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...with high-powered engines were the knights templar of the American highway in the early 1960s. Inspired by the sports car craze, Detroit automakers created a new breed of small, racy, relatively inexpensive "sports compact" cars for young and old alike. The first of the new group, the Ford Mustang, made a fast breakaway in 1964. It was rapidly followed by competing cars whose names evoked feelings of adventure and even danger: Plymouth's Barracuda, Chevrolet's Camaro, Pontiac's Firebird, American Motors' Javelin, Mercury's Cougar, and the Dodge Charger (later called the Challenger...
...change? For one thing, the sports compacts got too big and expensive. Since 1964, the Mustang has grown 8 in. longer, 6 in. wider, and 630 Ibs. heavier, and its price has risen by $400, to about $2,800. Moreover, Government-required pollution-control devices are making the sporty cars sluggish. The toughest blow has come from the insurance companies, which have steadily raised the premiums on drivers of "high-performance" cars, including the sports compacts, because they-or at least their drivers-tend to be accident prone...
Shift in the Mix. Some auto-industry observers believe that Chrysler will drop both the Challenger and Barracuda next year. Though the Mustang and Camaro will probably be around a little longer, the end of the sports compact is in sight. Last week Ford temporarily closed down its Dearborn assembly plant, which turns out Mustangs and Cougars. The reason: to add faster-selling cars to the plant's product mix as the sports compacts decline...
...horse is the only animal that pays for its grazing by reseeding the area over which it grazes. Seed passing through the mustang's alimentary canal will sprout more quickly than otherwise is the case. Not only that, the humus forms a mulch that protects the sprouting seed until roots are sent deep enough into the soil for the new plant to live through the hot, dry period that follows the spring season...
...that man must always try to oppress the free, tame the wild and humble the proud? There is one thing, however, he cannot take from the mustang -its beauty...