Word: renault
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Died. Henri Pigozzi, 66, founder and recently retired chairman of France's Simca, an Italian-born onetime Fiat salesman who set up his own factory in France in 1934, went on to become the enfant terrible of the French auto industry by taking over third place (behind Renault and Citroen) with his bargain-priced ($1,200) Aronde sedan, by forbidding his workers to join the national unions, and by merging with Ford's French subsidiary in 1954 and subsequently selling the controlling interest to Chrysler in 1963; of a heart attack; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France...
Then a yellow, 10-h.p. Renault opened Bonnard to rural beauty. He would motor through the countryside, stopping frequently to sketch. He fled Paris for Mediterranean country villas...
...have run into sharp competitive curves and bumps in the road. In Italy, auto sales are down 10% so far this year, largely because of such government anti-inflation measures as higher auto and gasoline taxes and restrictions on installment buying. In France, where auto sales are off 5%, Renault, Peugeot, Simca and Panhard have reduced their work weeks. By contrast, auto production this year will hit alltime highs in Britain (2,000,000) and West Germany...
Volkswagen Chairman Heinz Nordhoff and Citroën's Pierre Bercot have both expressed alarm at growing competition from "American giants" in the European market. Fiat's Chairman Vittorio Valletta has openly called for a cartel of European producers, and Renault's President Pierre Dreyfus favors government protection against the U.S. subsidiaries...
...Cortina and G.M.'s Vauxhall Viva. In Germany, the larger Volkswagen "1500" has made up some of the sales that the old beetle-back has lost. The French auto industry, which has not introduced a new model all year, looks forward to a lift next spring, when Renault and Peugeot will bring out fresh designs...