Word: gordini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped-in profile-like an inverted T. Berlin's aerotrain resembles a sleek silver bus, rides less than an inch above the rail on a cushion of air produced by two 50-h.p. Renault Gordini engines, propels and brakes itself with a 260-h.p. jet-booster aircraft engine rear-mounted on its roof...
...Renault's boxy, $2,760 R-8 Gordini, which also has a smaller engine (103 h.p.) than a Volkswagen, lives up to its flashy racing headlights by being able to hit 109 m.p.h...
Renault is also getting over the blow. It has taken back most of the 3,000 workers laid off when the slump began, has its output back to normal. To spur U.S. sales, it put on sale the Gordini, a more powerful version of the Dauphine. Renault and the other foreign car makers think that the slump that hit them last year has bottomed...