Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might tell you that my philosophy represents a very small and marginal section of the baseball community. But I like hot dogs, baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet like everyone else. It's just that my icons come with a few particulars. Thus, the last three and most important commandments...
...high-tech efficiency. The all-aluminum NSX, which weighs just 3,000 lbs., has a top speed of 168 m.p.h. and can accelerate from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in a brisk 5.6 sec. Reviews in the automotive press have been ecstatic. "Compared with the NSX," said Automobile magazine, "a Chevrolet Corvette felt like it was from the Iron Age. A Ferrari 328 felt ponderous, massively challenging to drive, and not terribly quick...
...Detroit rising oil prices could worsen the skid that the U.S. auto industry has suffered since the start of the year. The price increases threaten sales of profitable but fuel-thirsty vans, pickup trucks and full- size cars, including the Chevrolet Caprice and the Lincoln Town Car. That would mean further woes for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, which temporarily shuttered 45 of their 62 U.S. and Canadian plants and fired or laid off 38,000 workers during the first half of the year...
...only about 500 annually. Powered by a 400-h.p., ten-cylinder engine, the Viper will be built for speed and handling. Chrysler insiders claim that the car will be able to accelerate like a rocket sled, zooming from 0 to 160 k.p.h. in about ten seconds, faster than the Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1. The first Vipers off the line should be available late next year at a price of $30,000 to $40,000. Chrysler hopes the new vehicle will demonstrate that the company is still a creative force in the industry, despite its recent decline in sales and market...
...most damaging change in GM's 1984 reorganization was probably the dismantling of its two huge, parochial divisions, Fisher Body and GM Assembly. GM created in their place two integrated divisions, now called Buick- Oldsmobile-Cadillac (BOC) and Chevrolet-Pontiac-GM of Canada (CPC). The move may have made financial sense, but it diminished what automakers call brand character by centralizing design and engineering operations...