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...model year, AMC's share of the market inched ahead from 3.2% to 3.4%, largely because of the popularity of its smaller cars. Moreover, vows AMC Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr., 57, the Yale-educated auto man who has been the company's front-seat driver for five years, "We're not satisfied with that." As if to underscore his determination, AMC this week announced that it will reopen fairly soon a plant in Kenosha, Wis., that has been shut down for nearly two years. It will produce about 200 cars...
...pricing problems of General Motors in those days." Now that wage and price controls are back, G.M. faces some of the same problems, and its directors want Gerstenberg again to try to raise earnings in a Government-restricted, profit-squeezed economy. Only this time he will be the front-seat driver. To replace James M. Roche, who must retire this month when he reaches 65, the G.M. board last week selected the slight, self-assured Gerstenberg, 62, as chairman and chief executive of the world's largest corporation...
...years ago," says Brock Yates, a van buff who is an editor at Car and Driver, vans were dangerously primitive. "They had solid front axles, drum brakes, poor weight distribution and were unsafe and unstable. They blew around in crosswinds. But now the car companies are improving suspensions and steering, increasing the power and installing better brakes. They've also moved the engine forward to give more protection to the driver and front-seat passengers.* Now, riding in front is not like dangling your feet over the front bumper...
...tooling along at 60 m.p.h. down the autostrada between Rome and Florence when it hit an icy patch on the road. The car slammed into a lane divider, then caromed across the highway and pounded into a wall overlooking a 200-ft. ravine. Just before the crash, the front-seat passenger, Film Director Franco Zeffirelli, flung out his arm in a gallant gesture toward the driver. "My one thought was to save her face," he said later. As it turned out, Driver Gina Lollobrigida picked up no more than a bruise on the left cheekbone of her pretty face...
...models will probably cost up to $130 more than the '67s. At least part of the price increase is attributable to the mounting list of safety features, which now number about 20. One noteworthy addition this year is improved control over exhaust emission. Still left undecided is whether front-seat shoulder harnesses will be mandatory on all new cars starting Jan. 1. The National Traffic Safety Bureau had issued the order, but recently its members viewed a disturbing G.M. test film of a simulated car crash. At impact, the lap straps did not prevent the heads of dummies...