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Originally Posted by shakran
Good point about the Corvette. You could argue that the Camaro was a bad idea too. That's what the Firebird was for. I disagree with you, however, that they got their act together in the mid/late 80's. Their quality remained crappy throughout the 90's and at least part of this decade. What wasn't poorly built was poorly designed (Aztek) (acres of flat cheap gray plastic on the interior) or poorly marketed (the GTO in its Holden Monaro roots very nearly beat a BMW 5 series in an overall comparison test. They should have pushed it as an alternative to the euro sport sedans, rather than something that looked like a grand am but cost more.
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The recent GTO was certainly a contender in the performance categories, but not in quality. Had they marketed the GTO as an alternate to the BMW 5 series or Audi A6, they would have been destroyed by every legitimate car rating organization. The ride quality was crap, the materials were crap, the design was mediocre. I can just hear Jeremy Clarkson going on and on about how Americans can't build a decent car.... ugh.
All that being said, there's a special place in my heart for the Pontiac Fiero. Sure, you had to replace the engine, transmission, and suspension in order for it to be a great car, but for some reason it was a wonderful little thing. And I still find it hilarious that a car called a Fiero would catch fire so often. It had character.