B6 - Sunday, April 18, 1982 - North Shore News

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FIRST 10 DAYS
April sales are down ©

DETROIT (UPI) - U.S.
automakers’ late March sales
boom turned into a bust in
the first 10 days of April with
the firms reporting car sales

down 18.2 percent from
1981.
Also, auto-related

negotiations proceeded in
two different hemispheres.
The United Auto Workers
and American Motors Corp.
resumed stalled talks in
Milwaukee on a $150 million
employee investment
program. The main issue in
the new round of on-again,
off-again negotiations is the
number of supervisors AMC
has at its plants, said UAW

Secretary Treasurer
Raymond Majerus.

Nearly 7,000 miles away,
General Motors Corp. and
Toyota Motor Co. began
three days of secrecy
shrouded negotiations in
Nagoya, Japan, on the
possible joint production of
small, fuel-efficient autos.

Sales in the last 10 days of
March had gone up about 22
per cent as car buyers rushed
to take advantage of expiring
rebate programs.

In the aftermath, the
automakers sold = 133,502
autos during the April 1-10
period, down 18.2 per cent
from 163,242 sold in 198}.
Only Chrysler Corp. posted a

small sales increase in the
opening third of the month.

So far this year, 1,534,189
autos have been sold, down
19 per cent from 1,895,711
to date in 1981.

GM said it sold 76,093
cars in the first 10 days.
down 19.1 per cent from last
year’s 94,023. The
automaker's sales so far this
year are down 21 per cent.

“IT would point out that it’s
the first period following the
end of our two month in-
centive programs,” said GM
spokesman Harold Jackson,
“and it’s still a little early to
be the effects of our 12.8 per
cent interest rates which we
will offer for the next two

months.”

GM posted a whopping 53
per cent sales boom at the
end of March as its rebate
program ran out.

Ford Motor Co. said it
sold 32,214 autos in the first
10 days. down 20.7 per cent
from 40,621 in 1981. Ford
recorded a 2 per cent sales
increase in the last third of
March. So far this year, Ford
sales are down 12.2 per cent.

Chrysler's 2 per cent sales
increase was the only one
recorded by the firms. It sold
20,852 autos in the first 10
days compared to 20,444 last
year. So far this year, us
sales are down 16.3 per cent.

ICBC premiums the lowest

A NATIONWIDE review of
auto insurance rates reveals
that British Columbia
premiums are among the
lowest in Canada.

It confirms a_ report
released recently by the
Ontario Department of
Insurance which showed
that premium rates in that
province are significantly
higher than those paid by
B.C. motorists.

This latest survey, carried
out by a national
management consultant on
behalf of the Insurance
Corporation of British
Columbia, compares sample
premiums paid in Vancouver
and Victoria to five major
cities of equivalent size.

“These figures are par-
ticularly encouraging when
you consider that our ac-
cident rate here in B.C. is

the Inghest in the country
and that we also have the
highest labor rates and parts
prices,” said Tom Holmes,
President of the Insurance
Corporation.

“We hope this survey will
assure B.C. motorists that
Autoplan insurance
premiums compare most
favorably with = private
schemes across the nation.”

Sample premiums in the
survey are based on a mature
— over 30 — person, driving
a 1981 Chevrolet Caprice,
for pleasure only, with a
three year claim free record.
Coverage quoted 1s_ for
$500,000 liability, $250
deductible collision ($200 in
B.C.) and $50 deductible
comprehensive.

Results show that) in
comparison to Toronto and
Montreal, the Vancouver
rate of $444 was almost $200

Car rally is coming soon

A CAR rally will be held at
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Registration is $4 ($2 each
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Check all braking systems, service and adjust
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