Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cars this fall feature aerodynamic design, quick acceleration and two interchangeable engines. They are also about six inches long and cost ten bucks...
...roll into showrooms late next year. What really sent the motor moguls into orbit were signs that the Saturn pictures, along with shots of the 1993 Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird in the same issue, had been leaked to the trade magazine by an employee in GM's design studios. Unlike the grainy, long-distance spy shots that paparazzi regularly take of new models as they whiz around company test tracks, the Saturn pictures were crisp and carefully posed...
...late 1987 the name of Alan Bond was riding very high in America, and in Australia he was a hero. "Bondy," as his country called him, was the prime mover in the syndicate that funded the design, construction and testing of Australia II, the 12-meter sloop with the controversial winged keel that swept to victory over the U.S. defender off Newport in 1983, leaving, for the first time in yachting history, an empty plinth in the New York Yacht Club where the America's Cup used to stand...
While Chrysler's predicament has some surface similarities to the recessionary days of 1981-82, the current U.S. auto market is an utterly different place. American carmakers have made huge strides in improving production, quality and design. But they face a competitive threat that would have been unimaginable back then. The Japanese transplants account for 14.7% of all passenger cars sold in America, up from 8.9% two years ago. Detroit, which has seen its U.S. market share plunge from 84% in 1978 to 68% this year, is likely to lose another 8 percentage points by 1994, according to a study...
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