Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...model year, motorists will be able to buy 1973 cars at 1972 prices. In effect there will be no extra charge for the new safety and antipollution equipment required by federal law. The Price Commission is still formally considering requests for price boosts of $91 from Chrysler and $150 from American Motors, but neither company can realistically be expected to raise prices when their bigger rivals do not. G.M. and Ford cannot file new requests for price boosts until they can produce profit figures for the current quarter, which ends Sept. 30. Thus they cannot even ask for price hikes...
...Chrysler said in its ads that torsion-bar suspension gave extra "ease in handling." In substantiation, it submitted a "braking attitude test chart" measuring results in "inches of front suspension jounce" and the outcome of a "dynamic beam and twist" test expressed in quantities of "first mode resonance." What do these terms mean? Chrysler did not explain...
...platinum-treated converters that Ford may need in 1975, 1976 and 1977 models. Engelhard has close ties with South Africa's Rustenburg Platinum Mines, the world's largest. G.M. executives are known to have discussed platinum purchases with other South African producers, and Ford, G.M. and Chrysler have all consulted with the U.S. Commerce Department about possible deals to buy Soviet platinum...
Love Affair. Ford, using technology bought from West Germany's Audi-NSU-Wankel, is also extensively testing the Wankel. Chrysler officials are the least enthusiastic about a rotary revolution. Engineering Vice President Alan Loofbourrow recently predicted that the Wankel "will turn out to be one of the most unbelievable fantasies ever to hit the world auto industry." Few other auto executives would go nearly that far; almost all insist that they must still cross several important bridges-especially the higher fuel consumption problem-before putting a rotary engine into mass production...
Every morning, before Richard Sprague climbs into his black Chrysler, a bodyguard checks the car for a bomb. This is because Sprague, as first assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, has sought a first-degree murder conviction in 66 cases and got what he wanted in 65. Two convictions were against killers of United Mine Workers Official Joseph Yablonski, and word came from the minefields that there was a contract out on Sprague's life. Sprague doesn't take the threat seriously. The people who work...