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Nonetheless, Detroit hopes that the rebate plans will kick off a spring sales surge and help soften consumer resistance to the high prices on 1981 model cars. A recent survey of car sales in southern Ohio by Chevrolet Dealer Ebb Glockner concluded that buyers were balking at paying more than...
...Ford had to face one undeniable fact: even once popular fuel-efficient small cars are not selling. At the beginning of February, Chevrolet dealers had a 98-day supply of compact Citations, and Pontiac showrooms were backed up with 92-day inventories of the small front-wheel-drive Phoenix. Ford dealers were stuck with 100-day-plus backlogs on nine separate models ranging from the Mustang and Fairmont to the Mark VI. Sixty-day levels are considered ideal...
...Three have been forced to hike the price of their fuel-efficient models mostly to pay for the $80 billion that they are spending to design and produce them. But Detroit may have pushed prices up too far and too fast. Says Marvin Alpern, a New York City Chevrolet dealer: "People come in and look at the prices, and they are shocked...
...this year, its orders have dropped 15.7%. Nevertheless, the Chevrolet Chevette and the Chevrolet Citation are among the country's bestselling models...
...indicted for violating the civil rights of two black men Theodore Fields, 20, and David Martin 18, who were shot to death in August while jogging with two teen-age white girls. Franklin had been arrested two months ago in Florence, Ky., but had soon escaped, leaving behind a Chevrolet camaro, two rifles and two handguns. Said he of the charges: "They are all trumped up because of my white racist views...