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...about 9:30 p.m., a passing motorist saw the car, a red Pontiac Sunbird, partially submerged in the river...
...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...
...company intends to bring back its product differentiation, so that Chevrolet will once again be perceived as the bargain-price brand, Pontiac the high-powered car, Buick and Oldsmobile the posher models and Cadillac the top of the line. The new stylings may provide added motivation for GM's network of 9,720 car dealers, many of whom have been clamoring for stronger GM brand identities. Observes Joseph Cappy, president of rival American Motors: "That Chevrolet dealer network is so strong they can sell anything. You give them a good product, and they'll just knock the doors...
...Japan and $25 in the U.S.) benefit from a production boom largely of foreign inspiration. Daewoo, the nation's second largest automaker after Hyundai, is preparing to ship next year as many as 100,000 units annually of a new GM subcompact known as LeMans, to be sold through Pontiac. Daewoo is 50% owned by GM. Ford owns 10% of Kia, South Korea's third largest auto manufacturer...
...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...