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...young men were dragged from their automobile. Said he: "They stomped and stomped. I cried just like a baby." After Donald fled, Miami HeraId Reporter Earni Young witnessed more cruelty at the same site. Reported Young: "A late-model green car-I think it might have been a Chevrolet Impala-deliberately drove over one of the bodies. I think I saw it rip the man's arm off. The crowd cheered and yelled...
...life: to design, build and sell cars that will reap the highest return on the company's investment. Profits traditionally have come from volume and from trading customers up to larger, more expensive "prestige" models. Traditionally a Cadillac cost several hundred dollars more to make than a Chevrolet, but it returned GM a profit of several thousand dollars more. Detroit denies that it rejects new ideas because they are "not invented here," but the industry has been slow to adopt such innovations as disc brakes and radial tires, both extensively used in Europe for a decade. Detroit was equally...
...problem forthrightly. In July 1972, well before any shortages of oil, the company had set up an energy task force. Less than a year later it decided to shrink its car line, beginning with full-size models in the 1977 model-year, and to build new compacts like the Chevrolet Citation that would be introduced starting...
...cars inferior to those made by Japanese or West German manufacturers and that American workers are not sufficiently productive. But one Big Three plant belies such notoriety. The General Motors factory in Tarrytown, N.Y., one of the plants where the company assembles its hot-selling front-wheel-drive Chevrolet Citations, has earned the reputation of being perhaps the giant automaker's most efficient assembly facility. Tarrytown's current renown is more surprising because in the early 1970s the 55-year-old plant was infamous for having one of the worst labor-relations and poorest quality records...
...remains best placed to withstand the current tempest, and will probably be the only Big Three automaker to earn a profit this year. Its very successful X cars, such as the Chevrolet Citation and the Buick Skylark, are helping the company maintain its market share. This fall GM will introduce shrunken or downsize intermediate cars like the Chevrolet Monte Carlo and Buick Regal. Its J car is due in April 1981, and will be a sporty subcompact successor to such models as the Chevy Monza...