But American carmakers did little to change their products. By the late 1970s, 80 percent of American-made cars still had V-8 engines. In 1979, in a second oil shock, oil supplies from the Middle East were once again disrupted, this time as a result of the Islamic revolution in Iran and the outbreak the following year of the Iran-Iraq War. The actu

The pattern for pricing Ford cars was based on apparent comparative prices for 1909 and 1910: the greater the volume the lower the price. Hawkins and his people brought us our first challenging volume. That challenge had to be met by faster production. True, it was the car that made the salesmen, but it was the sales organization that sparked the g

I were writing an advertisement for the Corvette