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Never owned one on the list, but I did once have a Chevy Vega, GM's counterpart to the Pinto. Cured me of any desire to buy American. There were the holes rusted in the floor pan - this in Southern California! - but the killer was the transmission. When I was a kid, we had a '55 Chevy. A long way from new (where I grew up, "trailer trash" was considered upscale), but for its day & age fairly sound & reliable. Had just one quirk: every once in a while, the external transmission linkage would get stuck between 1st and 2nd, and you'd have to get out, open the hood, and unstick it with a big screwdriver. So twenty years later, GM builds this new Vega, and guess what? Yep, the transmission would still get stuck between 1st and 2nd :-(
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