Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Detroit is doing it the old-fashioned way: by giving good value to those who buy its vehicles. "From a competitive standpoint, I think American autos have surpassed the Japanese," observes Thomas Flagg, a trucking executive in Trenton, New Jersey, who recently purchased a Chevrolet Geo Tracker for his daughter. "On a dollar-for-dollar basis, I think you'll get more for your money from an American...
...need for new wheels has given a strong boost to sales in regions still in the economic doldrums. "I'm probably down to a 45-day supply of vehicles," says Timothy Connell, sales manager for his family's Chevrolet dealership in recession-scarred Southern California. "Normally I'd carry a 90-day supply...
...lawyers in the country (he advises Ross Perot, who endowed a chair at Georgetown Law in his name) and sharing the tasks of family life. The two had met as undergraduates during her first semester at Cornell when Marty gave a lift to a friend in his old Chevrolet to pick up a date who lived in the dorm room next to Ruth's. The minute Ruth graduated in 1954, they got married at his parents' house...
After the suspect exited the room and began running down the hallway, the student set off in pursuit. He and two of his roommates attempted to apprehend the suspect on Plympton Street, but the man escaped in a maroon and gray Chevrolet Caprice...
...pickups, sold under the Chevrolet and GMC nameplates, are commonly used as recreation vehicles and as workhorses in fields like construction and farming. As in Ford and Chrysler pickups, the gas tank in GM trucks was mounted inside the cab, behind the seats, until federal regulations in 1973 forced the companies to relocate the tank. Ford and Chrysler placed it underneath the vehicle's chassis, inside a set of heavy-steel frame rails. In GM models made between 1973 and 1987, however, the gas tank was mounted like a saddlebag, outside the frame. This configuration made the tank more vulnerable...