Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least two of the Big Three will stop '58 production in July instead of September, will drive in with the '59 models weeks ahead of schedule. General Motors plans to introduce many of its '59s in mid-Sepiember, one to two months earlier than last year. Chrysler Corp., riding in the red for 1958 (see State of Business), plans to show its 1959s by mid-October, instead of Nov. 1 as last year. Automen figured that if G.M. and Chrysler advanced their introduction dates, Ford would soon follow...
...bigger and heavier cars took honors last week in the 1958 Mobilgas Economy Run. For the second straight year, Chrysler dominated the field, winning top honors in three of the four classes v. last year's clean sweep...
After a four-day, 1,883-mile trip from Los Angeles to Galveston, Texas, the trophy for the best mileage among 29 cars went to Chrysler's Imperial Crown, driven by Mel Alsbury Jr., 28, a three-time winner. The average of his Imperial, which also won in the high-price class: 62.7188 ton miles per gallon (computed by multiplying the car's weight by the number of miles per gallon...
More notable was the performance of the Chrysler New Yorker, driven by Alsbury's brother George, 21. It not only took second place in the overall run and first in the upper-medium-price class, but it showed the best performance of all cars in straight mileage. The New Yorker, eighth heaviest car in the race, averaged 21.0217 miles per gallon to beat out all cars in every class, including the smaller and lighter cars...
Upper-Medium-Price Class. Chrysler New Yorker, 21.0217; De Soto Fireflite, 19.6573; Mercury Turnpike Cruiser, 18.8390; Mercury Park Lane, 17.4186; Oldsmobile 98, 17.4849; Buick Century, 17.6698; Edsel Citation, 17.2474; De Soto Fireflite...