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...This fall Chrysler will be selling two new models, which have been code-named the K-cars: the Dodge Aries and the Plymouth Reliant. These are front-wheel-drive compacts aimed at the same market as GM's X-cars, like the Chevrolet Citation, which were introduced 16 months ago. The dimensions and performance of the K-cars are nearly identical to the GM products. Designed to carry five or six passengers in relative comfort, the K-cars are Government-rated to get 25 m.p.g. in city driving and 41 m.p.g. on the highway. The base sticker price...
FORD. Delays in down-sizing its cars and a cash bind have made Ford in many ways an even sicker company than Chrysler. Ford's big models are selling poorly, and it lags behind both Chrysler and GM in the production of small, front-wheel-drive cars. Says Auto Analyst Maryann Keller of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "Caught between GM, with all its money, and Chrysler, with a federal sugar daddy, Ford has to husband its limited resources...
...program. The money will pay for the development of a new GM car every six months until 1985. Following next spring's J-car, the sporty Chevrolet Camaros and Pontiac Firebirds will be down-sized in 1982. Then in the 1983 model year GM will introduce a front-wheel-drive family car that will seat five...
...cars for more than 25 years, "AMC has never had the capital to design autos that were technologically competitive. Today it has just 1.7% of the U.S. market. AMC's only new models this year are the Renault 181, which it is importing from France, and a four-wheel-drive subcompact. By 1982 AMC may be phasing out the existing subcompact Spirit and compact Concord, leaving it with a Renault-designed small car to be built at its only surviving passenger car plant, in Kenosha, Wis. American Motors will probably become more and more of a French company...
...them, to their union, to their families and to their nation. Worker alienation is almost unheard of, and sabotage is unknown. Coke bottles do not rattle in the doors of Toyotas as they sometimes do in Detroit products; a handful of nuts does not clang inside a Datsun wheel cover; keys do not break in the locks. There are no Monday Hondas or Datsuns...