n the olden days, when car companies brought a new model out, usually the entire range would be sorted at once — from the lowliest bare-bones stripper to the most fancifully festooned variant. Oh, there would occasionally be some mid-year introduction of a special sales package or a performance variant but, in an epoch when yearly body and trim changes were the norm, there wasn’t much time to mess around: all of it needed to be ready at launch in September.
