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...into a comfortable position where your spine is straight--you can relax--eyes open, resting on the horizon. Now the question is, 'What do you do with your thoughts...
...buyers seem to be showing solid interest in the subcompact Omni and its nearly identical (except for trim) Horizon sibling. Chrysler hopes that brisk orders will make up for a turndown in sales for its compact Aspen and Volare models. At 30 m.p.g., the Omni and Horizon exceed federal fuel economy standards for 1985, thus putting Chrysler in a good position for taking direct aim at Japanese competition (Toyota, Datsun) and Volkswagen's Rabbit, which will begin rolling off a VW-built assembly line in Pennsylvania in April...
...general, a calm born of renewed certainty has overtaken the industry. A number of new weapons systems are on the horizon. Moreover proponents of the B-l-notably Rockwell International, which still has 6,000 people at work on prototypes-are lobbying furiously on behalf of their aircraft, and hope that the supersonic bomber project may be revived. Commercial airlines seem content to replace aging planes with existing models or variations that are more advanced in terms of fuel economy and noise...
...woods, these Americans are, for the most part, culturally disfranchised. They were raised on the old American popular culture, on the myth of the individual who is the master of his own fate, truckles to no man or institution, and whose possibilities are as limitless as a Great Plains horizon. Now, however, employers, unions, governments regulate their lives. Mortgage obligations and even rising Social Security deductions hem them in. The open road, down which escape always seems possible, has become a featureless eight-lane interstate, with a Smokey Bear lurking at every cloverleaf. For those people, fantasies of the free...
...most bullish of all. Says Executive Vice President R.K. Brown: "In five years, when the entire industry will have spent $50 billion to rebuild an entire new fleet of cars for the North American public, people will look back and say it all started with Omni and Horizon." These are two snappy, speedy, lightweight cars that Chrysler is now showing off to the press, and will put on sale in mid-January...