Thanks for the interesting read.
All these articles from the 80s and early 90s make me wonder - what has happened to the American driving style in the past decade? Why most new american vehicles didn't even have the option for a manual gearbox, or if they did it was a rarity?
It's amazing to think that some people actually considered some of those to be fast cars, especially when most modern lawn mowers have more power.
And Jupiter is mostly gasYeah, but those modern law mowers weight as much as jupiter.
It was heading for an almost-all-automatic-trans market back in the 60s and 70s, then we had the two gas crises and the unwashed masses went to manual cars as a money/fuel saving option.
Now, we could all have stayed there, but then city traffic got *really* bad, so people went back to auto boxes even on econoboxen because sitting in traffic with a manual can suck.
People here are lazy.
And what's with their use of a B-70 in the background, the overweight muscle car of the Mach 3 crowd? They should've had a Starfighter instead. End airplane pedantry.
People here are lazy.
There's some of that, but there's also the whole "have to replace clutches every 30,000 miles because of the 60-mile-each-way commute between Orange County and Pasadena that takes three hours and involves lots of clutch slippage" issue...
People are lazy.
See, GM can never make an extraordinary overall car, just a few extraordinary features on a car.
The Sunfire I used to own? It was a piece of junk, but by far the best throttle feel and control I have felt in ANY car, and I have driven a few exotics in my time. It was almost telepathic.
The Sunfire I used to own? It was a piece of junk, but by far the best throttle feel and control I have felt in ANY car, and I have driven a few exotics in my time. It was almost telepathic.