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...place in production (topped only by Chevrolet and the big Ford), grabbed some 30% of the compact market with sales of 100,000. It is rapidly approaching the well-established Rambler, which holds first place in compact sales with 112,700 to date. Production of both Chevy's Corvair and Chrysler's Valiant is still being stepped...
...horsepower race, which Detroit likes to pretend does not exist in standard cars, is off to a fast start in the compacts. Chevrolet first offered an optional power pack, boosting the horsepower of the Corvair from 80 to 95. Last week Ford disclosed that it will offer an optional 100-h.p. engine for the 90-h.p. now in the Falcon. Chrysler will do even better. It will offer a 148-h.p. engine for its Valiant which is now the most powerful compact (101-h.p.) among the Big Three...
...door Corvair coupe with the same 80-h.p. engine as in the four-door, and a factory list price of $1,810 for the standard model and $1,870 for the deluxe, $50 under the four-door price. Optional equipment: a four-speed transmission and power pack, which should add an additional...
...Three to enter the small-car race made a strong bid last week to catch up in a hurry. Into production went Chrysler Corp.'s compact Valiant station wagon, well ahead of Ford, which will not have a station wagon on the market until next spring, and Corvair, lagging far behind, which will not have one until fall...
...compact cars got off to a fast start. Wards Automotive Reports last week announced that compact-car sales for October totaled 86,244 units, or a hefty 16.4% of the overall auto market, compared to 5.6% in October 1958. Of that big new share, Chevrolet's Corvair, Ford's Falcon and Chrysler's Valiant carved out a 48.1% slice to challenge American Motors and Studebaker-Packard. In their first month U.S. compact cars outsold imported cars by nearly...