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...keep its competitors in the dark as to the Cardinal's appearance (Ford's typical saucer-size taillights, vestigial fins and probably a Thunderbird-like grille), Ford has been testing the car in semi-disguised form in Germany and Italy (see cut). Main Cardinal features: a front-wheel drive that will eliminate the troublesome "hump" caused by the drive shaft in most cars; a 70-h.p., V-4 engine that promises up to 35 miles per gallon of gas and rockets the little car along at more than 80 m.p.h. ; sculptured styling that will allow for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Coming for 1963 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

Other Detroit whispers last week: > Buick will introduce the Centurion, General Motors' long-awaited answer to Ford's Thunderbird. Slightly bigger than the Thunderbird (116-in. wheelbase v. the T-bird's 113) and probably more expensive, Centurion will feature "fastback" styling, a gentle, slightly concave curve from the roofline to the rear bumper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Coming for 1963 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...sweet wines for which he is famous. "Then," he explains, "after a couple of years, they'll be drinking a drier wine." Meanwhile, Gallo's judgment of the public taste results in the sale of millions of gallons of his artificially flavored Ripple, and Thunderbird-both spiked with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food & Drink: A Watch on the Wine | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...doing the cha cha cha on the wooden dance floor that covers part of the lawn. A champagne fountain burbles into the hollow-stem crystalware. The hostess snuggles her mink stole over her airy Howard Greer original. The host pats his cummerbund and stares expansively at his Thunderbird convertible in the drive. Then he surveys the whole scene and realizes that he is not the master of a blessed thing he surveys. The tents, the chairs, the band, the dance floor, the artificial grass, the champagne fountain, the cummerbund, the T-Bird. the mink, the dress are all rented. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: You-Rent-lt | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

...models, and have been adorned with an upright grille similar to that of the Mercedes Benz (which S.P. markets in the U.S.). On the restyled Hawk. S.P. designers have also used the Mercedes look up front and a roof that borrows some of the thunder from Ford's Thunderbird. Though S.P. has dipped an estimated $10.3 million into the red so far this year. Egbert reports that dealers' orders for the 1962 models are running 20% ahead of last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rites of Summer (Contd.) | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

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