Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit is also gingerly moving toward what many regard as the autos of a future in which it must make cars smaller to comply with federal gas-mileage requirements: front-wheel-drive cars. Front-wheel drive, an idea from Europe, makes possible a transverse engine-one that is fitted sideways under the hood. That saves enough space to permit a surprisingly roomy interior in a relatively small car. Moreover, there is no transmission tunnel running back through the passenger cabin to cramp leg room. GM offers front-wheel drive on some Cadillac and large Oldsmobile Toronado models and is preparing...
Surprisingly, though, Chrysler, which has lagged in bringing out new cars since it introduced the Valiant in 1960, has gone further and faster toward front-wheel drive than anyone. Its executives are the most bullish of all. Says Executive Vice President R.K. Brown: "In five years, when the entire industry will have spent $50 billion to rebuild an entire new fleet of cars for the North American public, people will look back and say it all started with Omni and Horizon." These are two snappy, speedy, lightweight cars that Chrysler is now showing off to the press, and will...
...south well into Chile. Paved with massive, hand-hewn blocks of stone, the roads have survived the centuries all but intact. The Route of the Incas by Jacques Soustelle (Viking; unpaged; $35) evokes the grandeur of the vanished Inca empire and explains why a people who never used the wheel built such a road network. Hans Silvester's striking photographs capture the haunting beauty of sites like the ruined city of Machu Picchu, the sculptured faces of present-day Andeans and the ageless wonder of the paved Inca roads. Between them, Soustelle and Silvester manage to show why even...
...know that I can't." This disarming passage ends with a motto that also fits this modest, agreeable book. Dame Agatha recalls a plate on her nursery wall, "which I think I must have won at a coconut shy at one of the regattas. 'Be a wheel-greaser if you can't drive a train...
...Wheel Wham...