Word: sedan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directly challenge Detroit. British Motor Corp., noting that 75% of its U.S. sales are sports cars, is coming out with two revised versions of its low-cost Austin-Healey Sprite ($1,868). It has also converted its tiny Austin 850 into the 90-m.p.h. Austin-Cooper mini-sports sedan boasting twin carburetors, disc brakes, and sure-footed front-wheel drive. Rootes is pushing its prestigious, $4,295 Humber (30% of its buyers are doctors, who like its luxurious interior and unpretentious exterior...
Three days later, the entire 6.500-man U.S. garrison in Berlin was put on alert, tanks and armored personnel carriers were rushed to the Friedrichstrasse's "Checkpoint Charlie" as two U.S. Army officers in civilian clothes, driving a grey Opel sedan, were escorted by three Jeeps filled with armed infantrymen through seven blocks of Communist territory. British Centurion tanks moved up to the Brandenburg Gate in their sector of the city...
...current juvenile rebellion took the form of violence for its own sake. In Los Angeles last week, Gene Klossmer, 87, was treating Mrs. Edith Sanford, 70, to a ride along the street in his slow (4 m.p.h.), three-wheel electric cart, when two teen-agers in a 1951 sedan drove up behind him, gleefully pushed the unsteady cart along until it overturned. The elderly riders suffered broken bones and numerous cuts. The two youths drove on-laughing-and showed no signs of remorse when they were arrested later. "It's not against the law to push a cart...
Chevrolet. Chevy's big surprise is the size of its new "intermediate'' car. the Chevy II. Only slightly larger than a compact, the Chevy II is intended to compete not with Ford's intermediate Fairlane. which is roughly the size of a 1949 sedan, but with Ford's best-selling Falcon compact. In a market where companies almost invariably try to blanket their competitors' offerings, this leaves a gap in Chevy's line, but Chevrolet General Manager Edward Cole defends his strategy by saying that the cheapest big Chevy, the Biscayne. will...
Ford. Ford's new "intermediate" car (about the same size as standard sedans of the late 40s, though with more interior space) is the Fairlane. Styled along familiar Ford lines with large round taillights, flat rear deck and small canted fins, the Fairlane has a six-cylinder engine, will be produced initially in only two models-a two-door and a four-door sedan. For the pizazz lover, Ford will bring out, in addition to its regular four-seater Thunderbird, a Thunderbird sports roadster. Equipped with wire wheels and a dashboard "assist bar" for nervous passengers to hang...