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...rebates of $200 or $300 directly from the company. This week's specials, Dodge Dart Swingers and Plymouth Dusters, qualify for $200 rebates. In addition, the company is offering a $100 bounty to customers who trade in certain cars made by its competitors. This week, for example, a motorist trading in a used Chevrolet Vega or Ford Pinto for a new Swinger would get a $300 check from Chrysler, regardless of what kind of markdown he was able to get from the dealer on the car's basic sticker price of $3,518. In this case, the rebate...
...model cars. The great majority of those cars will be fitted with catalytic converters that change noxious exhaust fumes to harmless gases. The lead in ordinary gasoline fouls the converters. Indeed, as little as two tanks of leaded gas will "poison" a converter; to replace it could cost the motorist up to $150. So automakers will equip their 1975 models with smaller-than-usual filler pipes leading into the gas tanks. Conventional gasoline nozzles will not fit into them; only special, smaller nozzles used to dispense unleaded gas will go inside...
...level in 1971, the idea has won the support of consumer groups, labor unions and a growing number of insurance companies. Under no-fault, an injured driver is reimbursed for medical expenses and lost wages by his own insurance company, regardless of who caused the accident. In return, the motorist gives up his right to sue the negligent driver for further compensation or immeasurable factors like "pain and suffering" - unless his injuries are much greater than usual. The backlog of auto cases clogging courts is cut and, backers hope, so are insurance premiums...
...Died. Peter Jeffrey Revson, 35, American international road racer; while test driving his Formula I UOP Shadow at the Kyalami circuit near Johannesburg, South Africa. A wealthy playboy-he was recently linked with Marjorie Wallace, the dethroned Miss World titleholder-Revson was more than a dilettante motorist. He was runner-up at the Indianapolis 500 in 1971 and won the British Grand Prix in the same year. His most recent major victories were the British and Canadian Grand Prix...
...full-tank syndrome is bringing out the worst in both buyers and sellers of that volatile fluid. When a motorist in Pittsburgh topped off his tank with only 110 worth and then tried to pay for it with a credit card, the pump attendant spat in his face. A driver in Bethel, Conn., and another in Neptune, N.J., last week escaped serious injury when their cars were demolished by passenger trains as they sat stubbornly in lines that stretched across railroad tracks. "These people are like animals foraging for food," says Don Jacobson, who runs an Amoco station in Miami...