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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
Sure some American cars had an awful fuel consumption, yet some 4-cyl American engines such as Chevrolet's 153 were not so bad at all. Problem is mostly gearing. Recently I had a talk with a guy who owns a late-'70s Chevrolet Opala Caravan, and he told me it only has a bad fuel consumption on highway, seemingly due to the lack of an overdrive...
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not to mention that we didn't have much highway back then, (relatively) big engine + bad gearing in mostly stop and go or less than 60 kmh traffic? abominable fuel consumption. This cemented deeply into the image of American cars. I used to have 1997 4.0 Jeep Cherokee and I got 4 km/l fuel consumption in the city it was atrocious.
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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
Chevrolets for instance, became uglier once they started to have more Chinese influence to their design.
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I noticed they became uglier since they acquired Daewoo Motors.