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...Pinto that was carrying Judy Ann Ulrich, 18, her sister Lynn Marie, 16, and cousin Donna Ulrich, 18, to volleyball practice in Goshen, Ind., on Aug. 10,1978. As they were headed north on five-lane U.S. Route 33, their car was struck from behind by a 1972 Chevrolet van. The Pinto collapsed like a concertina; its fuel tank ruptured, and the car burst into flames. Lynn Marie and Donna died in the wreck; Judy Ann, who had been driving, was pulled out alive but died within hours at a hospital. Unknown to the girls, Ford had two months earlier...
...first rebates of modern times to customers, and it repeated the rebates last year. In Kansas City and Cincinnati last month it began dispensing checks of $50 and $25 respectively to anyone who first test drives a Chrysler product and then buys a car -any car, even a Chevrolet. The promotions all aim to get the potential buyer behind the wheel of a Chrysler. Once he is there, asserts Vice President John R. Givens, there is a better-than-even chance that he will buy one of the company's cars. Certainly Chrysler is beginning to benefit from...
...carmakers still sell more small autos in the U.S. than foreign manufacturers do, they command only 63% of this market, which now accounts for more than half of all cars sold and is growing fast. The top-selling small models are still U.S. products: the Ford Fairmont and the Chevrolet Citation among the compacts, and the Chevette and Chrysler's Omnis and Horizons among the subcompacts. But the third and fourth bestsellers in the subcompact category are the Toyota Corolla and the Datsun...
Necessity forces creativity, in Grossman's view. Necessity was the ultimate energy source that propelled him into leasing. The family auto dealership had branched out so widely in the early 1960s that Chevrolet would not grant it more franchises in greater Minneapolis. But Grossman figured out that he could get as many cars as he wanted, if he leased-not sold-them to large companies...
...million on operations in the third quarter. Still stuck with 330,000 of the 1979 model autos and trucks, GM has started its own incentives of $100 to $400 per vehicle for dealers. Yet no come-ons are needed for small models. People attempting to buy the gas-sipping Chevrolet Citation and other GM "X-cars" have waited six months or more for delivery...