Word: corvair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Which last week placed first in the Mobilgas Economy Run from Los Angeles to Chicago, with an average of 32.68 miles a gallon. Other winners in their classes: Corvair Monza for four and six-cylinder compacts with automatic transmission (29.35 m.p.g.), Buick Special for eight-cylinder compacts (25.09), Plymouth Savoy for standard-sized cars (23.15), Ford Fairlane for low-priced V-8s (21.33), Chrysler Newport for medium-priced eights (19.9), and Cadillac for high-priced eights...
...cars. Chrysler Corp. held the line on its Plymouths and Dodges and all but two series of the Imperial. It reduced the tags on its Valiant compacts by $19 on the economy series and $34 on the luxury models; Chevrolet trimmed $35 off its Corvair line. Pontiac introduced its new four-cylinder Tempest compact, which has a transaxle-a combination of transmission and axle in the rear-that almost completely eliminates the front-seat transmission hump. It set the factory list price for the four-door sedan at $1,975, or $200 below prices of the Buick Special and Oldsmobile...
...General Motors' testing grounds at Detroit one day last week, Chevrolet rolled its 1961 models for a press preview of the most complete line of compacts of any U.S. automaker. The new Corvair line includes all but a convertible, extends even into compact buses, until now turned out only by European automakers. The new models...
...Corvair sedan is virtually unchanged in appearance. Major mechanical improvement: an air heater that takes its heat from the engine replaces the gasoline heater, which sometimes costs Corvair drivers as much as eight miles per gallon in winter...
Chevy Chief Edward N. Cole is not only optimistic about Chevy's sales but about those for the whole industry. Chevy is heading toward its best year in history, has sold more than 1,200,500 cars, up 15% over 1959, with the Corvair accounting for almost all of the increase. Looking ahead, Ed Cole predicts sales of 7,000,000 for the auto industry in 1961, including some 450,000 foreign-car sales, or about 200,000 more than expected this year...