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...motel. Eerily for me, many of the scenes take place in the shopping centers, auto dealerships and driveways of my home town of Birmingham, also home of the rocky marriage of Adam and Erica Trenton. Adam, the book's hero, is reportedly modelled on GM Vice President John DeLorean, known in the industry as a young Turk because he used to drive foreign sports cars until successive promotions forced him to start driving Chevrotlets. At any rate, Adam and Erica are suffering from the Great American Angst because each has begun to find inanimate objects more sexually attractive than...
...Detroit, John Z. DeLorean, head of G.M.'s Chevrolet Division, reflected the auto industry's exuberant belief that much of the added spending will be for new cars, which should be about $200 cheaper under Nixon's program. Chevrolet plans to have a record 200,000 new cars in showrooms when the 1972s go on sale Sept...
...destined to join the long list of others -textiles, radios, shoes, barber chairs -that can no longer freely and vigorously compete against lower wage foreign manufacturers. In July, imported cars captured an alltime high 15.6% of the nation's auto market. Last week Chevrolet Chief John Z. DeLorean observed that U.S. wage rates are 2.1 times as high as Germany's, 2.8 times Britain's and four times Japan's. Though wages abroad are leaping ahead faster in percentage terms than those in the U.S., American wages are so much higher to begin with that...
...secret for beating Volkswagen is quality," says Chevrolet General Manager John Z. DeLorean. Pinto and Vega offer newer styling and better handling characteristics than the Volkswagen. The cheaper Pinto reflects Ford's conviction that VW must also be met head-on in terms of price...
...GMini. G.M. may recoup in this market when it introduces a new small car this summer. The car, so far called the XP-887, was late in getting an official name. G.M. President Edward Cole wanted to call it the "Lynx," while Chevrolet's general manager, John Z. DeLorean, held out for "GMini." As of last week the final choice had not yet been made known...