Word: subcompacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around the clock inside a secret garage in the Jura Mountain town of Biel. If the team realizes its vision, the Swatchmobile will combine the crash resistance of a Mercedes with the spunkiness of the famous wristwatch. Plans call for the Swatchmobile to be 20% smaller than a typical subcompact, able to wheel into a parking space sideways, cost about $10,000 and reach 90 miles an hour. The car's designers hope it will travel at least 80 miles on a gallon of fuel, thanks to an engine one-tenth the weight of any existing engine with equal power...
...Later he helped defuse a bitter environmental fight at a major new plant site. Associates say he has a photographic memory for both faces and statistics. While Stempel was general manager of Chevrolet in the early 1980s, he gave a detailed presentation of 17 different vehicles, ranging from the subcompact Chevette to medium-duty trucks -- all without referring to notes. "It was an amazing performance," recalls a senior engineer...
...time when GM's domestic products are drawing mixed reviews, GM Europe's new cars and engines have garnered glowing write-ups in the auto-savoring European press. The manufacturer's success is owing in large part to the successful redesign of its market-leading subcompact, a car class in which the parent company has produced notable failures like the Chevrolet Chevette. The GM Europe subcompact, which goes by the names Opel Kadett and Vauxhall Astra, is now selling at the rate of 630,000 cars a year, making it the best-selling GM car in the world...