Bechtle, who depict children in casual poses: sitting around the pool with their parents or standing by the family Chevrolet. Less self-conscious than the old portraits, they remain, nonetheless, stored glimpses of the children's hour...
Members of the football team could not be reached for comment concerning the alleged allegations of the devious dimwits because they all left for a weekend of fun and frolic at the Cape in their Volkswagen Rabbits, Chevrolet Vegas, American Motors Pacers, and Audi 100LS's immediately following the game...
Downsizing, begun in the '76 model-year by GM with its Cadillac Seville and Chevrolet Chevette, has spread to most of Detroit's bigger '79 cars. Chrysler has introduced a New Yorker that looks much like the large cars of old; yet it is 800 lbs. lighter and 9 in. shorter than last year's version. GM shortened its Cadillac Eldorado by 20 in. and slashed 1,150 lbs. from its body, thus slaying, presumably for good, the last of GM's giants. The few remaining 1978 Eldorados are selling briskly to speculators who hope...