Word: sedan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...growing in every direction. At home in the U.S., G.M.'s bread-and-butter car, the standard-sized Chevrolet, was outselling the rival Ford Galaxie by nearly 2 to 1. In Germany, G.M.'s Opel subsidiary was gearing up for fall introduction of its new Kadett economy sedan which seemed certain to lift still higher G.M.'s 11% share of world auto sales outside the U.S. In space, the giant automaker's AC Spark Plug division won a $16 million contract to build the guidance system for the Apollo moonship. And good as all this...
...last fortnight, Cartoonist Batchelor, whose personal driving record is well-nigh unblemished, finished the 1,001st contribution to his crusade, drove out for a weekend at his country home in Connecticut. There, behind the wheel of his 1950 Jaguar sedan (Conn, license ITU-for Inviting the Undertaker), with his wife at his side. Cartoonist Batchelor ran head-on into real-life inspiration for his 1,002nd traffic cartoon...
...coupe called Jetfire, with bucket seats in front and a turbosupercharged high-compression engine capable of delivering 215 horses (price: $3,039). Stude-baker's new Avanti (TIME, April 13) is a rakish restyling from inside out designed to narrow still further the gap between the family sedan and the gran turismo...
...emigrated from Holland. In recent years, she and their five children have bravely endured both his long absences from home and his addiction to secondhand automobiles (he owns four: a '36 Dodge coupé, a '41 Dodge pickup, a '50 Ford convertible, a '51 Chevrolet sedan...
...Target. Virtually excluded from the Common Market countries by high tariffs, both Saab and Volvo concentrate their foreign sales effort in the U.S. Volvo sold 12,787 cars in the U.S. last year at prices ranging from $2,295 for a sedan to $3,995 for a sports model, surged from tenth place among imported cars to fourth.* Saab, which sells mostly in the East at prices ranging from $1,895 to $2,790, moved from 19th to 17th with 4,169 sales-exactly on target with Managing Director Holm's plan to sell from...