re: #211 wheat-dogg

My dad bought a Chevette, I think to replace his aging VW Microbus. He hated the Chevette. He said it wasn’t much faster than the bus, and my first reaction when I saw it coming home from college was, “Shit, what an ugly car!” He kept it six months and then bought an AMC Hornet with a V8. Substantially quicker, but being an AMC product, somewhat less than reliable and the V8 was crappy on gas. His last car before he passed was a Renault Encore (when AMC and Renault had some kind of partnership). It was actually not bad: 4 cylinders and 5-speed trans.

And then Lee Iacocca got on TV and hectored the American people for preferring reliable, gas-efficient Japanese cars. Those were the days.