[driftdiver]

IMO anything GM puts out hurts their reputation.

[DemonDeac]

Much of the hole GM is in is because of decades of poorly made crap that they foisted on us. They felt entitled to our business. This gave rise to Japanese companies who made better cars. GM is making better cars than before but in few segments are they as good as the Japanese. People like me who American companies drove into the arms of Honda aren’t switching back without being given a gigantic reason and so far GM’s products aren’t at all compelling enough to win me back. I’m very, very, very happy with my current company and you don’t change horses in mid-stream without good reason.

[DemonDeac]

“Cadillac tried to sell the Cimarron as a domestic alternative to cars like the BMW 3 Series—that was just pathetic. Not surprisingly, practically no one fell for it and the Cimarron never sold well. But to many people, this proved that GM at the time had little regard for the storied and significant Cadillac brand.”

That one was a stunner! Slap a Caddy badge on a god-awful Chevy Caviler and pretend its like a BMW!

[Rummyfan]

GM has made some clunkers over the years - the Vega, the Cimarron. It has taken them a long time to alienate their customers but they did it!

But anyone who bought an Aztec has only themselves to blame!

[Malone LaVeigh]

My first car was a ‘72 Chevy Vega. What a POS! I had to put a quart of oil in it everytime I filled the gas tank.

[caver]

They forgot to add the late 70’s into 80’s trucks rusting away.

[pnh102]

I came from a family of GM car owners. The first and second cars I purchased on my own were Hondas. Aside from the shoddy quality, each dollar pumped into GM, Ford or Chrysler ends up feeding the UAW and helping the liberals, so screw them.

[2banana]

I would agree on ALL except the Hummer.

The people I know who own Hummers love them. And they love them because they are SO politically uncorrect. The Hummer has a great underground following.

It is an excellent car off-road and has great towing.

It is also a status symbol (like the people who drive $100,000 Mercedes). It makes people heads turn. And the people who buy $70,000 Hummers don't really care too much if gas is $3 or $5 dollars a gallon.

The Hummer is never going to be the #1 car in America (or even #30). But GM makes a profit on everyone and there is demand for them. Too bad other GM cars are not like that...because you put a string of cars like that together and all of a sudden you have a profitable company.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Best car I ever owned was a 1973 Cutlass “S”. Once the pollution control junk was ripped out, the Pontiac 350 engine was simplicity itself to tune, it was OK on gas and it was very, very fast and extremely reliable.

They don’t make ‘em like they used to. More’s the pity!

[2banana]

Go look at any economy Toyota or Honda from 1971-1977. They are even UGLIER than the Vega...

GM was introducing the H2 (and establishing Hummer dealerships) at just about the same time that Toyota was taking the green-tech high ground with vehicles like the Prius and other hybrids.

I have to throw the BS flag on this. Toyota and Honda both came out with some very poor milage monster trucks and SUVs at this same time also...

[ml/nj]

Surprised the Malibu (at least from several years ago) isn't on the list. What a POS! I always dreaded getting one when I rented.

ML/NJ

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Hehe. Chevy Chevette. I owned one of those back in the late '70s.
It was brand new and was a chocolate/coppertone metallic color. I put 5 spoke Cragar mags on it with 60 series raised-white-letter tires on the rear and 70 series RWL on the front. Fibreglas fender flares and a ground effect kit for the front...it was one bad-ass looking chariot. I even had a Hurst aluminum shifter knob on the shift handle.
100% 'show'...absolutely no 'go'.

[autumnraine]

I called my parents Citation, The dominoe effect car. Once you got one thing fixed, it wouldn’t be a week until something else went wrong.

And my mother almost died in a Chevette from a crash that wasn’t going more than 15 mph. She ended up practically under the hood. She never would get into anything else like that and drove a Olds Cutlass until she passed away a few years back.

[Jeff Head]

Screw political correctness.

I need a pick up to haul a chord of wood, 4 wheelers, equipment, dirt, etc.

GM produces the best line of pick-ups (IMHO) to accomplish that, maintain their value, and offer very decent maintainability in that regard.

I buy a fuel efficient car for my wife to get back and forth to grocery shopping, errands, and her work. I buy a vehicle for my purposes that can do the work, be maintained, and offer good resell value when it is time to replace it. GM has offered such vehicles for what I need and I do not apologize to anyone for buying them and using them.

[nevergore]

I owned a Chevette during the last big gas crisis during Jimmy Carter’s reign...

3-4? speed manual transmission and peppy litle engine, stripped interior, AM radio no airconditioning.....

I drove that thing like a maniac in Washington DC traffic and parked in the tiniest spaces.

Loved that little car, bought it new from the dealer for $2995

Abused the heck out of it (60K miles) until I sold it in 1982 for $3400

[stylin19a]

yikes...

i’ve had 2 Vegas, a chevette, (plus a Caddy Fleetwood HT4100, which isn't mentioned but should be on this list)

[LongTimeMILurker]

Oh, like the Yugo and the Renault Dauphine were so great. Funny, when I think of the worst cars ever made, i think foreign every time.

You guys got to get a grip. You claim to support our military, and yet you would gut all manufacturing from out nation, making us even more vulnerable once a pro-America government is back in power, and dependent on other countries for military equipment.

[ken21]

that’s funny!

i remember all of that junk. i worked with a guy that had a citation and he looked like his car.

not to mention, he had a brain fungus.

gm’s prototypes always made me look and sometimes want, but they’d build some pos.

[Lx]

Are you kidding? I love the Vega. If nothing else, it taught me how to turn a wrench. Multiple engines and rebuilds (buy a sleeved block) , body work, two rear ends, what a deal.

I've even been looking at Cosworth Vegas to see how much they go for.

[OKSooner]

Chevrolet Monza.