Small

OAKVILLE, Ont.(UPC) -

when: the first 1981 Ford be in addition to more than
-Ltd., came off the assembly

more than $75, million. at its ; dine. -

three Canadian assembly
plants for the 1981 model
year which began Monday

WASHINGTON |
The death toll on Aberba's
highways will rise
dramatically with the in-
erease of small cars on the
road unless those cars are
made safer, government
tests indicated today.

National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration Joan
Claybrook released crash
test results that showed only
two of 12 models passed the
test.

“These test results clearly
illustrate the emerging safety
problem faced by consumers
who are shifting to smaller
cars to conserve fuel,”
Claybrook said.

She said although it
already known that small
cars are less safe than large
cars in collisions between

both types of vehicles, the © batch of tests, only three of

new test show small cars are

"Roy Bennett, president
and chief: ‘executive officer,
said the ‘expenditure would

“Wess safe themselves. |
-.“Unless smaller cars are

“equipped with automatic

protection, such as airbags

or automatic belts, the
highway death toll will in-
crease beyond the already
epidemic proportions,” she
said.

Only the Chevrolet
Chevette, which has a three-
point automatic safety belt
system, and the Fiat Strada,
which has conventional
belts, passed the crash tests,
in which the cars were

fammed into a barrier at 35 -

mph. the 35 mph standard
goes into effect in 1983; the
current standard is for
protectionat 30 mph.
Claybrook released test
results on several other small
cars last February. In that
nine models the

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nearing completion. Ex-
penditures for the 1980-
model year were $10 million..

The largest single éx-
penditure, nearly $73
million, was for the launch
of a front-wheel-drive sports|
coupe at the St. Thomas,
Ont. assembly plant,
Bennett said. These cars are

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