When independent U.S. automakers started their postwar sales race, Nash got off to a slow start. It clunked along with an overstuffed, bathtublike car while Studebaker lengthened its lead in the No. 1 independent position behind the Big Three. But this week Nash took the wraps off a new 1952 model that made motorists and competitors sit up & take notice.
The new Nash Statesman and Ambassador (Nash's small car, the Rambler, is essentially unchanged) are clean and speedy-looking, with sloping hoods that give them greater road vision than many other U.S. cars. The...
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