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...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...
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...
...coat habit, fashion designers are now serving up fun furs instead of practical parkas. Some are strictly fluff and nonsense, like Revillon of Saks Fifth Avenue's $5,550 chinchilla jacket with matching boots. Others are almost tough enough to tumble in, like Walt Stiel's $375 mustang, stenciled to look like giraffe. Still others have prices that are actually fun, like McGregor's $50 mock crocodile jacket...
...Mama Makes Two. Two days later, Breedlove's wife, Lee, showed that speed is a family affair. A 5-ft. 6-in., 112-lb. mother of five who had never driven anything faster than the family Mustang, Lee tucked her long black hair into her husband's blue crash helmet, strapped herself into Spirit's cockpit and roared off across the salt at 308.56 m.p.h. to break the ladies' record held by Betty Skelton. If anything, she took the experience more casually than Craig. "I wasn't a bit scared," she insisted...
Giveaways provide Detroit with another opportunity. In current contests, for example, CITGO is offering a Mustang, and Tetley Tea and Purina Dog Chow are offering Pontiacs as prizes. Thom McAn is introducing a new shoe named GTO, will give away 20 Pontiac GTOs and carry splashy signs in its 850 stores showing pictures of the car as well as the shoe...