R A Bennell wrote:
I had a 74 Vega brand new. The sheetmetal was recycled and rusted and it was noisy but it was a cheap fuel efficient car and served me well for the roughly 3 years that I drove it. I'm in Canada so the prices may be out of whack for you but I paid $2850 for it brand new and got $1450 on a trade for a 77 Mercury 3 years later. Depreciation of less than $500 per year on a new car is not bad.
They had a *terrible* reputation in the U.S, and not just for rusting. They supposedly used so much oil that GM did a recall to link the ignition to the oil pressure sender, so the engine would shut off if you ran the car out of oil. My dad bought one new and had a really hard time getting rid of it -- car lots would only deal with him if he promised to drive the Vega back off the lot instead of trading it in.
