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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...American Motors unveiled its first compact convertible at its 1961 auto preview last week, President George Romney announced another innovation that rattled the U.S. auto industry. In a direct challenge to one of Detroit's most hallowed traditions, American Motors will make no more annual model changes in its hot-selling (26% of Rambler sales) Rambler American, which has been restyled for 1961. Romney, also promised no ''abrupt or whimsical" changes in other models...
...three-car families, the depreciation costs run so high that owners keep their cars longer. Result: auto volume is "geared more closely to scrappage rates, population increases and the growth of the economy as a whole." The prophet of the compact car, Romney also predicted that in the 1961 model year, compacts will account for half of all new car sales - and that Rambler's 1961 sales will jump more than 26%. "The era of the dinosaur* in the auto business is drawing to a close," he said, and so is "unbelievable waste and ostentation in the most important...
...sort of model changes that Romney approves of were announced last week by Volkswagen, partly in answer to the success of the U.S. compacts. The 1961 Volkswagen has 27 changes, mostly mechanical, but few of them are obvious to the eye. Engine power has been boosted to 40 h.p. from 36 h.p., and the Volks has a new carburetor, a new automatic choke and a bigger luggage area. Unlike Detroit. Volkswagen makes its mechanical changes throughout the year, has yet to make a major model-styling change on what is essentially a 1938 design...
Such perfectionism comes high: $700 a suit to a private buyer, almost twice that much to a buyer who wants to copy the model for mass distribution. Even so, the House of Chanel loses money every year on its fashion division, which is carried by the perfume profits. Some 80% of Chanel sales are made abroad, and her clothes have been copied all over the world, right down to a U.S. cotton model retailing for $10. The secret of fashion is simple, says Coco: "One always begins by making dream dresses. Then one has to take away something. Always...
...flashy cash-and-carriage world of Hollywood, actors are often known by the cars they keep. The premier model: a Dual-Ghia convertible. Hand assembled in Detroit, with an Italian body and Chrysler motor, the Dual-Ghia cost $7,500 cash (no trade-ins), and only 117 were made from 1957, when it was introduced, until production was stopped 18 months ago. Frank Sinatra got one of the first Dual-Ghias, and members of his clan, Eddie Fisher and Peter Lawford, were not far behind. But when Sinatra called up to order a fourth for Clansman Sammy Davis...