Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dark-suited industrialists who stood with bowed heads, the unusual invocation by Detroit City Councilman David Eberhard was as right and natural as the Pledge of Allegiance. The prayer opened the weekly luncheon of the Economic Club of Detroit, the automobile capital of the world, and never before have the men who put the U.S. on wheels had more reason to seek divine intervention. Over the next half dozen years, the edgy managers of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors will need all the help they...
...meet the public's and the Government's demand for cars that are less thirsty as well as less polluting, Detroit has no choice except to accelerate its pace of change. Says General Motors President Elliott ("Pete") Estes: "We have made tremendous progress over the last four years. But in the next five years we're going to make that look like child's play...
Next month GM will roll out its basic lean cars for the 1980s. In the splashiest and costliest auto introduction in history, the company on April 19 will start selling its new compact X cars. Departing from the secrecy that surrounds most new models in Detroit, GM added to the hype by allowing plenty of tantalizing pre-introductory glimpses of these autos. Almost everything in them, from axles to windshields, has been redesigned to save weight and spare gas, and the company has poured $2.5 billion into the project so far. The stubby X car will replace four...
Like some other recent new models, the X cars will have front-wheel drive; with FWD, engine power is delivered to the front wheels to pull the car. European manufacturers have long been using FWD, but the U.S. industry began and grew up with rear-wheel drive, and Detroit's chiefs regarded changing to FWD as prohibitively expensive...
Underestimations not with standing, superman Stiles leaped 17-ft 3-in. in a single bound to become the national collegiate pole vault champion last weekend in Detroit...