I just got in the car business at Batey Chevrolet in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 79 1980 when that car first came out. Actually it was a mid-79 introduction. I absolutely love the selling it people were in awe when you would show them how big the trunk was and show them the sideways transverse mounted engine. Even though it had been in foreign cars for a long time. What a way to gross people LOL I was so bad.
The GM X-cars will always be one of those car lines that REALLY frustrates me. They had all of the ingredients to be the best cars ever built, & that is exactly what they could & should have been. Ultimately, I feel that the X-cars' undoing was not really the cars THEMSELVES, but the company who built them, late-'70's/early '80's GM. As was the case with Ford & Chrysler, they became too focused on beating the European & Japanese competition at their own game & not focused ENOUGH on providing the American car-buying public with viable alternatives to the imports. As a result, quality & reliability were allowed to fall by the wayside.
Front seats didn’t recline, vertical radio (hard to replace), fragile CV joint boots (leaked, ruined CV joints), flywheel bolts loosened, but I could put everything I owned in the 4 door hatchback and move to and from school.
These videos had great background music. Everything was so optimistic.
I just got in the car business at Batey Chevrolet in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 79 1980 when that car first came out. Actually it was a mid-79 introduction. I absolutely love the selling it people were in awe when you would show them how big the trunk was and show them the sideways transverse mounted engine. Even though it had been in foreign cars for a long time. What a way to gross people LOL I was so bad.
Love these videos.
The GM X-cars will always be one of those car lines that REALLY frustrates me. They had all of the ingredients to be the best cars ever built, & that is exactly what they could & should have been. Ultimately, I feel that the X-cars' undoing was not really the cars THEMSELVES, but the company who built them, late-'70's/early '80's GM. As was the case with Ford & Chrysler, they became too focused on beating the European & Japanese competition at their own game & not focused ENOUGH on providing the American car-buying public with viable alternatives to the imports. As a result, quality & reliability were allowed to fall by the wayside.
Front seats didn’t recline, vertical radio (hard to replace), fragile CV joint boots (leaked, ruined CV joints), flywheel bolts loosened, but I could put everything I owned in the 4 door hatchback and move to and from school.
Still trying to wrap my head around "Room for five AND front wheel drive?!"