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Page THE HERALD Saturday August 1980 Just what is going on in auto land Treat pizza equally KEEPING YOUR CAR ALIVE Some news and views you might use If you remember I like Ike but tons and hula hoops then perhaps you also recall when even middleclass folks traded in their cars on a new model every year That quaint custom has long since disappeared By the mid1970s the typical newcar buyer kept his vehicle for nearly four years Now according to the Motor and Equipment facturers Association buyers are holding od for nearly six years The reason Cost of course The re tail cost of new cars more than bled between 1978 and 1988 making frequent car tradeins an ble luxury for most of us Cadillac will introduce a domes tic autoindustry first electronic traction control on the model If driver applies too much power for road conditions and the drive wheels start to spin an on board computer will automatically apply the brakes to slow the wheels until they regain adhesion If the driv er persists in stomping the accelera tor pedal computer will cut down on toe fuel supplied to the engine Sophisticated electronic marvels like traction control require sophisti cated auto mechanics According to the Automotive Information Council mechanics must learn more about new systems every year than me chanics in the 1950s and 1960s had to learn in years Despite salaries that can reach a year there aren t enough mechanics well trained in these new tangled electronics In fact the Good year Tire Rubber Company esti mates there is only one auto mechanic for every cars on Americas roads Having your Chrysler products fixed should be easier in the future be cause of a new advanced IBM com maintenance system Chrysler mechanics will plug your car into the computer and then mom tor all the car electrical circuits for problems When a glitch is found the computer will lead the mechanic step by step through service procedures The coin of the realm is what Chrysler insiders are calling the hot selling Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager mmivans While the chase rate for all vans is percent its a hefty 75 percent at Chrysler the highest in the industry Despite new and improved vans from rivals General Motors and Ford next year Chrysler president Bob professes no worry But he does admit to concern about Toyotas new coming in the spring of 1990 It s a sleek midengine van with seats that can fold away allowing the own to carry a foot sheet of plywood is on a roll share percent is nearly a point higher than a year ago Sales of its Ri viera Reatta Skylark and models are all up significantly Buicks boss Ed Mertz believes that a recent consumer survey rank Buick as the best built domestic and the as the most trouble free American car has helped sales Americans fretting about compe from Japanese automakers alone Europeans are anxious too Within the next five years allofJa pans major automakers will be man ufactunng cars in Europe and some analysts predict the Japanese will capture a 25percent share 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present Dion This could mean Lash blips that set out for consumers the amount of tax they pay And shelf prices thai list both the price of he goods and the federal tax Also Wilson to investigate unfair pricing practices arising from the new law Another area of criticism was the impact the GST would have on home buyers The government estimates that owners of existing homes have already paid sales tax on materials of at out per cent and that is incorporated in current home prices so there will be no charge on resold dwellings In the case of new homes the nine per cent will be charged but half of hat typically will be paid back as a rebate on houses priced up to in the high cost Toronto Ihe GST would only raise typical house prices by 1 per cent Wilson irgues Small businesses in par art upset at the burden col lecttng the tax will place on them Wilson promised in exemption Tor businesses with sales of less than 000 annually which removes another outlets from the GSI rolls Ottawa will also 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