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...ballyhoo the two-seater sports car they will introduce this month, Pontiac executives summoned the press to a sneak preview in a cavernous auto plant. At the climax of the meeting, officials did not show off the car. Instead, they unfurled a banner displaying the result of their hard work. FIERO, it said, revealing the auto's name, which is Italian for "proud." It was no small disclosure. Detroit carmakers spend millions of dollars each year dreaming up prospective auto names, and they risk much more when they finally choose...
When they were introduced in April 1979, General Motors' X-model autos made a huge hit with buyers. By the end of the first model year, 1.1 million of the economical front-wheel-drive cars were sold under the names Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark. The X-cars, however, turned out to be less a salesman's dream than a mechanic's nightmare. Since they initially appeared in showrooms, they have been subjected to ten recalls, involving 967,603 vehicles (some were recalled more than once) for defects ranging from faulty fuel-tank...
...Tuesday you should happen to spot a white 1983 Pontiac Firebird with blue stars on the roof and the words "Capitol of Air" on that side in huge red letter, the man behind the wheel will be George W. Polk...
...people, for making them do more than they think they can. Says St. Louis Plant Manager John Burkart: "All of us at Chrysler believe in the man. I worship the guy." Vince Williams, a Portland, Ore., auto salesman, says he decided to open a Dodge dealership rather than a Pontiac outlet just because of lacocca...
...usually not settled by national issues. But to a large extent the national recession came home to America, like it did to Peoria, as a local issue this year. This was particularly evident in Michigan, where the 16.1% unemployment rate is the highest in the nation. In Pontiac, where the devastated auto industry has created a whopping 31.7% unemployment rate, former Democratic Congressman Robert Carr handily won a rematch against the Republican who upset him in 1980, Jim Dunn. "Of course this was a referendum on Reaganomics," said Carr the day after the election. "Voters don't want to bear...