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After a week of 18-hr, workdays, Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer, 59, likes nothing better than to devote a little more time to his one true love. He putters around the city's familiar alleyways in a 1975 Pontiac, gleefully noting potential sites for redevelopment, shaking his head at uncollected garbage, scowling at potholes. His observations fill pad after pad of "Mayor's Action Memos"-acerbic calls for remedial action that will be issued to his staff on Monday morning. Example: "Why is an abandoned car ... still visible to me and invisible to the impounders of illegally...
Like the successful X-car series that GM launched in the spring of 1979, the J-cars (Chevrolet Cavalier, Pontiac J2000 and Cadillac Cimarron) are designed for the new era of scarce and expensive energy. The four-passenger subcompacts, which replace models like the Chevrolet Monza and Pontiac Sunbird, fall in size between the bigger X-cars and the smaller Chevrolet Chevette. Powered by four-cylinder engines, the new autos are expected to get about 26 m.p.g. in the city and 43 m.p.g. on the highway. While the economy and styling of the J-cars are appealing, the prices...
...afford a $12,900 BMW 3201 or an $11,100 Audi 4000. But will a sports sedan customer be attracted to a car that has traditionally been synonymous with conspicuous consumption? And will he pay several thousand dollars more for a Cadillac than for a similarly equipped Pontiac J2000 that is built in the same plant? Admits one GM executive: "It will be a real test for the Cadillac name plate...
...Ford had to face one undeniable fact: even once popular fuel-efficient small cars are not selling. At the beginning of February, Chevrolet dealers had a 98-day supply of compact Citations, and Pontiac showrooms were backed up with 92-day inventories of the small front-wheel-drive Phoenix. Ford dealers were stuck with 100-day-plus backlogs on nine separate models ranging from the Mustang and Fairmont to the Mark VI. Sixty-day levels are considered ideal...
...like that all week, and Reagan's bravura performance won rave notices not only from friends but from once and, no doubt, future foes. One event that symbolized the earnest good fellowship of the Reagan mission to Washington occurred on Wednesday afternoon, when a beat-up Pontiac brought Senator Ted Kennedy to call on the out-of-towner. For 30 minutes, Kennedy and Reagan talked about issues that the Senator felt important, such as arms limitation and getting people back to work. Reagan was attentive but noncommittal. Then Kennedy emerged to explain his visit to reporters: "I believe...