Word: chevrolet
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...high-quality color photos, was GM's top-secret Saturn automobile, which the company has spent $3 billion to develop and plans to roll into showrooms late next year. What really sent the motor moguls into orbit were signs that the Saturn pictures, along with shots of the 1993 Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird in the same issue, had been leaked to the trade magazine by an employee in GM's design studios. Unlike the grainy, long-distance spy shots that paparazzi regularly take of new models as they whiz around company test tracks, the Saturn pictures were crisp...
...future looks oddly familiar. The purloined photos include shots of a two-door coupe that resembles Chevrolet's 1989 Geo Storm, as well as pictures of a four-door sedan that Automobile Magazine said "could fit right into Oldsmobile's lineup." The magazine added that Saturn's mechanical features, also leaked from within GM, were not "particularly innovative." With advance notices like that, GM might do well to devote as much energy to Saturn's continued improvement as to the search for the culprit who leaked its photos...
...only 119 problems per 100 cars during the first 90 days, while owners of new American cars reported 163 glitches. Even so, the quality competition has drastically boosted value for the car buyer: before 1960 the typical U.S. auto warranty was just three months or 4,000 miles. Today Chevrolet offers basic coverage of three years or 50,000 miles and Chrysler covers selected models for five years or 50,000 miles...
Shortly after 6 a.m. on Saturday an engineer climbed into the newly exposed space to evaluate the test. He was astonished: something had moved inside a silver Chevrolet Sprint. Excited rescuers crawled cautiously closer. They found a man, alive and semiconscious, still strapped into the front seat. When a paramedic shouted, the man moved his head. Struggling gingerly for five hours, they extricated Buck Helm, 57, a shipping clerk, who managed to wave an arm as he was lifted to a waiting ambulance amid the cheers of exultant searchers. His condition was described as critical but stable. He had survived...
...Chevrolet Celebrity, deadheading back to Boston from Logan Airport, is pulled over by a Boston policeman. The offense: an expired inspection sticker; the fine: $50. But not for a car bearing license plate STATE 1 that moments earlier had Massachusetts' favorite son riding in the rear passenger seat. A warning will...