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...last offered, this time hard-pressed dealers are being asked to bear some of the cost. For example, buyers of Oldsmobile Cutlass Supremes and Buick Regals will get $700 back-$400 from GM and $300 from the dealer. Ford's rebate plan, which ranges from $610 for a Fairmont to $1,769 on the four-door Mark VI, is similar...
...beginning of February, Chevrolet dealers had a 98-day supply of compact Citations, and Pontiac showrooms were backed up with 92-day inventories of the small front-wheel-drive Phoenix. Ford dealers were stuck with 100-day-plus backlogs on nine separate models ranging from the Mustang and Fairmont to the Mark VI. Sixty-day levels are considered ideal...
...auto industry's mainstay since 1954, will be virtually dead. Replacing it will be smaller power plants such as the L-4 and V-6 engines in the X-cars. Moreover, almost none of the new U.S.-made models will be larger than today's compact Ford Fairmont. Unfortunately, now that cars will no longer resemble fortresses on wheels, there will be less protection in an accident. Two weeks ago, NHTSA reported that ten out of twelve small cars failed a test in which they crashed into a wall at 35 m.p.h...
...there is now no longer any doubt that big cars are dead. "The large cars that we've known really belong in a museum," says Ford's Caldwell. By 1985 Detroit will be ready with a complete line of autos no larger than the compact Ford Fairmont. But the enormous complexities of the industry prevent it from modernizing any faster than that. New small cars with totally redesigned engines and transmissions require new plants and facilities to build them. The time from drawing board to showroom floor can take up to seven years...
...Francisco, Victor Bergeron, owner of the 20-restaurant Trader Vic's chain, sent a cable to all members forbidding them to buy or sell either product. Then he personally smashed his last six bottles of Stolichnaya vodka. The five Fairmont hotels throughout the country also announced that they will not stock Russian vodka, or caviar from the Soviet Union or Iran. Though no figures are available, the boycott will have little effect. Most vodka consumed in the U.S. is domestically distilled; the liquor from the Soviet Union sells in limited quantity at high prices...