Word: cutlass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some months now, Hugh Downs has been proclaiming on national television that he got 19.7 m.p.g. driving a Ford LTD from Phoenix to Los Angeles. Cadillac advertises that its cars get up to 15.8 m.p.g., and Oldsmobile claims 17.6 m.p.g. for its Cutlass...
Both the Cadillac and Cutlass low m.p.g. figures, like many others that automakers proclaim, were achieved on proving grounds, scarcely much of a test of what motorists can expect in normal driving. One indication: Chevrolet -which commendably has stayed out of the race to advertise mileage figures -found last year that four of its Impalas got 18 m.p.g. on proving grounds...
...Chrissie's only luxuries are an expanded wardrobe and a new Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme with a stereo tape deck, a gift from a tournament sponsor. Otherwise, says her mother, "the most notable difference is that in stead of buying $1 souvenirs for her brothers and sisters when she travels, she'll spend...