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...first quarter (which ended Dec. 31) of its current fiscal year, American Motors had a net profit of $4,948,736 v. a loss of $2,994,613 in the same period a year ago. The first quarterly profit in two years was due to the upsurge in Rambler sales, which rose 35% over last year's first quarter as production climbed to 41,492 cars...
Romney loudly agreed, then added a snapper. "Two Ramblers can be operated for the cost of the official car you are driving," he wired Wagner. The mayor rides in a seven-passenger 1955 Cadillac limousine, which is 19 ft. long v. 14.8 ft. of a Rambler American, costs $822 a year to maintain, not counting a chauffeur's annual salary of up to $4,865. Moreover, the city runs about 65 motor mastodons (Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chryslers, Packards) for conveying top brass, as well as 149 medium ones (Buicks, Mercuries, Dodges, Pontiacs, De Sotos) for lesser lights...
...Ride a Rambler, Romney urged Wagner, thereby "benefiting taxpayers as well as taking leadership in reducing traffic congestion and parking problems." But the mayor politely declined the offer from Romney to place three Ramblers at Wagner's disposal for test-driving...
Cashing in on booming small-car sales of its 108-in. -wheelbase Ramblers, American Motors has made an even smaller, 100-in.-wheelbase 1958 Rambler American. Aside from a redesigned grille and trim, the car is a reissue of the first economical (up to 35 miles per gallon) five-passenger, two-door Rambler sedan introduced in 1951, dropped by 1956. Plain and simple, the 90-h.p. American even comes with a do-it-yourself instruction book to cut repair bills. American Motors' President George Romney says it will compete directly with the $1,795 Studebaker-Packard Scotsman and foreign...
...models are running at an annual rate of only 5,800,000, but he still had hopes for a 6,000,000 year. The reason U.S. auto sales have leveled off for the past few years, said Romney-with a bow to his hot-selling little Rambler-is that the automobile industry as a whole has ignored "fundamental changes occurring in automobile use and demand," i.e., the increased popularity of smaller, more compact cars...