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Sick as it all may sound, West Germany's autoeroticism does have some beneficial side effects. From lowly Volkswagen to mighty Opel Admiral, there are more cars (8,700,000) in West Germany than in any other nation of the world except the U.S. Some auto executives deplore "silly sentimentality that results in people keeping a car for ten years," yet it seems to put no ceiling on sales. Last year Daimler-Benz, the manufacturer of Mercedes, sold a record $1.2 billion worth of cars and trucks -a 5.9% increase over the previous year-and is doing even better...
...private railroad car to call on G.M. dealers large and small, seeking out their advice and complaints-and in the process, building the auto industry's strongest dealer network. He also moved G.M. overseas, buying such subsidiaries as Britain's Vauxhall and Germany's Opel, and he diversified General Motors into the manufacture of nonauto products ranging from refrigerators to diesel locomotives...
...successful community "walking days." A two-year-old Spazierengehen Stiftung (Strolling Foundation) has so far awarded 34,430 gold, silver and bronze shoe-shaped medals to enthusiastic strollers who have walked respectively 300, 200, and 100 hours in a single year. Presided over by, of all people, Georg von Opel of the car clan, the Strolling Foundation has even coined a slogan for motorists: "Get out and walk...
Germany's ten manufacturers showed off 30 basic models that come in 155 different versions, all with higher horsepower than before. Notable among them: Opel's completely restyled fastback Kadett, which borrows some of its lines from the Ford Mustang, and NSU's Spider, the only car in the world powered by the Wankel engine. Twelve companies in the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan are now experimenting with the engine (which was developed in 1954 by Felix Wankel, a German engineer). The Wankel replaces conventional pistons and cylinders with a triangular rotor, has only two major...
...model change has actually pushed Ford ahead of Opel and VW in medium-priced sales. Ford's low-priced Taunus ($1,417 for a four-door sedan), virtually unchanged since its introduction in 1962, is behind both the small Opel and VW's familiar beetle in sales, but it still accounts for 35% of Ford's German production...