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...Cadillac stepped up horsepower (250 to 285 on standard models) and brought out two new hardtop models. Optional equipment: a new aluminum grille available in either silver or gold...
...cars, which will come out in mid-October, represent a $175 million face-lifting job on the 1955 models. Chief body change: high, straightaway lines on the rear fenders and bigger taillights. In addition, all lines will have a new four-door, hardtop model, pushbutton selectors on the dashboard for automatic transmissions, "lifeguard" door latches to prevent doors from popping open in accidents, and optional seat belts. Plymouth will have a new, higher-powered engine. Fanciest gadget in the line is a "Highway Hi-Fi," a CBS record player that can be mounted just below the center of the instrument...
...Tried out during his Philadelphia trip a specially designed seven-passenger Chrysler Crown Imperial that provides protection against the elements and still gives the public an unrestricted view. The center supports had been removed from the limousine, giving it the clean look of a hardtop convertible, the rear seats were pushed forward, and a sliding roof installed, so that Ike, standing on a platform, was plainly visible to 25,000 cheering Philadelphians who lined the streets...
DREAM CAR from this year's General Motors Motorama is moving to the assembly line. Cadillac's "Eldorado Brougham," a low-slung, four-door hardtop, will soon go into production to compete with Rolls-Royce. Price...
...cars of the future. But this time there was a difference. In past years the dream cars were almost all flashy sports models; this year they looked as if they might be next year's production models. Pontiac, for instance, featured the Strato-Star, a six-passenger hardtop; Oldsmobile showed off its Delta, a four-passenger hardtop. Flashiest of the fleet was the LaSalle II sports roadster, a low-slung (42.8-in.-high) model with a reinforced glass-fiber body and an experimental 150-h.p., V-6 engine that G.M. engineers hope will enable them to cut down...