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Cars today, yuck.
Over priced proprietary parts, the $1,000+ headlight.
Proprietary parts that won’t be available 6 years after the last one runs from the assembly line.
Over complex and difficult to trouble shoot.
Over sensitive because of all the over engineered and complex systems, electronics, that make the vehicle unreliable especially as it ages.
Super small, tight and light, the modern car drags your rear on the road, rides hard, doesn’t allow you to spread out or swing the legs up and take a nap in it (the Euro seating and more stiff suspension - no more bench seating, no leg room, hard sporty ride, poor sound proofing.)
Saving the world the modern car, though significant advancement in safety have been made, is generally lighter and small, and that works against safety (more violent acceleration in an impact, less space to trade.)
My assessment: the modern car is a plastic POS. A near disposable product with a practical useful life of 12-14 years before it’s ready for salvage. And then we talk about the “environment.” Durability / reliability / maintainability have gone backwards, but we have more USB ports!
They should have done this with a VW beetle. It would have started right up. At least with a clutch pop with a roll down the hill
At least it wasn’t a Pinto, lol.
And cup holders.................
My very 1st car was a Vega. Dark green with beige top.
My dad had an early ‘70s Toyota Celica. Very reliable car. I had an ‘81 Honda Accord sedan. Also very reliable. Excellent paint. I didn’t have a car with a better paint job until a ‘99 Audi A6, so almost 20 years later.
73 here brand new .
The agenda is that car manufacturers are using the computer model of the sale.
Throw aways.
Does the cigarette lighter work?
Does the cigarette lighter work?
Hahaha. I just come here for the jokes. Good show!
Why didn’t they choose something nice like an AMC Gremlin?
I’d gladly pay the 1975 retail price for it without even taking it for a test ride.
A buddy of mine had a Vega wagon. He dropped a SBC 350 into it. I blew him away at the 1/4 mile track,, but going home he would get on the highway and I wouldn’t see him for the next 20 miles - when we stopped at the McDonalds near home.
The Vega was the worse car I’ve ever seen.
In 1972 at the dealer I got into one with the salesman to do a test drive, I didn’t even put the key in before I said this car is pure junk and told the salesman I don’t need to drive it, just getting in showed me this was junk, we both got out and I left.
I bought a Toyota Corolla instead.
I had a pinto. Traded it in after 75,000 miles with no major repairs.
Car and Driver: 1974 Chevrolet Cosworth Twin Cam Vega
I recall going with a friend to a Chevy dealership to ask about this car, the idiot salesman had never even heard of it.
I lived in Germany in 1975 and drove an Opel 1600 which was a fine car and kept up with most of the cars on the autobahn. Had enough room for my family of 5 to tour europe. Flew home next to an executive from GM and asked him why they didn’t just import that car since they owned Opel, instead of building the Vega and the Chevette, both crappy cars. He gave me a lame non-answer about parts and manufacturing issues. They didn’t know what they had.
I wonder what it’ll go for on Mecum.
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