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American Motors also got into the auto race this week with the 1957 Rambler, which it hopes will pull it out of the financial red next year. Like the Chevrolet, the new Rambler, completely redesigned in 1956, is getting only a face-lift this year. Main improvement: a more conservative rear-body treatment to de-emphasize the car's boxy appearance. The Rambler will give buyers a choice of three engines, ranging from a standard 125-h.p., six-cylinder model to its first V-8 engine, rated at 190 h.p. Introducing the new Rambler, American Motors President George Romney...
...suffered a $7,000,000 second-quarter loss despite a nonrecurring $3,500,000 profit from sale of investments. President George Romney ascribed the loss (compared to a $1,500,000 profit for the same period a year ago) to lower car sales and heavy cost of restyling the Rambler a year earlier than originally planned...
Pint-Size Engine. American Motors has developed a 4-cylinder air-cooled engine weighing only 200 Ibs. v. Nash Rambler's 450-lb engine. Made largely of aluminum, the 62-h.p. motor occupies half the space of a conventional water-cooled auto engine. It will also be available next year in bigger units (6 and 8 cylinders) for use in autos, air-transported military vehicles, and stationary equipment, e.g., pumps, generators...
SPECIAL LIMITED CLASS. Rambler 6, 24.35 rn.p.g., 48.22 t.m.p.g.; Studebaker Champion 6. 20.05 m.p.g., 39.74 t.m.p.g...
...gallon), and 13 miles more than the average 48.65 t.m.p.g. It was also well ahead of the others in the High Price Class-the Packard 400, which did 50.32 t.m.p.g., and the Buick Roadmaster Riviera, which averaged 48.25 t.m.p.g. But in straight mileage, regardless of weight, a Nash Rambler did best of all, running 24.35 miles per gallon, v. 21.04 for the Imperial...