A lot, if not most, North American cars of that vintage were pretty much
junk. The cars from the 1960's were better. We had a 1977 Monarch. It
was not a good car. Don't really know if the comparable Chevy was any
better but we test drove a Nova at the time and thought the interior on
it really looked and felt cheap. The Monarch was underpowered and didn't
handle all that well but the interior looked and felt fairly good and it
served us reasonably well for a long while. I think we had it for about
13 years. We bought it new and drove it while I was in university. It
became a second car in about 1984 and we finally sold it in about 1990.
We had very few issues with it. The only thing that was a bit
troublesome was the old style power steering. I think I replaced one
piece of it 3 times.
Randy
On 08/07/2022 4:22 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote:
My brother had a Granada. Even with my limited car experience at the time, I
knew it was clearly a POS car. And it was.
-D
On Jul 8, 2022, at 4:28 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
At age 15, riding along when my Dad test-drove the Granada that
ended up replacing our Park Lane, I thought the damned thing was
broken, it was so noisy in comparison.
Worst. Trade. Ever. Smaller, worse-built, noisier, slower, with a
stumble off the line, and nearly the same (poor) gas mileage. One
would expect a 302 to be slightly thriftier than a 390, but such was
not the case. Probably handled worse, too.
-- Jim
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