<VV> X cars and A cars

[Karl Haakonsen]

The Celebrity was Chevy's "A" body entry, which was essentially the same 
car as the Buick Century, the Pontiac 6000 and the Olds Cutlass Ciera. I 
believe they came out in 1982. The X cars were introduced in the 1980 
model year and were the Chevy Citation, the Buick Skylark, the Olds 
Omega and the Pontiac Phoenix.

The X cars had a bad rap for quality, and had a number of recalls; the 
A-body cars were not so plagued. I had two X cars, a 1980 and a 1981 
Buick Skylark, both with the 2.8L V6. I didn't have any real problems 
with either.

On 6/18/2012 1:46 PM, Bryan Blackwell wrote:
> The X body Chevy was the Citation.  Yes, the Celebrity was also a Chevy, but it followed the Citation by several years.
>
> A little Corvair content - when the Citation was introduced, Car and Driver did a comparison article between it and the Corvair since they were both quite revolutionary.  I'm sure James has a copy of the magazine in his archives.
>
> --Bryan
>
> On Jun 18, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Ken Clark wrote:
>
>> also remember seeing a guy hanging on a door to try to get it to close and there were a number of cars lined for body work. Wasn't the Celebrity a Chevy?  I know, it's been a long time ago.   Ken
>>
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