Word: corvair
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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Ever since plans for the new compact cars got around Detroit, competitors of General Motors Corp. have been kicking at the rear engine G.M. will use in its Corvair. Chrysler Corp. President Lester Lum Colbert announced that Chrysler's small-car offering, the Valiant, would have its engine "up front, where it belongs." Ford Motor Co., whose small Falcon will also have a front engine, launched TV commercials demonstrating that an arrow weighted at the back end will fly erratically and miss the target, but that a "properly weighted" (i.e., heavy at the front) arrow will go straight...
...MODELS will be introduced earlier this fall than in other years, with 16 of 19 models scheduled by first half of October. Ford's Falcon is expected to bow first, followed by Chevrolet's small car, Corvair, and other General Motors makes, American Motors, Chrysler and Studebaker-Packard...