<VV> Top 10 biggest duds - Classic & Sports Car March 2009

[Bill Elliott]

Their hit on the Pacer was (basically) that it was not really small, 
economical, nice to drive, etc... it basically had all of the "bad" big 
car attributes wrapped up with all the "bad" small car attributes in a 
badly compromised package with none of the positive aspects of either... 
without even the benefit of pleasing styling.... in summary a 
(relatively) cramped ugly car that drove poorly and still got horrible 
mileage.

Essentially the way the US has always built "small" cars (save for the 
Corvair). I'm paraphrasing (having already archived last month's C&SC 
mag in a fit of spring cleaning the office) but as I recall that was the 
gist.

The UK didn't get the huge onslaught of Japanese cars as early as we 
did, so were spared from many of the worst ones. In exchange, they got a 
lot of the really bad European cars that we didn't...

Bill

airvair at earthlink.net wrote:

>I'd have to disagree on the Pacer. It was no more of a "bad car" than any
>other AMC car. It (like the Gremlin) simply looked odd. Even if styling was
>the only criteria, there are far worse looking cars than the Pacer (which
>IMHO wasn't bad in "wagon" form).
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>What's conspicuously missing are all the early (first ones imported into
>the US in the '50's and '60's) Japaneese cars, like the Toyopet. Now THOSE
>were some really horrible cars!
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>-Mark
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>>[Original Message]
>>Subject: Re: <VV> Top 10 biggest duds - Classic & Sports Car March 2009
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>> Well, I think we can all agree, this is a list of some REALLY bad cars!
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rodney Spooner <corvairenterprises at yahoo.com>
>>Subject: <VV> Top 10 biggest duds - Classic & Sports Car March 2009
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>>1. Austin A90 Atlantic
>>2. Lea-Francis Lynx
>>3. Triumph TR7
>>4. Renault Colorale
>>5. AMC Pacer
>>6. Daimler SP250
>>7. Austin 3 Litre
>>8. BMW 501 & 502 'Baroque Angels'
>>9. Citroen Birotor
>>10. Talbot Tagora
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