Word: v8
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black, thanks largely to the success of the intermediate Cordoba and the compacts-Plymouth Volare and Dodge Aspen-Chrysler is tinkering with the three only a little. Volare, for example, gets a "super six" engine that is 20% more fuel efficient than its old 318-cu.-in. V8...
High Fine. Last week the California air resources board fined American Motors $4.3 million and banned sales of the company's Gremlins, Matadors and Hornets with 304-cu.-in. V8 engines. The board accused A.M.C. of producing polluting cars and submitting reports that falsely showed they met California standards. In Detroit, A.M.C. officials denied intentionally making any false reports. They called the fine "unreasonable" and the sales ban unjustified since only about 1,000 cars were involved. Mindful of A.M.C.'s precarious competitive position (the company lost $27.5 million in the last fiscal year), the state may reduce...
...were able to qualify four cars for the race, including one on the very last day, for fellow Texan Jim McElreath, whose original car had been bumped from the field by a faster qualifier. On top of this , Foyt just happens to be the distributor for the turbocharged Ford V8 racing engines that two thirds of this year's qualifiers are using. When he was first awarded the franchise last fall a lot of jokes were going around about how the next Memorial Day would see 32 engine failures at Indianapolis. They may not tell those jokes around Al Unser...