Word: corvair
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...concerns small, sporty cars. Ford's spunky Mustang has climbed to third place among all types, with sales up 11% to 211,793, and its success will probably earn for its creator, Group Vice President Lee lacocca, the presidency of Ford some day. G.M.'s scarcely competitive Corvair has been damaged so badly by criticism of the safety of its 196,063 models that sales are off 55% to 38,156, and its flop has hardly helped the ambitions of its creator, G.M. Executive Vice President Ed Cole. Nobody in Detroit would be surprised if G.M. eventually should...
...Corvair '65s were assembled in a number of instances with positive battery cables close enough to the front engine shield to be grounded; 18,596 cars were recalled...
...were off almost 5% from last year's record, and the inventory of unsold cars swelled to 1,582,000 compared with 1,337,500 a year ago. All the publicity about the industry's safety record has begun to damage the automakers, notably General Motors, whose Corvair sales are off 53.4% from last year's rate and whose entire Chevrolet division is down...
...target of G.M.'s sleuthing was Ralph Nader, 32, a Harvard Law School graduate who last year authored a book called Unsafe at Any Speed, which devoted a chapter to telling about the dangers of driving a 1960-63 model of Chevrolet's Corvair. Nader charged Corvair with sloppy-and therefore presumably unsafe-engineering in its rear suspension system...
...Life. As of the time that Nader wrote his book, more than 100 lawsuits had been filed against Chevrolet for Corvair's alleged deficiencies (to date, G.M. has won two such suits, lost one, and settled one out of court). Angered by Nader's charges, some General Motors executives decided to counterattack. The corporation retained a Washington law firm, which in turn paid out $6,700 to hire Vincent Gillen, a onetime FBI agent turned private detective with headquarters in Manhattan. Gillen sent his agents a frank letter about what they were supposed to try to accomplish...