Picture credit General Motors.

2000s Cars We Almost Forgot: Chevrolet Classic

June 12, 2014

Those of you reading this piece may see the car in the above picture as the Chevy Malibu, recipient of Motor Trend’s Car of the Year award back in 1997. The Malibu wasn’t a bad car according to reviews across the Internet (read: people complaining about their cars on Edmunds), but very much mediocre. It was something you’d buy new if you a) worked for GM and needed to park closer to the building or b) worked for a firm that needed to buy a fleet of cars for their business.

Photo credit Curbside Classic.

Forgotten Features: Vertical Speedometers

February 26, 2014

We like how thermometers work. I'm of course referring to your basic mercury thermometer, which goes up or down depending on how hot the temperature is. If you were thinking the digital one, I guess you belong in the 1980s, and shouldn't deserve an exquisite specimen of the car I am now going to discuss.

Forgotten Features: Headrest Speakers

February 22, 2014

General Motors in the 1980s was not highly regarded. There was the debacle with the Oldsmobile diesels, which broke all the time and kept diesels from America for another 20 years. The new W-body vehicles on which GM lost $2,000 on each car built. And GM was trying to save money wherever it possibly could, since Roger Smith's goal was to get GM's stock price up. Michael Moore had made Roger and Me which didn't make the company look good one bit.