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...pictorial evidence of how the sibling rivalries within the nation's biggest manufacturing company can spur its individual divisions. Two years ago, when Buick was given $50 million by G.M. to build the Riviera hardtop as G.M.'s official answer to Ford's Thunderbird, Pontiac and Chevrolet bosses went off and sulked, then decided to build T-Bird competitors of their...
Fastback is a big word in Detroit this year. It denotes a car whose silhouette flows from windshield to rear bumper in a continuous, rounded, convex curve. Chevrolet's completely redesigned Corvette hardtop is a fastback. So is the Studebaker Avanti (TIME, April 13). Ford calls its '63 Comet and Falcon hard-tops fastbacks, but they are really only "semi-fastbacks" because their rear windows break the curve...
...Culligan, "I have been able to erase my so-called mind. An executive simply talks at me, and for some reason I am able to retain it." Culligan polished off most of the auto companies in a single day: breakfast with Ford, a morning meeting with Chrysler, lunch with Chevrolet, cocktails and dinner with Cadillac...
...Detroit assembly lines began to close for the annual model changeover, U.S. auto production in 1962 reached 4,000,000 cars-nearly 1,000,000 ahead of the same time last year. Lion's share of this booming market has gone to the standard-sized Chevrolet, which is rolling toward sales of 1,000,000 1962 cars this year. Ford, which usually runs neck and neck with Chevy, is far behind, with production of its standard-sized Galaxie barely topping 400,000. (Counting all models, Ford has produced 842,000 cars since January, v. 1,300,000 for Chevy...
...been expected to be zinging along at an annual rate of better than $565 billion by June, rose only $7 billion in the second quarter to a disappointing $552 billion. Only in Detroit did the prospects look continuingly bright: although auto sales were unseasonably low in June, Ford, Chevrolet and Rambler all reported uncommonly high sales for the first ten days of July...