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Despite the stress on safety, styling has not been forgotten. Among brand-new cars, Chevrolet offers the Camaro, a copy of Ford's successful Mustang. Lincoln-Mercury's Cougar has a front like a Thunderbird and a rear like the Mustang. Next week Cadillac will display the Eldorado, a front-wheel-drive sports car with Caddy configuration and the innards of Oldsmobile's Toronado...
...degrees and can be fitted out with a tiny desk to hold typewriter or work papers. Chrysler calls this Imperial "a traveling board room." The sporty Barracuda, which had been hurriedly fashioned out of a Valiant base in an effort to meet the challenge of Ford's Mustang, sold badly last year. This year Barracuda's fastback has been modified with a 'more abrupt slope (the long, tapering fast-backs are on the way out in Detroit), the back of the car has a sportier slab look, and air vents (false) have been added to the hood...
Within the next month, Chrysler's competitors will come out with their own '67s. Two will be completely new cars. One is Lincoln-Mercury's Cougar, a higher priced ($3,200) version of the Mustang. Among Cougar's features will be a steering column that tilts automatically to the right when the driver's door is opened, thus allowing him to slide out more easily. The other new car is Chevrolet's Camaro, a sports car that competes directly with the Mustang in its own price range. Originally called Panther, Camaro is almost...
...model autos, only the Mustang is still on the production line-and Ford would just love to keep that hot little item going forever. As for the rest, 1967s are now being phased in, and Detroit is breathing a huge, collective sigh of relief...
...from 2,829,527 to 2,610,696. This more than offset slight gains by Chrysler (up from 818,977 to 837,391, thanks mostly to its "intermediate"-sized Belvedere and Coronet) and by Ford (up from 1,438,247 to 1,439,620, almost entirely because of the Mustang). Profits were down: G.M. reported its second-quarter figure fell 14.6% to $546 million...