Word: opels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Prosperous West Germany's most heated industrial race has pitted General Motors' sprightly Opel against front-running Volkswagen for dominance of the burgeoning auto market...
...Opel has been doing pretty well: it has jumped from 14.3% to 21.1% of the German market since 1952 (v. Volkswagen's 32.5%). It has just discovered, however, that while pursuing Volkswagen it will have to keep a sharp eye on the rearview mirror. Reason: Ford's German subsidiary is coming up fast from the rear. Fortified by new and attractive models, heavy investment and good management, Ford has captured 19.6% of the German market with its Taunus cars, pulling to within honking distance of Opel and bringing the two U.S.-owned companies closer to domination of Germany...
...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...
...passenger cars. Everyone was expected to ride buses." What really irritated Kosygin was that government officials in many cases had been forced to ride in dump trucks. Russia currently has fewer than 1,500,000 passenger cars, ranging from the tiny Moskuich (comparable to the old-model German Opel Rekord but priced at about $4,000) to balloon-tired Chaikas that sell for $12,000. But even if a Soviet worker could afford a car, he would have to wait five years or more for delivery under current production rates. Though Kosygin would like to change that, it is obvious...