"80 Knight" <nospam RemoveThis @nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I will definitely admit some of the cars on that list ended up being junk.
> But, some were actually quite good. I owned an '82 Trans Am (same car as
> the '82 Camaro). I have owned 2 Grand Prix's from the 1988-1993 era, and
> the '91 Caprice was even used as a Police cruiser for many years.
> In my opinion, Horner will say whatever makes GM (or domestics in general)
> look bad, and the Foreign brands look good.
>
I have no use for the Car of The Year award - it has never been more than a
hollow accolade. That said - 80 Knight is right on more than one point
here. Some of those cars were indeed quite good cars. Others did indeed
deserve an award for what they represented at the time. It's easy to look
back and see how they failed in certain respects, but at the time they
represented something of consequence for the motor company. The lowly Vega
actually served a good purpose for GM. It represented a movement in a
different direction. Yeah, a lot of manufacturing lessons were learned from
the Vega and many of them painful, but at the time, the car represented
something new and something that needed to be happening. Toyota's were
rusting out back then, just like Vega's. Honda had such a rust problem that
they had to provide sheet metal for free to owners. A lot of the problems
that some cars like the Vega experienced, and that it's easy to see in
retrospect, were problems that were very common across the board. A lot of
those COTY cars really did offer something new to a consumer base that
demanded quite a bit.
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