Car Ha!

[stevenpiziks]

Someone agrees with me about the Cavalier when I said it was an economical, dependable, high-selling car that Chevrolet yanked from production for stupid reasons:

 

http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/923/10-Cars-That-Sank-Detroit

 

Chevrolet Cavalier. GM sold millions of Cavaliers in the 1980s—and decided the thrifty car was so successful the company didn't need to update it for more than a decade. To milk the model, GM even added some lipstick and high heels and tried to peddle the upgrade as the Cadillac Cimarron—a legendary flop. Honda and Toyota, meanwhile, were updating their competing models every four or five years, and grabbing market share with each quality improvement. A new Cavalier came out in the mid 1990s—then languished for another decade, while GM put most of its money into big trucks and SUVs. GM has since improved its small cars. "But they have to be miles better than the imports for Americans to forget how bad their small cars used to be," says Jamie Page Deaton of U.S. News's Rankings and Reviews car-ranking site. Even if they are better, many Americans wonder why they should give Detroit a second—or third—chance.

 

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I had one of the wonderful mid-90s models that Chevy abandoned in favor of gas-guzzling SUVs.  Given a choice, I would have walked straight into a dealership and said, "Give me another Cavalier" when I went cars shopping last week, but noooooo!  The idiots stopped making them, and now they're begging for government handouts from corporate jets while their workers starve.

 

If it weren't for the shit-hole that they dragged Michigan into, I'd be laughing at them.