Word: simca
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Last week, at Paris' 35th automobile "salon," in the huge, ugly Grand Palais, Renault, Citroen, Peugeot, Simca and Ford (of France) trotted out their latest models to compete for attention with exhibits from U.S., British, Italian and Czech motormakers. Some of the tiny French cars looked lost among the Lincolns and Cadillacs, the British Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, the Italian Alfa Romeos and Isotta-Fraschinis. But France had a luxury car of her own in Saoutchik's elegant, hand-built models: the light grey Delahaye, whose front fenders are bisected by mirrorlike wedges of gleaming chrome (price: about...