Word: mustangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filled rooms and ask me how to run the auto business. What most of us want is a small, good-looking, economical car, as demonstrated by our eagerness to buy the compacts. Since they've made those bigger and bigger, we've stopped buying them. I notice Mustang sales haven't dropped...
...biggest difference between Ford and G.M. this year concerns small, sporty cars. Ford's spunky Mustang has climbed to third place among all types, with sales up 11% to 211,793, and its success will probably earn for its creator, Group Vice President Lee lacocca, the presidency of Ford some day. G.M.'s scarcely competitive Corvair has been damaged so badly by criticism of the safety of its 196,063 models that sales are off 55% to 38,156, and its flop has hardly helped the ambitions of its creator, G.M. Executive Vice President Ed Cole. Nobody...
Other than the Mustang, the best performers this year are sporty intermediate-size models and some luxury cars. The fastest risers-Chevelle, Chevy II, Tempest, Riviera, Fairlane, Lincoln, Belvedere, Coronet-were all restyled for '66. The largest numerical declines have been among some of Detroit's big, bread-and-butter cars-the Plymouth Fury, the standard Ford and G.M.'s Chevrolet. All of them had simply been face-lifted for '66, but they will be completely restyled for '67, thus may fare better...
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Astro Couch. The foreign cars have obviously gotten the message of Ford's Mustang: a sports car is now a family car. Germany's Bavarian Motor Works showed a hot little $2,500 sedan, designed especially for the U.S. market.* Britain's Jaguar introduced its XKE 2 + 2, nine inches longer than the two-passenger model, which it otherwise resembles. It has a minimal back seat that can accommodate two people in a pinch, costs $6,070. Aston-Martin went even further with a four-passenger DB 6 that has a full back seat and sells...