Word: corvairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other three are look-alikes in their corporate backgrounds. All are graduate engineers who have been G.M. divisional heads. Cole came from Chevrolet, where he was best known for having developed the Corvair; though the car has had recent safety and sales problems, it is still counted a success in G.M. circles. An articulate man with an outgoing personality, Cole should be the favorite for the big job if G.M. is anxious to polish its public relations image, which became somewhat tarnished under austere Fred Donner. But Cole has a black mark on his record: he was less than stringent...
...merely a hair-raising path through the city streets of Monte Carlo, barely wide enough to allow one car to pass another, and replete with such hazards as a curving tunnel in the middle of a 120-m.p.h. straightaway and two hairpins. It is hard enough to steer a Corvair around a 180° turn, let alone a 400-h.p. Formula I racing car. In the past 15 years, the winner's speed has climbed from 58.2 m.p.h. to 75.8 m.p.h...
...year off the development time of the Barracuda in order to get it on the road this year. Lincoln-Mercury has introduced the Cougar to fill the price gap between Mustang and Thunderbird. Chevrolet this fall introduced its Camaro, a frank copy of Mustang, to go along with the Corvair Monza which had been its interim lower-priced specialty car. In February, Pontiac, which already has the Tempest GTO model, will bring out its brand-new Firebird-also being built in a crash program-as the twelfth entry in the specialty field...
...Nader's chief target had been G.M.'s Corvair, whose 1960-63 models' rear wheels had a tendency to "tuck under," supposedly causing rolls and skids. Last week in Los Angeles, G.M. for the first time lost a damage suit involving Corvair design; a jury awarded $66,000 in damages to two passengers in a Corvair that in 1960 skidded into a roadside culvert and overturned. Corvair's record in suits of this type is now 1 lost, 3 won, 17 dismissed or settled out of court, and 133 pending...
Last week still another Corvair damage case was ruled upon. A Los Angeles judge decided in favor of G.M. in a $250,000 suit resulting from the 1960 death of a 16-year-old boy. The judge, who observed that the lad had had little experience as a driver and had been speeding, found that "the Corvair matches a standard of safety which does not create any unreasonable risk to an average driver...