Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...windows of the new cars. The average 1975 car costs about $450 more than the average 1974 model; over the past twelve months price rises have added a total of $1,000 to the cost of the typical new car. More increases are ahead, including a second round that Chrysler will announce on its 1975 models soon. Chrysler claims that as a result of steady rises in its bills for labor and materials, it has been absorbing $250 of "unrecovered" costs on every car that it builds. The company plans temporary layoffs of 4,000 workers at a plant...
...still substantial-and probably unprecedented -$416 a car. The popular Chevy Vega, an economy car, wul go up $294 to around $2,800-25% more than at the start of the 1974 model year. Still, GM's action was enough to stop heavy hints from Ford Motors and Chrysler that they might raise prices even more than GM had. Now, both companies will probably limit their increases...
...Chrysler...
...combined the top 50 for the first time in its August issue, published this week. Of the world's largest industrials, 24 are based in the U.S. Ten of the top twelve are American. Indeed, three of the top five are Detroit's General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. Half of the top dozen have headquarters in New York City or its suburbs...
Early next year American Motors plans to bring out a "luxury" version of its successful Gremlin subcompact at about $4,000. Chrysler will introduce two "personal luxury cars," the Charger SE and the Cordoba. Both will carry price tags ranging from $5,500 to $6,560; in style and size, they will most closely resemble Ford's Thunderbird...