Re: [BaadAssGremlins] ugly cars of past 50 years
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Re: [BaadAssGremlins] ugly cars of past 50 years





I agree I always wonder what they are comparing a Gremlin too. If I compare my Gremlin to my Ford Focus the Focus wins hand down. It just rides, drives, has as much power and gets a lot better gas millage than my Gremlin. But that is not a fair comparison. If you compare the Gremlin to the VW bug which I thought was a horrible car, the Pinto's, Vega and most other cars of the 70 then for a cheap car the gremlin stood up quite well with any of them. What I like about the Gremlin was while it was a small car in its day when you got into it didn't fell like you were in a cracker box. You felt more like you were in a bigger car which in reality from the front seat up your were in a Hornet which was considered a mid size back then.
Terry


From: Tom H <bigrigbear@xxxxxxxxx>
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 10:09:39 PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] ugly cars of past 50 years

 

These lists always are very short-sighted...  Gremlins are either on UGLIEST or WORST car lists but that is completely unfair (in my no-so-unbiased opinion!).  Cheap cars are always over represented.  Well, duh... in cost-no-object hind site, who doesn't remember a high priced car fondly? They are either plush, fast or exotic.  Grems were made on the cheap to be sold cheap for folks who probably had to scrimp up the payments. They were never meant to be luxurious, pony cars or even extra frugal on gas. Hard to stand up to today's standards, but at the time you got a hell of a lot of car for the buck, solid and durable.  Fir would be to directly compare them with Vega (the 10K mile engine rebuild) Pinto (keep the fire extinguisher handy) Plymouth Cricket (who even remembers them?).  Japanese? I had a early Toyota and NO, it wasn't ready for the US demands (yet).  The VW was slower and got almost equally so-so MPG  VW and Gremlin kept going because of the very fact they had a Cute or Oddball styling that some of us liked.  Long live quirky!



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