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Their most ambitious entry is British Motor Corp.'s new four-door Morris 1100, which is about a foot shorter than a Volkswagen. To smooth the ride on Europe's cambered roads, the Morris introduces a novel suspension system called "Hydro-lastic Suspension," after its two key components, rubber and water...
...middle-priced CHRYSLER looks something like an elongated Rolls-Royce, and the higher-priced IMPERIAL (which got only 0.13% of the '62 market) has shucked its showy tail lamps for unobtrusive ones set in the subdued remains of its fins. In a new bid to carve into Volkswagen's small-car mar ket, Chrysler late this year will introduce the rear-engined, French-built Simca MILLE (Chrysler owns 24% of Simca...
This is a picture comforting to any German male-but these days he is likely to find it only in an old movie. In fact, the traditional hausfrau is no more. Today's West German housewife, says Family Minister Franz-Joseph Wuermeling with a shudder, "prefers a secondhand Volkswagen to a second child...
...chic Frenchmen fancy in le long drink}. British sweaters and men's shoes, chocolates and cloth-but not what Parisians call "weedytweedy"-also rate high with Continentals. The British, in turn, have shown a growing desire for Continental products and even customs. British import duties make the Volkswagen $370 more expensive than the slickly styled, British-made Ford Anglia, but more and more Englishmen are buying the sturdy German car. Increasingly, the British are drinking French aperitifs, wearing bulky Italian sweaters, puffing Dutch cigars...
GENERAL MOTORS hopes to snatch off some of the Thunderbird market with its all-new Buick Riviera, which looks like an outsized version of Volkswagen's Karmann Ghia with a big American grille. The Riviera will have a 117-in. wheelbase, 340-h.p. engine, and come in a four-passenger, two-door, hardtop model. Chevrolet, also hoping to cut in on the Thunderbird, plans to introduce a Corvette model with the "fastback look" (Detroitese for the convex rear lines popularized by Jaguar's hot XK-E). The big Chevrolet will have its rear doctored to resemble the pointed...