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Actually, VW has been rather slow in meeting the new need for spartan transportation. While the company was busy promoting its relatively new 1500 fastback sedan, G.M.'s and Ford's German subsidiaries were challenging the beetle at its own game. Sales of G.M.'s small, $1,360 Opel Kadett soared 28% last year, after a 6% drop in 1965. Ford last September successfully reintroduced its $1,322 Taunus 15M, a model it had dropped in 1959. When his 1200 gets into full production, Volkswagen's Nordhoff plans to skip the rich U.S. market, which accounts...
...last week rolled out its first 1967 Barracuda, a sleek new car with long hood, short trunk, fancy waffle grille and such flashy features as a wall-to-wall rear window, snap-open gas-tank cover, wood-paneled dashboard. The Barracuda, which began in 1964 as a jerry-built fastback body mounted on an old-fashioned Valiant chassis, up to now has been a pretty tame fish in a very turbulent pond. The completely new Barracuda, whose prices will start at approximately $2,500, comes out just in time to catch the hottest new car market since compacts first made...
...personal tragedy." Willie plays it dirty. Before the insurance doctors examine his client, he needles his left leg and right arm with enough novocain to numb a mastodon. Willie plays it go, man, go. Borrowing against his hocus hopes, he picks up a fastback Mustang, a sackful of custom-tailored suits, a foxy set of fox furs for his fat-kneed wife. And when the insurance lawyers are ready to bargain, Willie makes them sit on wastebaskets and haggle like rug peddlers till in collapse they agree to pay his client...
...Porsche's 91 IS is virtually the same as last year's 911, except for a new top speed increased from 130 m.p.h. to 140-plus m.p.h.. thanks to a 20%-more-powerful engine under its clean, sloping fastback...
...Only the Dodge Charger and the Mustang fastback bucked the trend and will sell a shade lower. But this has been accomplished by turning several standard items into option als for which the buyer now must pay extra...