Word: cordoba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Please put things in perspective. Ham Jordan's "gas-guzzling" Cordoba [July 23] gets the same E.P.A. mileage as some Alfa Romeo Spyder and Datsun 280Z models, and better mileage than some Porsche 928 and Mercedes 450 SL models...
While White House Aide Hamilton Jordan was huddling with his boss up at Camp David, searching for some answers to the gas crisis, the Washington metropolitan police department last week found Hamilton's own gas-guzzling white Chrysler Cordoba parked near his home in Northwest Washington...
...Cordoba blue...
...sales last year leaped 31% over 1975, exceeding even GM's 28% gain. The company's revival rested largely on three handsomely styled, scaled-down autos: the Volaré, which sold 311,000 and the Aspen (232,000), which are both compacts, and the intermediate-size Cordoba (175,500), which packs a lot of luxury into a fairly small package...
Chrysler lost $260 million in 1975 and so would not have had the money to make extensive changes this year even if its officials had wanted to. They did not; back solidly in the black, thanks largely to the success of the intermediate Cordoba and the compacts-Plymouth Volare and Dodge Aspen-Chrysler is tinkering with the three only a little. Volare, for example, gets a "super six" engine that is 20% more fuel efficient than...