Posted on 04/24/2011 3:43:16 PM PDT by Nachum
When it comes to quality, efficiency, reliability, safety and overall value, these vehicles bring up the rear.
By all accounts, Detroit's Big Three automakers have begun producing better-made, longer lasting, more efficient vehicles. It's a distinct change from the 1990s and early 2000s, when they fell behind their European and Asian counterparts in each category.
"This change is not even a gradual thing," says Christine Overstreet, an automotive consultant and director of Heels and Wheels. "It's like they've said, 'OK, we really want to step it up, we really want to compete, we're ready.' After past years of being so bad, they've really stepped up their game."
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And you strike me as a gelding.
I defend GM and you compare it to Ford......oy, some kind of logic there.....
Ahhhhhh, I really miss those days....****sigh****
It has the 91C Police package.
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The police package was always 9C1 for Chevy ,, Ford Crown Vic is P71 ... I don’t know what the worst car was but the best was the 1975-1979 Chevy Nova 9C1 ... 350/turbo400/12bolt/hot suspension/Caprice brakes and great looks...
AAaahhh...Pintos....I tell ya. I have a pic that’s an over head shot of a house my hubby and I lived in on the Snoqualmie River (Washington State) back in the eighties. At the time, we had a Pinto graveyard, and I was driving a
Pinto station wagon! The shot shows not only his 68 Camaro, and his 64 snub nosed Chevy van, but also FOUR other Pinto hatchbacks, and my stationwagon.
My sister-in-law was just involved in a rear end collision in a Ford Focus. The back seat is designed to crumble and fall backwards. Had anyone been in the back (like kids) they would have been killed. As it was, my sister-in-law needed months of therapy.
I don't believe these cars are "safer" then they were 15 years ago. They have sacrificed safety at the expense of efficiency.
Wonderful, good memories!!!
Wonderful, good memories!!!
Well, you best include, Monte Carlo, De Ville, Trans Am, X19, and about a hundred other cars I've owned in the last 50 years.
Your deflections don not work, try again....
Yep! And, the '69 Z28 with the 302 with numbers matching, in superb condition, is going for hundreds of thousands of dollars!
GM failed for a reason and that's still with the company. Who would build Obama's 8 mpg stretch limos tanks or the "green economy" darling Volt?
It's disappointing but reality often is. There's no reason we must have "the Big Three" automakers. Detroit's heyday is long gone. Obama's Treasury Dept clearly has no faith in GM or it wouldn't be selling stock for billions in losses.
The domestics all did quite well when they had no competition and where the only game in town. Once they had to start competing with the Japanese their cars where revealed for the garbage that they truly where. Those early Japanese cars weren’t so hot either, but they where Swiss watches compared to the domestic junk. Sorry, I love those old classics, especially muscle cars, but they where not well made cars.
However this one is spot on in accuracy, if not originality. American cars have been junk all of my life and I’m old.
See how low your expectations of American cars are? They’re supposed to be like that!
My 1976 Ford Granada.
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