Word: rambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...level to 7,005 feet above, had covered 840 miles. The winner: a Lincoln sedan, with 66.484 ton-miles per gallon (weight of car and passengers in tons, multiplied by miles, divided by gallons of gasoline consumed). Top places in actual miles per gallon: the six-cylinder Nash Rambler (31.053); the four-cylinder Henry J (30.109); the six-cylinder Henry J (28.860); the six-cylinder Studebaker Champion...
Over a 3.4-mile course on the New Hampshire Turnpike last week, two small cars sped back & forth, competing in a miles-per-gallon mileage test. The cars were Nash's new "Rambler," and Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s "Henry J.," making its first public appearance. The Henry J. made 34 miles to the gallon, v. the Rambler...
...race of the big-car makers to bring out a smaller, cheaper car, Nash this week became the first to hit the market. It unveiled the Rambler, * a small (100-inch wheelbase), trim, five-passenger convertible with an 82-h.p. motor. Most notable feature: the top does not fold down but slides down through heavy steel side-rails like the top of a rolltop desk. The price: $1,808, including radio, heater and air-conditioner, about $300 less than the bigger Ford and Chevrolet convertibles with similar equipment...
Before long, Nash hopes to have Rambler sedans ready to sell, probably in the $1,100 range. Nash is spending $5,000,000 to expand its Kenosha, Wis. . plant to build bodies for the new cars, has already produced enough convertibles to stock its dealers. It has not yet made up its mind whether it will make the N.X.I. (TIME, Jan. 16), a still smaller and cheaper car that it paraded around the U.S. last winter to see if there was a market...