Word: prix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small-or at least smaller-and spend big has been General Motors. Its rise in sales this year of some 622,000 cars has been larger than the increases at all the other automakers combined. Among GM's leaders: the Chevrolet Monte Carlo and the Pontiac Grand Prix, both carrying base prices of $4,600 to $5,200, and its compact Chevy Nova and Oldsmobile Cutlass, which lists at $4,500 and has been the industry's top seller for two years running...
Impressive Wins. Her problems were not new ones. In Turin, the world's best woman race driver, Italy's Leila Lombardi, 33, who competes on the Grand Prix circuit, recalled last week that "only in the United States have I recently encountered real prejudice. Why do American men say, 'No, you're out of it because you're a woman.' So many American race drivers behave like male chauvinists instead of men who practice a sport...
...completely different star in the galaxy of motor racing. Medenica may be willing to leavy Indy to the Unsers and the Foyts, but if he has his way he will become one of the few Harvard alumni to burn rubber in the rarefied atmosphere of the European Grand Prix circuit...
...other drivers who spend each weekend with visions of Watkins Glen and Monte Carlo dancing through their heads, he hopes to pick up enough racing savvy to make it worth the slow and expensive climb towards the road racer's ultimate dream--driving a Formula One in Grand Prix competition...
...world of Grand Prix racing is not what most Americans, accustomed to the stock cars of Darlington and Daytona, might expect. While Medenica's Lola T-340 will never turn world champion Niki Lauda green with envy, it is still a far cry from the souped-up stock cars made famous by the "good ol' boys" of the NASCAR speedway circuit...