Word: fastbacks
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Mustang (6) fastback coupe...
...desk to hold typewriter or work papers. Chrysler calls this Imperial "a traveling board room." The sporty Barracuda, which had been hurriedly fashioned out of a Valiant base in an effort to meet the challenge of Ford's Mustang, sold badly last year. This year Barracuda's fastback has been modified with a 'more abrupt slope (the long, tapering fast-backs are on the way out in Detroit), the back of the car has a sportier slab look, and air vents (false) have been added to the hood...
...models that radically de part from the upside-down soupspoon look that has made the Porsche one of the most popular sports cars. The new cars, one of which will also have almost a 40% boost in horsepower, are distinguished by a straighter, less sloping front and a fastback, built around a brand-new chassis...
Germany's ten manufacturers showed off 30 basic models that come in 155 different versions, all with higher horsepower than before. Notable among them: Opel's completely restyled fastback Kadett, which borrows some of its lines from the Ford Mustang, and NSU's Spider, the only car in the world powered by the Wankel engine. Twelve companies in the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan are now experimenting with the engine (which was developed in 1954 by Felix Wankel, a German engineer). The Wankel replaces conventional pistons and cylinders with a triangular rotor, has only two major...
...reign, and to surround it with the sporty accouterments and glamour that sell autos. Restyled Ramblers have already lost their boxy lines and blossomed forth in hard-tops and convertibles, with bucket seats, floor-mounted gearshifts and even a big, 8-cylinder engine that is definitely not economical. The fastback Marlin, introduced last March, is as sporty a car as Detroit manufactures today; it was rushed onto the showroom floors to give the public the message that American can be a swinging outfit...