16th Apr 2018, 21:45
So you love the new domestics today is another way to word it.
16th Apr 2018, 23:51
There are a total of 41 Chevette reviews on here and only 4 are bad. I would never own one and it's not exactly GM'S finest hour, but I can tell you that many people criticize the car because it was cheap. Fit and finish weren't great, interior quality was horrible and so on. This doesn't mean that the car was unreliable. If it was so bad, it wouldn't have had an 11 year production run. There was a lot worse including GM's own Vega and Astre, the Citation X body along with its siblings. These cars barely made it a half decade before they got axed. GM had it right with their body on frame RWD cars, along with Ford. It wasn't just "the big three" with low quality back in the "malaise era". Imports include Renault, just about everything made by Hyundai, Mitsubishi, and of course the infamous Yugo GV.
As far as the"big three" having "their act together" today; do you really think Chrysler is a candidate? I don't. They were in turmoil since the 70s, and if it wasn't for Lee Iacocca and the minivan that saved their ass in the 80s, they would probably be long gone today. The only thing helping the company now is the Jeep division, Ram fleet sales and Dodge Challengers, and once the Hemi V8 is dropped the Challenger probably won't appeal to anybody in the muscle car market.
16th Apr 2018, 18:59
Gee, I guess the author of this review must have really been exaggerating about the title "one of the best cars ever made". You may have been old enough to remember cars from this era, but were you old enough to own or drive one?