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on: 05-22-2010
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| #5 |
8-09-2014 @ 11:13:54 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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1975ish-1983ish wasn't a good time to be a domestic auto maker, but, the K car is indeed the best of the lot of really really bad cars that came out around that time.
I think it's Yugo Syndrome, everyone knows what a Yugo is, but only the car purists remember the other two Bricklin-flops, the SV1 and the Subaru 360, because they failed so spectacularly, they passed from public consciousness quickly, like last seasons' cancelled sitcoms.
It's the only car anyone REMEMBERS, even though it was either on par with it's contemporaries, maybe even better.
Is anyone going to call the Hyundai Excel a great car? How about the various GM FWD rebadges like the "Nova" and "LeMans", aside from the crappy X-bodies? It's just that nobody remembers them being sold alongside the Aries. I think the fact Chrysler had to get a Govt. bailout and had only started to emerge from possible extinction makes people think they were especially lousy, when in reality, just about everyone was when it came to QC
[Edited by Low-Tech Redneck on 8-09-2014 @ 11:17:45 PM]
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8-09-2014 @ 11:17:31 PM |
| Posted By : ricerocketboy |
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Why is it Chrysler that always has to borrow money? I also remember an old article about Fiat buying them in the early 1990s, and then even possibly buying GM as well. I wonder what would've happened had that gone through?
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8-10-2014 @ 01:25:40 AM |
| Posted By : ricerocketboy |
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#7, Indeed. I think the Chrysler/Mitsu partnership benefitted Chrysler far more than Mitsubishi, sadly to say. :(
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8-10-2014 @ 06:08:25 AM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#8, I dunno, it gave Mitsubishi a springboard to gain serious foothold in the US market. On the other hand, the poor reliability of the Mitsubishi-built captive imports like the Dodge Colt and the Plymouth Arrow didn't really help Chrysler's brand image much.
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