Word: opels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automakers from 20 countries last week displayed their wares at the 53rd Paris Motor Show, which is Europe's biggest, safety came second. To be sure, the U.S.-owned entries, such as General Motors' West German Opel and English Ford, have as standard items in their '67s some of the features that their U.S. cousins have-including padded dashboards and emergency flasher lights. The Europeans, too, are offering disc brakes, recessed knobs and fixtures, both front and rear safety-belt anchorages, plus such equipment as impact-absorbing bodies (France's Renault and Britain's Rover...
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...
Married. Brigitte Bardot, 31, prototype cat for Europe's sex kittens; and Gunter Sachs von Opel, 33, heir to a West German ball-bearing fortune and one of the Continent's best-known hedonists; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...
...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...