Word: sedan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safety commission from New York State showed off a design for a four-passenger Safety Sedan, developed under a $385,000 contract by Fairchild Killer Corp.'s Republic Aviation Division. Billed as a car to be developed with "an aeronautical approach," the sedan could, according to the safety commission, be mass-produced as cheaply as Detroit's lower-priced models, be far ahead in safety. Though New York State has no plans to build it, the design has such features as four-wheel drive for maximum traction and resistance to skidding, an all-window defrosting system, four roll...
...been the lone holdout in announcing its 1968 increases, led off the week's price play. The company declared an average 3.8%, or $89, boost in its compact Americans (now $1,923 for the two-door model) and medium-sized Rebels ($2,420 for the four-door sedan). Tagging its new Javelin sporty car at $2,459, A.M.C. also boosted the luxury Ambassador line by some $120, to $2,671, including now-standard air conditioning. With that, the company loosed another breezy salvo in its new ad campaign: "Either we're charging too little or everyone else...
...series, called the Torino, is an effort to cash in on Detroit's growing emphasis on sporty styling and intermediate size. Marketed with the Fairlane line, the Torino features the elongated hood and abbreviated rear end that has caught on in the specialty cars; it comes in hardtop, sedan and station wagon, as well as a racier "GT" model equipped with a 210-h.p. V-8 (engines with up to 390 h.p. are optional). The standard Fair-lanes have also been streamlined, their bodies stretched out by a full...
...German carmaker NSU Motorenwerke last week displayed an ultra-utilitarian sedan that will, it hopes, sire a new generation of automobiles. Called RO 80, the new car has a strange engine under the hood, one that increasingly intrigues the automotive industry...
...Status Car." For all that interest, NSU's bosses-Director Gerd Stieler von Heydekampf and Deputy Board Chairman Viktor Frankenberger-are counting heavily on their own RO 80, a homely four-door sedan with sloping front and raised rear that looks more like the product of wind tunnels than of style-minded designers. Later this month, RO 80s will start rolling off the assembly line at NSU's Neckarsulm plant near Stuttgart at the rate of 50 a day. They will be priced at $3,537, just below the prestigious Mercedes 250 S model. "The German mentality demands...