DanicaFreak
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I love these cars!
Too bad they were unsafe...love the engine in the rear
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I love these cars!
Too bad they were unsafe...love the engine in the rear
There's still a lot of Corvair lovers around... it was unconventional so you either loved it or hated it I suppose.
Unsafe? Well sort-of... originally GM cut corners to make it cheaper and Ralph Nader embarrassed them over it - enough to force GM to recall the cars and install the parts that should have been there in the first place. In the second year they redesigned the suspension to cure the problem.
Nader's "Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile" was about problems with all American cars (at the time) - not just the Corvair. But he focused on the Corvair in his first chapter so it inherited all of the blame.
Unsafe? Well sort-of... originally GM cut corners to make it cheaper and Ralph Nader embarrassed them over it - enough to force GM to recall the cars and install the parts that should have been there in the first place. In the second year they redesigned the suspension to cure the problem.
Nader's "Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile" was about problems with all American cars (at the time) - not just the Corvair. But he focused on the Corvair in his first chapter so it inherited all of the blame.
StandOnIt
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Eh, some of us older "fossils" know different. My buddy had one, a 65 monza 180 hp with a four speed that was pretty quick, really could corner. I had one for a while, first gen, 6 cyl auto, fun on a curvy road.
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The Corvair was as safe as any car during that era. The book "Unsafe at any Speed" was about the practices of the auto industry. The Corvair was mentioned and that became the poster car of the book.