Yep, and I own two minivans and a pickup, but not for reasons of safety. I also ride a motorcycle when weather permits and they typically don't fair nearly as well safety-wise, but are great from a fuel mileage perspective.
Matt
Yep, and I own two minivans and a pickup, but not for reasons of safety. I also ride a motorcycle when weather permits and they typically don't fair nearly as well safety-wise, but are great from a fuel mileage perspective.
Matt
the '80s Jaguar XJ6 / XJ12s used to do that - they had fuel tanks in each rear quarter which would burst and spray fuel into the interior.. Changed with the XJ40s
the Kadett was a horrible piece of shit, with a rusty body, awful gearbox and weak 4 cyl thrashy engine. The brakes were great and the handling was pretty good for a small car, but the build quality sucked..
I had one ...
Dave Milne, Scotland '99 TJ 4.0 Sahara
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: >Lloyd Parker wrote: : >
: >> Yeah, we got Pintos, Vegas, and Gremlins. : >
: >I can't speak to Vegas and Gremlins, but I did own a shiny new 1972 Pinto. : The : >only import car in the same price range that was better in my opinion was the : >Datsun 510 (and it was more expensive). The low cost Toyotas available in the : >Eastern US in 1972 were low grade junk and too small inside besides. : : I had a 1972 Corolla that was an excellent entry-level car. Opel was also : selling Kadetts and 1900s that were good cars. : : : >The VWs : >sold at that time were laugable. The 510 was a great little car. I probably : >would have bought one if there had been a dealer in my home town. The biggest : >problem the US companies had was their desire to not build low price cars : that : >would take sales away from their other models. : >
: >Ed : >
Too bad they never imported the Holden Torana--a slightly lengthened, reinforced Kadett that in one version, Holden actually had plans to stuff a 5-liter V8 into. They were also available in left-hand drive versions until about 1980, and the post-1974 models were actually slightly larger than Vegas (101" wheelbase), and _were_ available with 5-liter engines (or fours or sixes), as well as radial tuned rally suspension.
--Aardwolf.
real bad boys cars those. Lots on the road here in NZ, now they're a popular Drag conversion car, with big tubbed wheels and a 5.7L cehv 350ci engine running Menthol with a turbo per 2 cylinders.
rhys
I'm glad I didn't know that when I had one!
-- Rickety
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