Whoa, a Chevy Vega built like a tank? I can't let a comment like that go unchallenged! My dad bought three of them because they were cheap, and they were consistently the junkiest cars we ever owned, or have still ever owned (perhaps only rivaled by a 1983 Chevy Cavalier).
There was always a Chevy Vega beneath every cloud of thick blue smoke on the highway, thanks to its rattle-can block. The door panels rusted off, the hinges sagged, the engine rattled and knocked over 60 mph, burned and blew smoke, rust magnet, cheap, falling apart interiors.
Cheap junk is the only way to describe a Chevy Vega, so let's not make out like they are better than they really were. The Chevy Vega was an embarrassment that everyone would just as soon quietly forget. Please don't hold it up as a paragon of American manufacturing quality.
And now the same exact thing is happening to Toyota. The media has made a circus out of the recall fiasco, when in reality the actual number of faulty parts is low. Funny how that works huh?
12th Feb 2012, 07:46
Whoa, a Chevy Vega built like a tank? I can't let a comment like that go unchallenged! My dad bought three of them because they were cheap, and they were consistently the junkiest cars we ever owned, or have still ever owned (perhaps only rivaled by a 1983 Chevy Cavalier).
There was always a Chevy Vega beneath every cloud of thick blue smoke on the highway, thanks to its rattle-can block. The door panels rusted off, the hinges sagged, the engine rattled and knocked over 60 mph, burned and blew smoke, rust magnet, cheap, falling apart interiors.
Cheap junk is the only way to describe a Chevy Vega, so let's not make out like they are better than they really were. The Chevy Vega was an embarrassment that everyone would just as soon quietly forget. Please don't hold it up as a paragon of American manufacturing quality.