I just smiled from ear to ear when I seen this!!!! My Ol' Lady is VERY similar to the 1 featured in the introduction. Same 2-tone Blue except (THANKFULLY) she's not a Landau. She's a Classic, factory buckets, w/console shifter...she's so damn sassy😍
Once you've gone hatchback, there's no going back to a sedan. The only way someone would get more usable space by moving up to a Malibu would be if they got a wagon.
@@nlpnt There was a hatchback prototype version but they nixed it. The angle of the rear window was too acute to lend itself to any usefulness like the Nova hatchback's gently sloping rear window did. I've had quite a few G bodies but my concern wasn't about space, they were all built to run SS/SG.
@@nlpnt I own sport sedan with r po41 sport suspension and I used to race BMWs with it Point 84 on the skid pad with Factory 14 inch tires gets better when you put wider fifteens on it
'Point out the luxury features' Yeah sure. Like rear windows that are fixed in place and don't roll down?! One of my friends' mom had one of these back in the day and I remember how cheap I thought they were for buying a car that you can't even roll the windows down on. How did they even get away with that? I mean just on safety alone that should have been a big no-no. Chrysler followed it up with the same thing in the first year K cars.
They weren't designed that way to be cheap. They were designed so that the armrests could be cut into the doors, adding about an extra 3" of elbow room to each side, while still making the door shells thinner. In fact, they called the larger door glass "picture windows", because they didn't have a divider bar in the middle, and it did improve rear seat visibility by a lot. By 1978 when this platform was introduced, almost all cars in this class were equipped with air conditioning, and nobody was running around with their windows open, because the cars were so quiet, and had such good ventilation. The early cars had quarter windows behind the door that opened, and flowed air much better with far less turbulence than a roll-down door window. I bought a '78 Malibu Classic new, ordered from the factory, and it was loaded with clever packaging ideas. The amount of room in a 108" wheelbase car was amazing. They were taller, and the seats were higher, so you sat more erect. In contemporary test reports, the engineers explained their rationale for many of these ideas. They said that the car was designed to be driven with the windows closed (which most people did anyway), and that it got noticeably better fuel mileage because the aerodynamics of a closed body shell were so much better...in fact, I remember that people were shocked to find out that most cars at that time got better mileage on the highway with the windows up and the air conditioning on than with the windows open and a/c off. Nobody remembers these cars much now, but all of GM's "downsized" cars (the B-body full-size in 1977, the A-body midsize in 1978, and the personal luxury cars in 1979) were all MAJOR improvements over what came before, and they were seen as much-superior to competing Ford and Chrysler products by all the car magazines at the time, which they were. They handled hugely better, and all had about the same interior room, but were much trimmer. Their mistake was that they started cheapening the mechanical hardware in subsequent years, which started to affect reliability...although that's also a bit unfair, because a lot of that was done to reduce weight, not just cost. They were desperate for fuel mileage increases in those years. Things like plastic brake bearing races, and lighter-duty automatic transmissions really undershot the mark. Good ideas, but underdeveloped, and it really, really hurt the company.
@@ChicagoDonny922 thank you for your response I have an A body an 80 Malibu 4 door with a 5-speed stick with a 267 do you have A or G Body also Keen observation about the sheet metal on the Pontiac LeMans and Grand Prix
@@jonpaulschafer1871 YOU have what I refer to for cool 4-doors & sexxxi wagons as: "Foxy Boxy Hottie Body's"!!!! I couldn't even IMAGINE how many mpg you're gettin' with an "appropriate" operating 267?!?! My Ol' Lady, Madame Maggie Mae Saturday an '81 A-body, last year of the coupé. "Pudder-Thudder" 267, stock sweep-style odometer/non-rally pack gauges (but buckets w/console shift?), MUD FLAPS & WHITE WALLS...BUT; SHE'LL BE REBIRTHED AS "THEE ONLYEST '81 MALIBU SS Z-16 396"!!!! ...With A/C of course...& 4-wheel disc brakes as well.
What a waste of money that formal roofline was. Better to spend the money on putting roll-down mechanisms in the rear door windows and give Buick-Olds a choice of adopting the Chevy-Pontiac 6-window notchback look or toughing it out with the dud Aerobacks until the new FWD As were ready in 1982.
I just smiled from ear to ear when I seen this!!!! My Ol' Lady is VERY similar to the 1 featured in the introduction. Same 2-tone Blue except (THANKFULLY) she's not a Landau. She's a Classic, factory buckets, w/console shifter...she's so damn sassy😍
This same man trashing on subcompacts was also selling Chevettes. And I love my Chevette. It's actually capable of hauling more than a full sized car.
Once you've gone hatchback, there's no going back to a sedan. The only way someone would get more usable space by moving up to a Malibu would be if they got a wagon.
@@nlpnt There was a hatchback prototype version but they nixed it. The angle of the rear window was too acute to lend itself to any usefulness like the Nova hatchback's gently sloping rear window did. I've had quite a few G bodies but my concern wasn't about space, they were all built to run SS/SG.
Video: “Sports Sedan!”
Me: I don’t think that means what you think it means
A sport sedan on Valium and a quart of vodka.
It used to mean "four-door hardtop" in Chevyspeak. This is not only a post sedan but has those fixed rear windows to add insult to injury.
@@nlpnt I own sport sedan with
r po41 sport suspension and I used to race BMWs with it Point 84 on the skid pad with Factory 14 inch tires gets better when you put wider fifteens on it
Yeah, just don't let the customers notice that the rear windows don't open at all.
Mention to the customers how your rear seat passenger will love shoving their faces through the window vents
They forgot to bring up the fuckin rear windows don't roll down on the 4doors lmao
'Point out the luxury features' Yeah sure. Like rear windows that are fixed in place and don't roll down?! One of my friends' mom had one of these back in the day and I remember how cheap I thought they were for buying a car that you can't even roll the windows down on. How did they even get away with that? I mean just on safety alone that should have been a big no-no. Chrysler followed it up with the same thing in the first year K cars.
They weren't designed that way to be cheap. They were designed so that the armrests could be cut into the doors, adding about an extra 3" of elbow room to each side, while still making the door shells thinner. In fact, they called the larger door glass "picture windows", because they didn't have a divider bar in the middle, and it did improve rear seat visibility by a lot. By 1978 when this platform was introduced, almost all cars in this class were equipped with air conditioning, and nobody was running around with their windows open, because the cars were so quiet, and had such good ventilation. The early cars had quarter windows behind the door that opened, and flowed air much better with far less turbulence than a roll-down door window. I bought a '78 Malibu Classic new, ordered from the factory, and it was loaded with clever packaging ideas. The amount of room in a 108" wheelbase car was amazing. They were taller, and the seats were higher, so you sat more erect. In contemporary test reports, the engineers explained their rationale for many of these ideas. They said that the car was designed to be driven with the windows closed (which most people did anyway), and that it got noticeably better fuel mileage because the aerodynamics of a closed body shell were so much better...in fact, I remember that people were shocked to find out that most cars at that time got better mileage on the highway with the windows up and the air conditioning on than with the windows open and a/c off.
Nobody remembers these cars much now, but all of GM's "downsized" cars (the B-body full-size in 1977, the A-body midsize in 1978, and the personal luxury cars in 1979) were all MAJOR improvements over what came before, and they were seen as much-superior to competing Ford and Chrysler products by all the car magazines at the time, which they were. They handled hugely better, and all had about the same interior room, but were much trimmer. Their mistake was that they started cheapening the mechanical hardware in subsequent years, which started to affect reliability...although that's also a bit unfair, because a lot of that was done to reduce weight, not just cost. They were desperate for fuel mileage increases in those years. Things like plastic brake bearing races, and lighter-duty automatic transmissions really undershot the mark. Good ideas, but underdeveloped, and it really, really hurt the company.
Did you catch it @ 6 08
A 1980 Malibu 2r with a 1981
Front grill asymbley
Yup, the '81 taillights are all red without the white center section like the '80's. They're shared with their Pontiac Le Mans sibling.
@@ChicagoDonny922 thank you for your response I have an A body an 80 Malibu 4 door with a 5-speed stick with a 267 do you have A or G Body also
Keen observation about the sheet metal on the Pontiac LeMans and Grand Prix
@@jonpaulschafer1871 YOU have what I refer to for cool 4-doors & sexxxi wagons as: "Foxy Boxy Hottie Body's"!!!! I couldn't even IMAGINE how many mpg you're gettin' with an "appropriate" operating 267?!?! My Ol' Lady, Madame Maggie Mae Saturday an '81 A-body, last year of the coupé. "Pudder-Thudder" 267, stock sweep-style odometer/non-rally pack gauges (but buckets w/console shift?), MUD FLAPS & WHITE WALLS...BUT; SHE'LL BE REBIRTHED AS "THEE ONLYEST '81 MALIBU SS Z-16 396"!!!! ...With A/C of course...& 4-wheel disc brakes as well.
Me gusta el carro
Malibu-sized buyer sounds A LOT like a Camry buyer
The salesman that had to sell all of those 1981 Malibu Iraqi Taxis had their work cut out for them. 😃
What a waste of money that formal roofline was. Better to spend the money on putting roll-down mechanisms in the rear door windows and give Buick-Olds a choice of adopting the Chevy-Pontiac 6-window notchback look or toughing it out with the dud Aerobacks until the new FWD As were ready in 1982.
OTOH the coupe is one of my favorites but would be so much better looking without a vinyl top.