Word: corvair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CORVAIR COMPACT BUS will be introduced by Chevrolet this fall to compete with Volkswagen's junior-sized bus, selling at the rate of 36,000 annually in U.S. this year. To be called the Greenbrier, the six-cylinder Chevrolet bus will closely resemble the Volkswagen in appearance, sell for about...
...management staff and such a low break-even point that he can make far more per compact than the Big Three, whose invasion of the market has not hurt him. Rambler sales have risen from 6.3% of total industry sales just before the advent of Falcon, Corvair and Valiant to 7.1% today -and are still climbing. Last week Rambler delivered its 300,000th unit for the 1960 model year, is running two months ahead of last year's record production and chalking up sales 25% over the last model year. In two years Romney has doubled production. By fall...
...compact, the Tempest. The first four-cylinder engine in a G.M. car in 30 years, the new water-cooled engine will generate 130 h.p. It will be mounted at a 45° angle to provide the Tempest with a low hood line. The Tempest will be similar to the Corvair in styling, but will be five to ten inches longer. The Tempest will also feature a trans-axle, a driveshaft system that has the engine up front but the transmission and differential in the rear...
GENERAL MOTORS' two other new com pacts, the Oldsmobile F85 and the Buick Special, will be scaled-down versions of their big-car brothers, but bigger and more powerful than the Corvair. Unlike the Corvair, their engines will be up front. For the two cars. G.M. has developed a new eight-cylinder. 145-h.p. water-cooled, part-aluminum engine...
Chevrolet is planning a two-door Corvair convertible built largely on the same body shell as the present Corvair. Factory suggested list price...