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.
Other cars shown in the intro (all 1979 models, Chevys unless otherwise stated); Chevette, Buick-Opel by Isuzu, Renault 5 LeCar (the only non-GM), Corvette, Nova and Malibu, Caprice sedan, full '79 wagon line (Caprice, Malibu, Monza, Blazer, Suburban and Sportvan), Olds Toronado, Nova again.
Interesting... it is 640×480, but the picture looks stretched. Also, why 30p? Should be either 60p because it is off a Laserdisc, or 24p, because it seems to have been filmed, so you could use inverse telecine.
Strange, the 4:3 ratio looks good on my end. Since these are native NTSC LD's, 30 FPS interlaced is the playback standard. Reverse telecine would not work as the 24 FPS is lost during conversion to video (back in 1979).
I had a white 1984 Citation 2 door PJ hatchback. Put 73000 miles in two years. No problems. Good car. Traded it for 1986 Mercury Sable.
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.
They had GM engineering and lazy/drunk UAW workers. Enough to be a flop.
They rushed the introduction. The car needed another 6-12 months before it went public.
Other cars shown in the intro (all 1979 models, Chevys unless otherwise stated); Chevette, Buick-Opel by Isuzu, Renault 5 LeCar (the only non-GM), Corvette, Nova and Malibu, Caprice sedan, full '79 wagon line (Caprice, Malibu, Monza, Blazer, Suburban and Sportvan), Olds Toronado, Nova again.
Interesting... it is 640×480, but the picture looks stretched. Also, why 30p? Should be either 60p because it is off a Laserdisc, or 24p, because it seems to have been filmed, so you could use inverse telecine.
Yea those stats never make sense to me. Current 480, Viewport 1.5=720?
Strange, the 4:3 ratio looks good on my end. Since these are native NTSC LD's, 30 FPS interlaced is the playback standard. Reverse telecine would not work as the 24 FPS is lost during conversion to video (back in 1979).
GM had a hit on their hands, sold like hotcakes for two years, and then the problems showed their ugly face! lost loyal gm customers to the imports!