Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rear-end characteristic of Britain's top-selling sports cars. Chevrolet expects to be in the showrooms late next spring with a rear-engine sports car built on the low-priced Corvair chassis with a sleek, sloping rear end (called a fastback in Detroit). By then, the aggressive Pontiac Division also intends to be out with a sports car of its own, named the Tempest GTO to ride on the prestige of the red-hot Italian Ferrari...
...spotted in the sales success of Ford's inter mediate-sized Fairlane, which is in a niche between the compacts and standard-sized cars. G.M.'s Chevrolet Divi sion is readying an elegant, all-new intermediate car that it is tentatively calling the Chevelle. Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac will upgrade their compacts to intermediate size, making many of their parts interchangeable with those of the Chevelle. Ford, on the other hand, is apparently tired of the trend it started: it will drop the intermediate Meteor from its Mercury lineup and give the Fairlane only a minor styling uplift...
...money last year. So far this year, more than half of Chevy's sales are top-of-the-line Impalas (average price delivered: $2,850), and almost half of Cadillac's buyers are choosing one of its higher-priced models, the de Ville. In the first quarter, Pontiac sold 19,600 of its expensive ($4,200 and up) Grand Prix models, which Detroit considers to be this year...
...cars went into the second lap, a white Pontiac Tempest sedan hot-rodded past everyone into the lead. The Tempest is Pontiac's compact, normally has a four-cylinder engine, gentle springs, and all the aerodynamic qualities of a two-by-four. But some expert rebuilding and the addition of an optional, high-performance V-8 Pontiac engine was all that Driver Paul Goldsmith, 36, himself an Indianapolis driver, needed to leave the Sting Rays in his exhaust...
...sales rise was made by Chrysler, which is recuperating vigorously under the cost-cutting, fat-trimming prescription of President Lynn Townsend. Chrysler took 11.8% of the market in January, almost 2% better than its showing last year. General Motors, as usual, had the biggest share (55.6%), and its Chevrolet, Pontiac and Cadillac divisions all made records...