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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Yachts and autos-the America's Cup races off Newport, R.I., and the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Italy...
...Britain's John Surtees, 30: The Italian Grand Prix at Monza, piloting his red Italian Ferrari around the banked, 278-mile course at a record average speed of 129.1 m.p.h. It was the second victory in a month for aging (66) Automaker Enzo Ferrari, gave him a shot at the Grand Prix manufacturers' championship that he once monopolized but has not won since 1961. It also gave ex-Motorcyclist Surtees 9 points toward the drivers' championship, moved him into third place behind Britain's Graham Hill and Scotland's defending champion Jimmy Clark, both...
...word of the Mustang first leaked out, General Motors began to work on a fastback Corvair for introduction this month, later decided against the crash approach, and now maintains a monolithic silence. Its Chevrolet Corvette is too expensive to compete with the Mustang, and its rear-engined, lightly powered Monza might be thrown off balance by the weight of a bigger motor out back; this also applies to the experimental Monza GT. Result: G.M.'s competitor for the Mustang, Detroit believes, may be built around the front-engined Chevy II. Ready to take full advantage of his lead...
...build, because it can't be a volume car. It's too far out.' " Iacocca decided that he did not want a car to compete against foreign sports cars, which sold only about 80,000 a year in the U.S., but against Chevrolet's successful Monza, which was selling about 250,000 a year. After a competition between the Ford, the Lincoln-Mercury, and the corporate styling studios, Iacocca looked at all three together and picked out a Ford Division model that somehow seemed to pop out at him: "It was the only...
...Shrine. Having been burned so badly with the ill-fated Edsel, whose styling it unaccountably failed to market research before its introduction, Ford this time conducted 14 studies on the Mustang, ranging from interviews with Monza owners to name and pricing studies. Its staff of 20, the industry's largest, found, among other things, that the car's outside appearance ranks first with the under-25 crowd and that four seaters are preferred 16-to-l among sports-car owners...