Originally Posted By: 01rangerxl
Originally Posted By: CKN
Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
I always considered full sized suv's as being modern day station wagons. Are compact suv's like modern day Chevettes?
If you consider the compact CUVs total junk like the Chevettes were.
Yet, in 1980, "Chevette sales totaled more than 451,000 units — a figure that would rank it second only to Chevy's new Citation, which had a much longer model run (sales had started in April 1979)." (Wikipedia)
That's quite a few more sales in a single year than the Rogue has ever had.
Yep-gas was skyhigh at $1.80 when GM made these things and Americans were clamoring for small cars. Tom and Ray of "Click and Clack" wrote-
TOM: The fifth-Worst Car of the Millennium is the Chevy Chevette. As one reader described it: "An engine surrounded by four pieces of drywall." Ouch!
RAY: Here's another happy owner's assessment: "Plywood floor, printed-circuit wiring, no redeeming qualities. It was a throw-away from the word go."
http://amarillo.com/stories/042200/whe_worstcars.shtml#.WUwB1Wjyu1s
It should be noted-that GM did figure out they couldn't build a decent small car at the time-and that's where the "Geo" brand came in.
Geo was a marque of small cars made by General Motors as a subdivision of its Chevrolet division from 1989 to 1997. Its original slogan was "Get to know Geo." Formed by GM to compete with the growing small import market of the mid 1980s, the line continued through the 1997 model year, after which the remaining models were marketed under the Chevrolet name.
Geo models were manufactured by GM in joint ventures with three Japanese automakers. The Prizm was produced at the GM/Toyota joint-venture NUMMI assembly plant in Fremont, California, and the Metro and Tracker were produced at the GM/Suzuki joint-venture CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario. The exceptions, the Spectrum and Storm, were entirely manufactured by Isuzu in Japan. Geo Metro convertibles and early Geo Trackers were built by Suzuki in Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_(automobile)
So in short-GM didn't want us to buy small cars direct form the Japanese-but it's OK to buy (rebadged) Japanese cars from GM!
Originally Posted By: CKN
Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
I always considered full sized suv's as being modern day station wagons. Are compact suv's like modern day Chevettes?
If you consider the compact CUVs total junk like the Chevettes were.
Yet, in 1980, "Chevette sales totaled more than 451,000 units — a figure that would rank it second only to Chevy's new Citation, which had a much longer model run (sales had started in April 1979)." (Wikipedia)
That's quite a few more sales in a single year than the Rogue has ever had.
Yep-gas was skyhigh at $1.80 when GM made these things and Americans were clamoring for small cars. Tom and Ray of "Click and Clack" wrote-
TOM: The fifth-Worst Car of the Millennium is the Chevy Chevette. As one reader described it: "An engine surrounded by four pieces of drywall." Ouch!
RAY: Here's another happy owner's assessment: "Plywood floor, printed-circuit wiring, no redeeming qualities. It was a throw-away from the word go."
http://amarillo.com/stories/042200/whe_worstcars.shtml#.WUwB1Wjyu1s
It should be noted-that GM did figure out they couldn't build a decent small car at the time-and that's where the "Geo" brand came in.
Geo was a marque of small cars made by General Motors as a subdivision of its Chevrolet division from 1989 to 1997. Its original slogan was "Get to know Geo." Formed by GM to compete with the growing small import market of the mid 1980s, the line continued through the 1997 model year, after which the remaining models were marketed under the Chevrolet name.
Geo models were manufactured by GM in joint ventures with three Japanese automakers. The Prizm was produced at the GM/Toyota joint-venture NUMMI assembly plant in Fremont, California, and the Metro and Tracker were produced at the GM/Suzuki joint-venture CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario. The exceptions, the Spectrum and Storm, were entirely manufactured by Isuzu in Japan. Geo Metro convertibles and early Geo Trackers were built by Suzuki in Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_(automobile)
So in short-GM didn't want us to buy small cars direct form the Japanese-but it's OK to buy (rebadged) Japanese cars from GM!
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