On 27 Jan 2020 at 12:47, Mr. Sharkey via EV wrote: > The Chevy Vega might be more respected if GM had been at the > crest of the small car wave during the 1974-ish gas "crisis", instead > of gasping for air after it rolled over them carrying Toyota, Datsun > and Honda to success.
I'm not so sure. There was nothing good about that car, from front fenders that rusted in a year to overheated, seized engines. Or are you suggesting that they might have produced something usable had they been manufacturing small cars for as long as the Japanese automakers had? The odd thing is that they had. GM owned Opel. I'll never understand why they didn't just run the Opel Ascona (sold here for a while as the Opel 1900) design through a Xerox machine in Detroit. If memory serves, the two were about the same size, but the Opel was a vastly superior machine. Funny how things have changed, though. In 1970, Toyota was in the front row when drivers were waiting in gas station lines that stretched round the block. Corollas arrived at US dealers and were gone within 24 hours, sold to the next person on the waiting list for hundreds above sticker price. Now, incredibly, GM is actually ahead of Toyota in EVs. Who would have thought it? David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
