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To: wardaddy; billbears; archy
Lets face it - car designers sucked from about 76 to 85.

Thats when you get the following:

Cheap vinyl dashes that split and start that sticky chemical breakdown after 2 years.

Cheap thin vinyl and/or velour seats that wear out split in 3 years.

Cheap feeling and chintzy looking knobs and switches with that fake silver crap that started chipping after a year, if it hadn't fallen off already.

Lousy regulating computers that were grotesquely expensive to replace - which happened too frequently.

Using that same cheap silver crap to cover exterior plastic decoration, none of which could take a good washing.

Can anybody forget that feeling of the power of accelerating from 0-40 in 18.7 seconds?

Sterring that was excessively tight - where a slight twist would swerve the car excessively. I suppose that was supposed to make the car appear "responsive".

Engines that were impossibly crammed into compartments - and which so resembled something cobbled together by kids at a middle school science fair, you were afraid to touch anything for fear of wrecking the whole thing.

Catalytic converters that reeked.

All these features were finally rolled into one model by Chrysler, infamous maker of the K car.....

241 posted on 10/01/2003 6:17:04 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (....try weasel, the other yellow meat....)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
amen...the k-car.....our answer to the Lada.
257 posted on 10/01/2003 8:48:37 AM PDT by wardaddy (The Lizard King it was.....)
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