Word: complainers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small foreign car has not been burgeoning; since the U.S. compacts were introduced, sales of foreign cars have taken a sharp drop. Says A. C. Robbins, a Beverly Hills Chrysler-Plymouth dealer: "The manufacturers are trying to make a car for every $25 of the market." Some dealers complain that this proliferation confuses not only the customer but the salesman, too. Often compacts with different names are remarkably similar. General Motors' Olds F85 and Buick Special both have the same body shell and almost the same motor; Ford's Falcon and Comet have the same engine; the Chrysler...
Many dealers complain bitterly that Detroit has overproduced both in variety of models and cars, forced them to take more cars than they need so that the giants can outsell their competitors. Dealers point to their own slim earnings and to General Motors' 8% net profit last year. "When it became apparent we were in trouble," complains Denver's Bob Jones, "I went to the Ford people and tried to pull this dealership down to 75 units a month. But they said no, that I had to sell 160 new cars and 40 trucks each month. They...
...face it," says Sales Manager Joe Bensley of Los Angeles' Bruin Motor Co., "service in most places is lousy." Bensley -who is known for good service-and other dealers blame the factory, complain that Detroit inspects only one in ten cars, sends dealers cars that take two or three days to get into shape, gives them an insufficient allowance to do the job. "The dealer just can't do it in a volume business," says Bensley. "He has to push out cars as fast as he can. The customer finds all kinds of things wrong with...
...Ceylon, motorists complain incessantly of the high fuel prices of Western firms; as a result, an official Ceylonese delegation returned from Moscow last week with a deal for cheaper Russian...
...section to another in a thoroughly natural sequence, the declamatory motives and the "row" providing unity. But his intentions aside, greater differentiation of these recapitulations might have given better climaxes. And at the end he parades down the piano with alternating registers in just that dulling fashion his critics complain...