Word: rambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many, and Plymouth is up 16%. But there are still not enough cars to meet demand and get a true picture of the market. Last week, to make matters worse, a five-day walkout of white-collar workers at Chrysler Corp. forced a 63% slash in output, and Rambler stopped production after the Budd plant at Gary, Ind., makers of Rambler underbodies, went on strike...
Studebaker-Packard's new small car, the Lark, also made pricing news. Its price was set lower than the list prices of the Big Three and in some cases below American Motors' hot-selling Rambler. The Lark begins at $1,756 for a two-door, six-cylinder model, ranges to $2,362 for an eight-cylinder station wagon. Its four-door six carries a list price of $1,821 v. $1,918 for the cheapest four-door Rambler, but most of its two-door models run slightly above Rambler's two-door Rambler American series...
Ordering moved so briskly for American Motors' Rambler (72,566 firm orders from dealers v. 35,607 at the same time in 1957) that President George Romney again boosted his sales predictions-from 252,000 to 300,000. He advertised the 100-in. wheel base Rambler American for a factory list price...
...down the front end and the rear bustle. "Everybody likes the pictures," said Salesman Jim Hockney of Manhattan's Studebaker-Packard Salon Inc. "We have orders, with deposits, for 40 cars-which is just 39 more than we had last year at this time." The new American Motors Rambler is almost the same as the '58 model, which rang up a company-saving 171,000 sales. American expects '59 sales to climb to 252,000, and many dealers are already well ahead of last year...
SMALL STATION WAGON will roll out from American Motors this fall with same 100-in. wheelbase as smallest Rambler. Wagon will be about 3 ft. shorter than most other models. Price: roughly...