Word: pontiac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopes it will soon satisfy buyers who have complained in recent years that certain classes of mid-size GM cars -- for example, the Chevrolet Celebrity, Pontiac 6000, Buick Century and Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera -- have tended to look as though they were made by the same cookie cutter. The first major departure will be the Beretta and Corsica, followed in the fall of 1987 by a line of intermediate-size autos, designated the W-body cars in keeping with Detroit's penchant for alphabetic code names. GM allotted nearly $7 billion, its largest development budget ever, to create the front-wheel...
...meet the requirements, GM had threatened to close some of its big-car factories, including Detroit's Clark Street Cadillac factory and the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird plant in Van Nuys, Calif. The company organized a letter-writing drive among more than 10,000 workers, local officials and state legislators that resulted in a cascade of mail to the Transportation Department during the past year. A GM statement last week said that the Government's leniency was "good news for American consumers and autoworkers" and "in keeping with the requirements of both the law and the real world." That...
...Pontiac dealer and a right-winger even by the standards of conservative Arizona, Evan Mecham had previously appeared four times on the ballot for Governor, so often that he became known as the "Harold Stassen of Arizona." Thus he was not taken all that seriously by the Republican establishment. This time around, everyone assumed that Burton Barr, the G.O.P. leader of the house who had the personal backing of Ronald Reagan, would easily capture the nomination and probably go on to win the governorship that Democrat Bruce Babbitt is vacating...
...Rourke is using a cardboard cutout of Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo to deride his popular opponent as "one-dimensional." South Dakota Congressman Tom Daschle, a populist Democrat hoping to unseat incumbent Senator James Abdnor, juxtaposes shots of long, gleaming limousines purring around Washington with , pictures of his own 1971 Pontiac wearily chugging toward the Senate Office Building...
...autos from Japanese manufacturers, Smith has taken the unprecedented step of creating a joint venture with Toyota to build a small car in California. He further shocked the unwary by establishing a separate company to produce the subcompact Saturn, which will bear GM's first new nameplate since the Pontiac was introduced in 1926. Saturns will start rolling off the assembly line in two years...