13th Sep 2021, 21:46
Maybe you should be directing your comments towards the ones made on other reviews by other posters to this site. The ones who claim that old cars were built so much better, lasted longer, were more reliable and cheaper to maintain than late model cars.
None of the "above comments" falls into that description.
14th Sep 2021, 03:17
I agree this was not the best time for automotive engineering. That being said two transmissions and one rear end over the span of 25k miles is still excessive. Cars weren’t great, but they weren’t that bad.
13th Sep 2021, 19:54
Cadillac like many other manufacturers had warning lights on the dashboard that came on shortly before the issues actually occurred. Cadillac in the late 70s also used a rock solid cast iron 425 CID V8 that had barely any if no reliability issues at all. It all depended on the type of vehicle it was from the late 70s. The V8 larger bodied cars from GM, Ford and even Chrysler had no problem rolling the odometer and lasting many miles beyond.