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...Chevrolet expects to sell 1,100,000 cars this year, enough to keep it the world's No. 1 car. The '41s have thrown out running boards and the Master 85 series of last year. Prices from $712 to $995 include two-tone exteriors and interiors, vacuum-operated tops for sport models, locks on both front doors...
...question: "Are independent motormakers doomed?" Mason's answer is the Ambassador 600, representing $7,000,000 of development costs and priced $731 and up, to compete directly with Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth. The Ambassador 600 (three years in the making) is the only completely new car in the 1941 lineup. Its six cylinders are ballyhooed to give 25 to 30 miles a gallon. All four wheels are independently sprung. Body and chassis are one piece (no squeaks); one-piece rear fenders almost covering the wheels are new to U. S. motorists...
...Ford Motor Co. led General Motors and Chrysler Corp. (producers of Pontiac, Dodge, Oldsmobile, De Soto, Chevrolet and Plymouth-other sixes). In 1940 Ford Motor Co. ranked after them...
TIME, Sept. 9, p. 69, says, "Other sixes, especially Chevrolet and Plymouth, have cut into Ford's market, reduced him from first place in 1930 to third...
According to car registration figures for 1940, Chevrolet is first, Ford second, Plymouth third. How come...