Back to the future:
Year 2000 from 1975

In 1975, Motor Trend mag-
azine asked a number of
automobile experts to gaze
into their crystal balls and
predict what the automobile
industry would be like in
the year 2000 {now only
seven years away).

‘Below is a sampling of their
replies, with their job positions at
the time of the interview.

The automobile will be obsolete
for urban transportation by the
vear 2000, but will be used for
non-city travel. I look for electric
cars ... electric mass transit ...
possibly a new vehicle propulsion
System.

@—Paul J. Brown

Director, Safety Research Labo-

ratory.
The future of the automobile
rests .on a simple basic fact —
“people love cars and will work
hard and make sacrifices in order
to satisfy their desire. The type of
- engine will certainly change (mv
personal bet is electric), but indi-
viduals will continue to demand a
personal vehicle that will take
them io where they want to go.
@—Arjay Miller
Dean, Stanford University. ~
The automobile indusiry is “a
growth industry and it will always

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be one. It has to be, because per-

sonal transportation isn't going
away and over the jong run there
must be a growing: number of
vehicles to varry a growing popu-
lation and its- goods fram one
place to another. I can’t tell you
precisely what automobiles will be
like in the year 2000, but I can
give you this much of a predic-
tion: they will still move on four
wheels and be powered by comi-
bustion engines fuelled by liquid
petroleum.
@—l.ee A. Iacocca

President, Ford Motor Com-
pany.
(Early the next year, Iacocca was
quoted 2s saying: ‘‘Three years
ago, how did I know that the

‘name of the game would be

miles-per-gallon instead of how
fast you can go from a stop-
light?’’) :
Aerodynamic torture of inno-
cent air must cease. A 60 mpg,
(wo-passenger commuter car Is
not only possible but an academic
must’ for our energy survival.
Without mobility there can be no
prosperity. Period!
@ —Aiex Sarantos Trerulis
Independent Designer.

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