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...automakers are considering ways to keep sales up after the scheduled end of the rebates on Feb. 28. GM will reduce the list prices on some of its small cars by from $104 to $313 by making such items as radial tires and deluxe steering wheels optional rather than standard equipment...
Smoother-rolling radial tires could become universal. Cars may be made almost entirely of plastic to cut body weight?though not if the oil shortage continues to reduce the supply of petrochemical feedstocks from which plastics are made. Autos will almost surely be shorter in front and rear and roomier inside. They will probably be more expensive but possibly built to last longer; annual model changes are already becoming less pronounced, and the public is likely to be more impressed with quality construction than frequent cosmetic restyling. Says AMC's Chapin: "I think we're headed toward smaller, more efficient...
...assembly line. Ferrying the executives across the Styx which we call be many names--Hudson, East, Cuyahoga, Detroit, Los Angeles, or Bay; ferrying souls from West Point or the East side or poshest Cleveland or plushest Bloomfield Hills, or from the splendors of Westwood or Nob Bill, ferried in radial punctureproof silence to those lushest immortal gardens of bones which match each heavenly city of America. Whatever the name they are all Forests of Yawns, Kingdoms of Yawns, the end of Dawns. Terminals...
...General Motors moved ahead of competitors by becoming the only automaker to have radial tires made to its own specifications. GM radials will be standard equipment this year on Grand Am and Grand Prix Pontiacs and will be optional on some other models...
Need for Speed. Many tiremakers believe that a big switch to steel belts and radials is probable in five years, but they may have to move faster than that. Foreign competitors are making a major drive, and last year they increased their U.S. volume by 35%, accounting for 6,700,000 of the 170 million tires sold domestically. France's Michelin is building a radial-tire plant in Nova Scotia and intends to export almost the entire output to the U.S. market. And on the West Coast, Japan's Bridgestone has just introduced a steel-belted radial guaranteed...