They do run, run, run; they do run, run. (American carmakers and also includes a related article on selling cars to women.)

Economist (US), The, April, 1989

They do run. run. run: they do run. run

WITH a home market skidding below the 10.6m cars sold last year, with Japanese transplant factories revving up to make some 2m cars a year by 1990 and with production schedules geared to grabbing market share, America looks a dangerous place to be in the motor business. But in Detroit, from the 14th-floor executive suite of the General Motors building to Ford's "World Headquarters" and on to Chrysler Drive, there are few frightened faces. Motown has rediscovered style.

American cars' seat-width, wheelbaselength and foam-mattress suspension have long bulged beyond (or behind) those designed for the narrow, winding streets of most other countries. But in the struggle to produce more efficient cars of higher quality,...

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