Word: minicars
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...blue denim society has not totally triumphed yet, however-and auto profits are benefiting because it has not. Enough status-conscious buyers remain to boost sales of luxury cars, such as Cadillacs and Imperials, to record levels. Even minicar purchasers, while shunning big-car prestige, are choosing comfort and convenience along with transportation. Although prices of stripped-down minicars cluster around $2,000, the average price of those sold is considerably higher because motorists are selecting fancy options. Roughly 81% of the cars sold today contain power steering; 63% have factory-built air conditioning; 58% come with vinyl tops...
...climbed 25%, automakers insist that sometimes they can make a satisfactory profit only by shifting operations overseas. Ford and Chrysler will manufacture engines and transmissions in Europe for their new small cars, then import the parts to be fitted into U.S.-assembled cars. All parts for G.M.'s minicar, the Vega, will be made at home, but company officials plan to have the Vega assembled partly by robots in place of union workers. The robots, called Unimates, are one-armed, computer-controlled machines that G.M. will program to do welding. G.M. executives think that a Vega assembled entirely...
...like a stylized descendant of the Jeep. Not to be outdone, Westinghouse showed off a sleek "Lotus Europa" sports car. Ford had a streamlined "Lead Wedge" that has whirred across Utah's salt flats at 138 m.p.h. Two Japanese electric cars were on display along with a British minicar costing about $1,000 and already in production...
Couturier Yves Saint Laurent ordered a gold plated copper cast made of Model Veruschka's bosom, slipped it over a mannequin, and sent her down the runway; it was one way to top off a skirt. Courreges had a model roar up to the footlights in a minicar with a Plexiglas dome, and presented another wearing pingpong balls pasted on her oversized sunglasses. Cecil Beaton sketched. Lauren Bacall applauded. Katharine Hepburn hid out from photographers. Coco Chanel curled up on the salon stairway while her collection was shown and coolly surveyed the crush below. But then Chanel has been...
...year, 110,000 Japanese cars-more than twice as many as in 1967-went to American buyers. Now two more manufacturers have entered the U.S. market. Fuji Heavy Industries is offering its low-priced $1,300 Subaru, and Honda, already known for its motorcycles, is pushing a $1,400 minicar. A third manufacturer, Toyo Kogyo, expects to make its American debut later this year with a car equipped with twin rotary engines...