Word: monza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only disguised automatic transmission levers. Tachometers stare from dashboards to dazzle the Sunday driver with precious information as to how many revolutions per minute his motor is delivering. And where car nomenclature once connoted carriage-trade-victoria, brougham, landau-the new names and models now smack of high compression-Monza, Le Mans, J-TR, Spyder, Grand Prix...
...clincher came last week in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, where Germany's daring Count Wolfgang von Trips flipped off the road last year, killing himself and 15 spectators. No accidents marred this year's race. Blasting his dark-green B.R.M. (for British Racing Motors) into the lead on the very first lap, Hill poured it on for 86 laps, hitting 180 m.p.h. on the straightaway, taking the corners with precision. At the finish, he was 30 seconds ahead of the No. 2 man, the U.S.'s Richie Ginther, in another B.R.M. Hill's average...
Every U.S. auto company is contributing to-and benefiting from-this surge, but none so much as General Motors. With its standard models reinforced by the pizazz-laden Corvair Monza and the compact Chevy II, G.M.'s Chevrolet division alone has grabbed off more of the U.S. auto market (30%) than the whole Ford Motor Co. (26.2%). Between Chevrolet's runaway success and solid, though less dramatic, increases for Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick, General Motors as a whole now accounts for 52.2% of all the cars sold in the U.S. (The only company that ever did better...
...something of a dud, it appeared that Ford might grab off the lion's share of an important new market. Almost by chance, however, Chevrolet dressed up some Corvairs with pizazz features to attract customers into showrooms to look at the ordinary Corvair. With that began the Monza and the "bucket seat boom" -another example of the auto buyer's old urge to upgrade the plain and the practical...
...Challenger I, with a tuned 244-cu.-in. engine and special suspension designed to cruise at 120 m.p.h., and the Cougar 406, with gull-wing doors and a top speed of 160 m.p.h. Chevrolet's sports compact is a 150-h.p. version of the Corvair known as the Monza Spyder, and there are two special show models of the Corvette-the Shark and the Kelly...