B11 - Sunday, July 11, 1982 - North Shore News

-(UPI)U.S. automakers, who
tried to lure car buyers to
showrooms in June without
major incentive programs,
posted the worst June sales
figures in nearly 25 years.
The plunge followed a
May sales increase, the first
of the model year, and

fueled speculation General
Motors Corp. would in-
stitute some kind of sales

promotion to salvage
_ summer sales.
Total June sales were

647,340 compared to 721,
939 for June of 1981. A
decline of 11 per cent when

Japan agrees to
Canadian car talks

TOKYO (UPI) - Japan and
Canada have agreed to hold
working level talks in Ottawa
in mid-July in an attempt to
break a _ stalemate over
Japanese car exports to the
Canadian market.

Ministry of International
Trade and Industry officials
said Japan would ask Canada
in the Ottawa talks to ex-
pedite import procedures
that have stranded about
10,000 Japanese vehicles in
Vancouver.

The two countmes are at
odds over volume _ of
Japanese car imports this
year.

Canada insists Japanese
automobile imports this year
be limited at 146,000 units,
down 16 per cent from last
year, while Japan demands

the ceiling be maintained at
last year’s level of 174,000

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units.

The officials charged
Canadian customs officials
deliberately delay the
procedures to back up
Canada’s demand for cur-
tailment of Japanese car
imports.

Canadian officials claim
Japanese exports of
passenger cars and com-
mercial vehicles are hurting
national auto and related
industries.

Japan contends that
voluntary curbs on car
exports to Canada are aimed
mainly at preventing
Japanese vehicles shut_out
from the U.S. market to be

diverted to the Canadian
market.
Japanese auto makers

have agreed to limit their
shipments of new cars to the
U.S. this year at last year’s
level of 1.68 million units.

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Cancer of the Car

The following 1s an excerpt from a
bulletin put out by the Automotive
Retailers Association as a
customer information blurb. | sup
pose tl paid a professional
wordsmith to write it out, so far
be if from me to try and re explain
it to you So tf you will yust bear
with me

The body of your car starts to
detenorate soon ane it rolls off
the assembly line sure to
sunlight, moisture, ustrial alr
pollution, snow and loo and roads
treated with chemicals and salt
and sand, shortens the life of the
painted surface and rust may
develop

Rust can start anywhere trom in
side the hollow metal parts, hid
den seams, trom below metal sur
faces and from the outside

When you take the car to an auto
body shop for repairs, keep in
mind that the entire body has
been affected by corroston, some
areas worse then others

The repatr

men can try and

eliminate rust in several ways

1) the severely rusted sections can
be replaced with new material
This may be the most effictent

method of rust control but 1 wall
also be the costliest

2) Fibreglass, non porous oor
other fillers may be used

Pretty grim stuff, right? The way |
read it, tt is as if they are sayin
that your car is almost quaranteed
to contract skin cancer, at an ear
ly age age too. Try and remember that
at Crash Pad we have a lot
of things, but X Ray vision isn’t
one of them. Places where rust
already has started aren't always
easy to spot — and after a vehicle
s refinished, rust may again rear
its ugly head, even within days

No bodyman can be held res;
sible for a rust condition which
wag not detectable at the time of
repair, Nor ts it fatr to ask him to
do touch-u up work on freshly sur
faced rust of cha And try
ing to sweep It under the carpet by
just having new rust areas painted
over can just accelerate the pro
blem

Look at it Uke our economy |
would say severe, fresh, and
heavy duty rust spots are appear
tng tn It every day, It may even be
rusted out, tn fact, and | ont hear

anyone offering to bail us out of
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adjusted for the number of
sales days in the month.

U.S. automakers = sold
451,430 cars in June, down
13 per cent from 517,815 the
year-ago level. It was the
worst June showing since
1958,.

Foreign automakers’ share
of the June market was 30.3
per cent — up from 24 per
cent last month and the first
increase since January.
Foreign automakers last
month sold an_ estimated
196,000 cars, down 6 per
cent from 204,124 a year
ago.

If sales continue at the
June rate, 7.1 million cars
will have been sold by the
end of the year. Last year 8.3
milhon cars were sold — and
that was the worst showing
in over two decades.

Domestic auto sales for
the first six months of the
year were just over 2.9
million — the first time since
the 1950s U.S. automakers
failed to sell 3 million cars in
the first half of the year.

Foreign automakers so far

this year have sold nearly
1,093 million cars compared
to last year’s 1.265 million,
for an industry total of 4.028
million — down 12 per cent
from last year.

American Motor Corp.
posted June sales of 7,767
cars, down 20.1 per cent
from last year. Volkswagen
of America’s sales of 5,818
cars was down 32.5 per cent
from June 1981.

GM's sales, up in April
and May while 12.8 per cent
financing was offered on

new cars, dropped in Juné to ~

259,056 cars. GM
310,886 in June 1981.

But GM denied reports it
would soon offer a com-
bination rebate-financing
deal to car buyers.

sold

Ford Motor Co.’s sales in
June were 120,947 cars,
down 5 per cent from June
1981. Chrysler Corp. — the
only automaker offering
incentives on all models -
had June sales of 55,842
cars, off four per cent from
June 1981.

Tax should have been lifted

OTTAWA (UPC) — The
federal government should
have lifted the excise tax on
gasoline to help private
motorists, small businesses
and the tourism industry, the

11 July, 1982

As the
Sign Turns

Ta (im up the hint I several
weeks ago, will be
moving to the North Shore 1 August,
occupying the former Harbour Ci
e Welcome to the Nort
Shore, kamrades

Don Fleming, the West Van Don
Quixote and fatr tax

deserves a sustained round o! oP
plause for his forward 4

seemingly singlehanded Ueto in deal
4 tax problem that is really
a Sack tt to ‘em, Don | urge
all readers to pitch in behind him. any
way you can

dohn W. Newbern eaye: ‘People
can ba divided into three groups those
who make things happen, those who
watch things happen, and those who
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“The CAA will continue to
press for removal of the 1.5
cent per litre excise tax on
gasoline.” CAA president
Robert Richardson said.

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