5 1980s Cars That Should Have Never Been Canceled 

You are so lucky I would love to have one

@John Stone Your answers are weirdo! You sound like you don't know what the heck you're talking about.

@John Stone, LOL What's the matter with your mind, huh? Jeez! Just sit down & SHUT up.

'88 Fiero Formula here. Got it 6 months ago and absolutely love it. Looking forward to doing some like light reconditioning and making it shine again!

@John Stone, Huh? You are not making any sense. Jeez! Yeah, go ahead & lay down. It will do your mind some good. LOL

Given AMCs penchant for unique body styles it would probably look like the Nissan Juke.

Cadillac( all GM are clunkers ) hubcaps &bumper stickers totally useless

@John Stone true but realistically they'd make it electronic like all modern 4wd vehicles. But it still would be a cool mopar and good idea

@John Stone yes but at least it's something more substantial than a forester, v90, or outback. No real American competition in awd "wagons" (cuv as you said). Best one you can get is a mini clubman

The Cimarron was built for one reason only: To increase the number of fuel-sipping models produced to counter-balance the gas guzzlers, in order to meet CAFE mandates. Once said mandates were temporarily frozen by President Reagan, the need for such models--and the numbers they were built in--vanished faster than the 4-cyl from the engine compartment of a Camaro/Firebird.

I still drive a 1988 Eagle Wagon, my Show Car.

@@stephenmartini5890 that is awesome

@@stephenmartini5890 I love that car! Never sell it!

My friend had a Eagle Talon. Very quick little car.

@@jelly7310 That was not made by AMC, that was made by Mitsubishi.

I'd like to add to that... DON'T make cars for people who DON'T LIKE CARS. Seriously it's a bad business model.

@@pgtmr2713 I totally agree, even better way to say that is don't put none car guys on your board of directors

I really wanted to know what happened to the Toyota mr2! Is there a video on that?

@@michaelvarga8252 It has been rumored lately that there is work being done on a new all electric version to be announced. But hold your enthusiasm about it, the last time Toyota took a long time to build something they ended up with the latest "Supra".

Well said!! I miss my conquest tsi!!!☹😞I'd pick that car over 3/4 of the cars made now!!!

Oldsmobile too. Had a 442. Gm broke my heart.

GM broke my heart when they cnxld OLDSMOBILE then they stomped on it when they pulled the plug on PONTIAC, these two brands had some nice looking cars, from the Olds 442 to Pontiac's last great looking car: the G8.

I wouldn't have missed Buick, instead...

@@BuzzLOLOLAbsolutely! They should have closed Buick and GMC which was just rebadged Chevy trucks. Kept Pontiac and we could have had the modern Trans Am!

GM had no problem screwing over Pontiac. In 1964 Pontiac made a car called the Banshee. GM told them you can't build and sell. GM then gave that Pontiac car to Chevrolet and told them to use it for their 3rd gen Corvette.

@John Stone Can you give examples of another car manufacturer. I'm not doubting you, I just can't think of another company with GM's record.

@@Thomas63r2 GM always seemed like they were throwing darts at a board for their new ideas. Look at new Buicks, all of their new models have goofy names that nobody knows.

GM and their infamous badge engineering.

GM wouldn't let any in house manufacturers step on the Corvette's toes. Hence the Fiero and Grand National was killed to name a few.

GM has always had some of the most idiotic policies as far as platform development. That's why DeLorean had to do the GTO in secret. They are also in the recent past one of the least willing to realize, adopt and embrace change.

And that was only down hill.

😂

We called it the jokers clown car

@John Stone WRONG! They did build several Fiero prototype for notchback & fastback. Look it up! Jeez!

Would have loved to see the Cyclone power plant in the Fiero. 280hp and AWD in that car would have been one heluva ride.

Same here.... that 2nd gen Fiero looks dope tho

@@tedharvick9010 Mid-engine and AWD is tricky to implement. Look at how Ford, Peugeot and Lancia all took different approaches with their designs from that era. If GM was gonna build an AWD Fiero it probably would have been for 1985 or 1986, but why bother building a Group B homologation model as a Pontiac when Americans don't watch rally? The bean-counters never would have went for it no matter what badge it wore, but the only way to rationalize it would be as an Opel. Unless the goal was to go rallying MR would be just as good as M4 so odds are any halo Fieros still would have been MR. I like coming up with different what-if takes on the Fiero though, like Group B, or more generations, or Opel, Saturn or Chevy rebadged versions, etc.

Whata pile that thing was.

If you think about it, look at the first generation Escalade and Denali. Exactly the same vehicles. Took time for Cadillac and GMC to distinguish themselves from the Tahoe and Suburban. So If Cadillac had made it look less like a cavalier and started with a V6, who knows?

It didn't *resemble* a Cavalier, it *was* a Cavalier with minimal sheet metal changes.

One of these showed up at the shop I worked out in the early 2000s, I thought it was a total joke before I looked closer and realized it was a legit Cadillac🙄

The Cimarron, was straight TRASH 🚮!!

hasn't changed...too many "managers" ZERO visionairies...they gave Tesla a 10 year head start, good job you just ended gas powered cars when everyone saw it could go fast and far.

UK volume manufacturers would like to enter the chat, but there aren’t any left.

Ford getting rid of the Crown Vic

@@thedevilsadvocate5210 Sorry, I have an 09 model and to get it updated to safety standards of the 20 teens pretty much required a clean sheet effort. At that point, why call it a Crown Victoria? As much as I really like mine, I (and I am pretty sure other owners of this car and the Grand Marquis) like it because it is a " throwback " type of car. I considered replacing my Crown Vic with, of all things, a Toyota Avalon...preferably the hybrid model. Found it difficult to sign the papers because the Avalon is quite ugly and a high leap tech-wise. In fact, the big attraction for me was that the model I looked at (a 2015) still had a CD player...stupid reason, right? The (recently discontinued) Taurus is a decent Crown Vic replacement except for a fatal flaw with its engine, or I would have considered it, too.

Oh no..that honor goes to the brits with British Leyland. They wrote the book on how to screw up a company from the ground up.. This company started out as a mess..And after multiple owners, from different countries, and continents, and even government funded, ended as one.

They didn't have the money to keep building a vehicle that wasn't turning them a profit. They just couldn't compete with the Big 3 when it came to cost efficiency per vehicle, and they didn't have the sales numbers to reduce costs through higher production numbers. Add to that, The U.S. was in a pretty bad recession at the time that they canned production. If memory serves me correctly, the prime rate hit 21% near the end of 1980. Pretty tough time to be losing money with every vehicle sold.

@John Stone 1980 was last year of production so it just squeaks in.

Dude...I had one with a “slight lift” and the V8. It went “anywhere” and “push or pulled” everyone one out, like the Blazers and the Broncos. I wish I had it today, but it was so hard on gas and rusted to death. 😀👍

@@genekelley7579 Unfortunately they were rust prone, especially where road salt was used. They were contemplating a fiberglass version but the worker strike was the final nail in their coffin.

Good call. Another vehicle ahead of its time. If they were to make it today with modern alloy, 95% if it’s issues wouldn’t exist.

The Cimarron was built for one reason only: To increase the number of fuel-sipping models produced to counter-balance the gas guzzlers, in order to meet CAFE mandates. Once said mandates were temporarily froze by President Reagan, the need for such models--and the numbers they were built in--vanished faster than the 4-cyl from the engine compartment of a Camaro/Firebird.

I have one too and a 92 typhoon. I don't know if it's the upgraded turbo on my typhoon but when it spools it sounds like it's gonna suck everything in around it. I love that feeling in the GN when that turbo lag then boom it's like being shoved hard down a cliff. It gets to 80mph so fast it seems like 5 seconds I'm in getting a ticket territory. I think if the transmission had 2 more gears these things would still be pretty formidable in stock form. It's jarring sometimes when you drive a older car because it lacks the smoothness in down shifting that even my jeep wrangler has.

@@jdgreen214 @Sheldon K those GNs would whip anyone on the road back in the late 80s

Other luxury makes use small car platforms to make luxury cars off of. Toyota has a Corolla based Lexus, Honda has a Civic based Acura and Nissan has a Sentra based Infiniti. The Cimmaron was just poorly executed. It should have been reskinned and started out with the 2.8L V6 as its engine.

Bingo

NeDeS Hey, you could even go uphill with 4 people in the car if you downshifted into 2nd gear. What a fun return to the Roaring Twenties! You could spend all day going from Santa Monica to Bakersfield over the Old Ridge Route.

Strong 😊

With 188 HP it wasn't "more muscular" than a 240 HP Porsche 944... LOL!

@@BuzzLOLOL It was a blast to drive

@@thetrumpnewsnetwork7503 - I've been advocating for a TTNN - Trump True News Network...

Amen to that last line.

The XJ Cherokee was *very* different than the Eagle, with an 8” shorter wheebase, 14” shorter and 5” narrower body, solid front axle as opposed to the Eagle’s independent setup, and an engine bay that wasn’t initially designed to carry the AMC straight 6 like the Eagle had... until a significant update came in ‘87. Their platforms had nothing in common.

Then if the subject changes to who deserves a bailout, what about Studebaker? Here is an American car company that built vehicles for 104 years and never whimpered once when the weather turned bad. They were not a victim of bad management or schlocky cars, but only of dwindling profits that kept them from investing in technological advancements. A Studebaker was as quality a car as any mainstay Chevy, Ford, Plymouth, Dodge or Rambler. And before there were automobiles, Studebaker was the leading producer of covered wagons that expanded and settled an evolving midwest and western America. If anyone deserved a bailout, it is Studebaker. Only Ford has a nameplate as American as Studebaker, and Ford has never asked for a bailout, either.

Yes it was a joke but I think he's saying that there should have been a second generation where they could've gotten it right.

There were a lot of fatal hits on Caddy in the 80's, this one was just the most insulting. The V8-6-4, the Cadillacs with the Olds Diesel, there were so, so many. It's nothing short of a miracle Cadillac survived to the 90's where they got the impressive, but fatally flawed Northstar.

The Cimarron was built for one reason only: To increase the number of fuel-sipping models produced to counter-balance the gas guzzlers, in order to meet CAFE mandates. Once said mandates were temporarily froze by President Reagan, the need for such models--and the numbers they were built in--vanished faster than the 4-cyl from the engine compartment of a Camaro/Firebird.

@@pancudowny I had a roommate that had a 4cyl Firebird, at the time I thought that strange..

I had a Cavalier as a rental car after an accident. That disaster of a car had no traction. When I saw that GM introduced the Cimmaron, I cringed so hard. Caddy has no business making a front wheel drive car. Especially that hot mess.

GNX!!

I bought a new one in 1987. Modified it with Applied Technology after market stage 3 kit. It was awesome. I would still have it today but it was stolen from my driveway in 1990.

@@ubroberts5541 That's why mine stays locked up in storage. It's funny when the first line someone says to you, "Nice car haven't seen one of those in a long time, better be careful they get stolen."

I understand why you say that, personally I'd rather have a nice Eagle wagon.

@@JeffDeWitt I saw a houtube story today of two Eagle wagons owned by guys in Japan of all places and still driving them today. I love those cars too.

Oh man. No doubt.

Exactly.

When you get my age you wish you could know now what you knew then.

@@fitfogey: What is your age?

Me too! About Fieros and the rest of the dumb s- -t I did back then.

@John Stone i think the Malibu is cool, especially the wagon

Square body wagons unite!

Ahead of it's time

Back then those were AMAZING in 12" snow ❄️Miss the old Buick square RWD wagon , that sound of the drivetrain from sitting right over the diff as dad drives, never knew or cared about "seatbelts" just get in and shut up

I was more inclined toward the Chrysler Conquest version of the Starion. But yeah, great looks that stand the test of time.

Friday Saturday nights nobody liked seeing GN roll into parking lot. Not even the 5.0 guys

The 3.8 was one of the best engines of all time. Had a lovely vin code 7 myself. Yeah , great cars

Did you forget that GM made ZR1 in 1990? A 375hp corvette that sprinted 0 to 60 in just 4.4sec and a top speed of 180mph (GN was limited to 124mph). First DOHC V8, while every other V- engine was pushrod trash.

No, they put those vehicles out in limited numbers. Someone else stated the reason why, but it was PR move only. And none of them ever really treatened the 'Vette, or they would have never seen the light of day.

Also, Fieros looked better and handled better than Corvettes... and at 1/3 the price... they had to go... And in 2021 when they built a Corvette like a Fiero they discovered it could do 0 - 60 in under 3 seconds!

Oh yes. I've fallen asleep to these vids many times. Good for him because I reach when I get up lol. 2 views from me.

What is a "cuv?" You mean SUV? AMC was the Gremlin of car companies. Jeep included.

LOL 😂 A slant six Duster was faster than a Cimarron

Those Z24s were pretty nice. I wouldn't mind having one now but beefed up a little

I have two 87 z24s. Would like to restore them. Were very fun cars.

That was a nice looking car. They also had a convertible version too.

I loved my '87 Z24.....with the 5-speed trans it was fun and quick for the time! Most people don't realize that they had a functional ram air hood too! I would love another, but good luck finding a nice one, and restoring 1 is impossible since parts are not available for them

@John Stone Troll

@John Stone Troll fail.

The Cimarron was built for one reason only: To increase the number of fuel-sipping models produced to counter-balance the gas guzzlers, in order to meet CAFE mandates. Once said mandates were temporarily froze by President Reagan, the need for such models--and the numbers they were built in--vanished faster than the 4-cyl from the engine compartment of a Camaro/Firebird.

K cars universally sucked

@@stevenhunt3113 nahhh, not all. Some of the Chryslers were nice. Remember, the first mini van was on a k car platform. BOOM!

@@thomasofone I had a k car and the carb messed up, you had to replace it with the same one, out of 286 different ones that all came on that year model. Of that car.

@@stevenhunt3113 all cars have lemons.

'76 Seville didn't look like a Rolls and had first EFI 5.7L V8s... that engine made it one year into the Rolls look body with FWD...

@@BuzzLOLOL I think what Papa means is that the Seville, like some Rolls Royce models, had more front end than rear end.

Weirdly enough, I had both of those engines in cars I owned in the past. the 3.4 in a Cutlass Supreme Convertible and the Quad4 in a Z24. I honestly didn't like the Quad4, too loud and raspy, but the DOHC 3.4 was a great engine. Revved up really high and felt faster than it's HP rating.

Very true! It’s MUCH cheaper for the automakers to make a FWD car than a RWD one. It’s a myth about “better handling in snow”. Some instances yes, but I got along just fine long before FWD became mainstream and I’m glad that it’s not the sole powertrain any longer. I do believe it’s one reason people flocked to trucks and SUV’s. They tired of the FWD platform and at least the Crossovers and such do come in AWD.

Exactly cheap disposable junk.

To be fair, the packaging of a FWD drivetrain is pretty great for the designers to work with. Cheaper to make, yes, but packaging played a role.

The change to front wheel drive was to kill off the Shade Tree Mechanic.

Nope. The switch to FWD was about downsizing and lightweighting vehicles to achieve better fuel economy without sacrificing interior room. It’s why the 1985 C-bodies were 2 feet shorter and 400lbs lighter than the B-bodies they replaced, but had just as much interior space. GM spent $7 billion developing the W-bodies, and had to spend more than that converting their plants to build transverse FWD unibody cars when the G’s were FAR cheaper to build.

"GM had pretty much committed career suicide with their downsizing." ABSOLUTELY--especially Cadillac.

I know the Fiero tho a basket case car in the beginning, many experts believed that Fiero last model year was actually a great car, one of the best engines.... just when GM finally got it right, they pulled the plug. Tho I have to say GM probably could have out done Toyota and their European counterpart, if they stopped the boxy boat like models in the 90's.. Sadly GM was slow to innovate, they kept milking those boxy cars into the 90's and shotty manufacturing. I remember a brand new 89 Cutlass Olds, the trimming on the dashboard was off....like really? Today I have a GMC, it's solid, great technology innovation tight and solid, reliable....but I think GM lost a whole generations of people with bad cars in the 90's

The 5 vehicles mentioned were all canceled in the 80s. The Thunderbird flew on in the 90s and beyond. The SVO - if you mean turbo charged 4cyl, Ford sells them now. If you mean Special ops....Ford had the SVT and Shelby in the 90s and beyond,

@Cherokee Blood Sigma Soul Not the Grand National. Discontinued after the 1987 model year. Helps to watch the video.

@Cherokee Blood Sigma Soul thunder chicken was trash. Ford's 2.3 4 cylinder was weak.

@@TylerDurden-rh6hu lol

@Nunya Grooves - Nope, the RWD Regal/Special/Century ended in 1987... just FWD trash after that...

My boss at the time had a beautiful silver 88 Fiero GT fastback. He was an ex jet-fighter jockey and drove it like one. He passed me on the way to work seversal times on the highway like I was parked, and honked and waved as he went by.When I got in he'd stop by my office and ask me what took me so damned long to get to work, lol. I have never worked for a better boss.

Same here. Was saving up all of my money in HS, to try to buy one. Never could find one though, and had to settle for a TA.

GM had turbo V8s in 1960s !!!

The worst thing is my uncle leased a Dodge Conquest TSI and if you took it to go to a Mitsubishi dealer, they'd tell you they can't touch it even if not leased and the Dodge guy who fixed it only got to the dealer every few weeks. He has a 5 year lease and shop time added up to a year of that

My friend's father had a red Conquest and it was a good looking fast car.

I agree!

As a 6'5" guy, I disagreement :-) They were very cool cars.

Imagine if they'd taken the Fiero the same route as the 89 T/A and dropped a Grand National motor into it...

@@joshuafrahm8778 Ding ! That would be a fun,scalded cat of a car to drive.. I cannot remember who, but somebody did do a couple V-8 conversions ,but not enough to get noticed, I have'nt gotten a chance to dive one yet.

@@tuck6464 mine had a 3.8 SC, best time on the drag strip was 13.29. Loved that car but 3 kids later, i had to sell it....

The Cherokee was MUCH smaller than the Eagle. 14” shorter, 7” shorter wheelbase, 5” narrower, and couldn’t be fitted with a straight-6 until the engine bay was redesigned for ‘87. Jeep didn’t make anything similar to the Eagle’s dimensions until the 1993 Grand Cherokee.

@@judethaddaeus9742 Yes a little smaller but it served the same purpose is all I was saying.

@@bcarss1970 The Cherokee was two entire size classes smaller. In today’s terms, Jeep’s smallest current model, the Renegade, is almost exactly the same size as the XJ Cherokee. The current Cherokee is closest in size to the Eagle. And Jeep now has the Compass slotted between them. Roy Lunn engineered the Eagle at the outset to be halfway between a car and a truck, and purposely designed it as a step between AMC’s passenger cars and Jeep’s off-road oriented trucks. In fact, AMC checked their work and did lots of customer clinics in advance of the XJ Cherokee’s launch of both Eagle and Jeep buyers, to make sure they both had a distinct place in the market. Most Eagle buyers weren’t interested in the XJ because it was too small and truck-like, with its solid front axles, and didn’t offer the creature comforts (or the torque) of a passenger car-based vehicle like the significantly bigger Eagle. In fact, for over half of the Eagle’s 9-year life, it was sold right alongside the XJ Cherokee.

GM had turbo V8 in 1962...

They got a bed rap! People nicknamed them Firemounts. I had one with an inline 6 and loved it

I drove a '78 Fairmont in '81. The engine burnt a quart of oil for each tank of gas. The headlight control fell apart in my hand. I had to jump the connections to get headlight s for the trip home. The driving experience was so numb and isolated from the road that I just had to make a guess as to where the front wheels were pointed. You couldn't pay me to take one of those things off your hands.

Well, the Fox platform it was based on did survive way into the '90s in the Mustang....

There is a guy in my town still riding around in a Fairmont, and another guy has an old Dodge Omni

Which came from Hornet.

My daddy bought in '78 a '75 AMC Hornet Sportabout wagon (4.2L / 258 I6) and the Eagle wagon was just an updated (and AWD'd) version of that one (the '80s Concord was the RWD sedan version of the Eagle).

That's what they've been doing since the late 70's, start subpar, then take 5 years to fix things up then when it's ready for prime time people are aware of the bad rep and stay away. Great policy... That made GM's reputation and still sticks today unfortunately.

So right. and poor marketing as well. see Pontiac...

G.M. wrost enemy is General Motors

Nah, The RAV4 came out before those did, Honda even had a jacked up Civic wagon 4WD in the 80s.

@@kingchakazulu7762 Nah, remember that Subie had the BRAT which began production way back in '78. They just took the good idea that AMC had and expanded on it with BRAT, Outback, etc.

@@kingchakazulu7762 Sorry no, the BRAT is a unibody pick up based on the DL/GL Wagon. 80s Subaru EA82 4WD Wagons are the closest relatives/competitors of the Eagle, and there was even a MPFI Turbo version.

Subaru's 1st 4wd wagon in the US was 1975. I had a 76 with safari rims. It was a little tank, hard to kill, but could overheat in a blizzard. The Eagle 4wd was very capable.

The Cimarron was built for one reason only: To increase the number of fuel-sipping models produced to counter-balance the gas guzzlers, in order to meet CAFE mandates. Once said mandates were temporarily froze by President Reagan, the need for such models--and the numbers they were built in--vanished faster than the 4-cyl from the engine compartment of a Camaro/Firebird.

I took my driver's test in its ancestor, a 1967 Rambler American wagon with the 232 six.

@@JeffDeWitt I’d be proud of that one. AMC was just another U.S. auto manufacturer when I was a kid. They made a lot of garbage back then but they also made some cool cars. The Eagle was probably their best release. You could argue the Javelin was a competitive muscle car and the Pacer (temporarily) saved the company... but the Eagle was the only AMC ahead of its time. Excellent ground clearance and 4WD on the fly with the touch of a button. Unheard of then, but standard industry today.

The Eagle at the time is what the Subaru Legacy is today...Imagine if we still had our AMC around.

@@Blackinterceptor999 Agreed. I'm a Brit so my knowledge of American cars isn't great. When I first learned of the AMC Eagle I did consider it to be something of a competitor to Subaru, despite the engine size differences. The AMC Hornet Sportabout reminds me of a 1972-78 Opel Rekord wagon/Vauxhall Victor/VX estate.

@@mattw8332 Jeep had a 4.0l inline 6 with the AMC design up till 2000 they also respond well to turbocharging... I bet it would have dominated the market

I had a Javelin for about six months. It was awesome with tons of power. I felt the body looked a lot like the black Falcon that Mad Max drove. I was afraid that parts would get hard to get because there were enough differences between GM and Ford v8s that you could not sub most major parts like timing gears, crank, cam and such. I traded it for Datsun 240 that had a Chevy TPI 350, 5 speed and rear axle from a Camero swapped in it already.

@@Blackinterceptor999 - actually, that 4.0L I6 is what Renault (owned a huge chunk of AMC back then) replaced the 4.2L with (and stuck with it into the 21st Century), particularly on TJ Wranglers and XJ Cherokees / Wagoneers (also the Comanche pickup).

GM's agreement with it's dealers made it impossible to keep selling Pontacs as a full-line make. Had legal agreements been different, Pontac could have been a niche make which didn't directly compete with other GM vehicles. Pontiac could have been required to partner with other make GM dealers so that GM could produce fewer Pontiac models that were distinct. Car dealers have exclusive territory agreements and are promised a variety of vehicles. It might have made sense to sell just one or two popular Pontiac models alongside Chevies or Buicks etc at the same dealer, as Pontiac dealers had essentially become a part time business. Pontiac dealers would have sued GM and won. GM had no choice to kill off Pontiac. GM should just have a single "GM" dealer network and stop competing with other GM makes. In that way both Pontiac and Oldsmobile could have survived as niche makes.

Of all the GM makes,,Pontiac was my favorite,,,and I'm a Ford fanatic..

The Firebird was nothing but another "me, too" Camaro with a Bunke Knudsen front-end stapled onto it. It also preceded the Banshee by many years, which you'd know if you studied the Firebird before you broke into print.

@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 I'm not sure you are right! The Banshee preceded the Firebird. The Banshee was in development before the Firebird and the General shut that down. Their was a memo that their was no direct competitor from any GM divison to go up against the Corvette. So to throw Pontiac a bone, the executives let Pontiac developed there own version of the F body. Which they end up calling the firebird. The firebird was nowhere close to what the Banshee was supposed to be and that was a hard pill for John Delorean to swallow!

Wow

The Cimarron was built for one reason only: To increase the number of fuel-sipping models produced to counter-balance the gas guzzlers, in order to meet CAFE mandates. Once said mandates were temporarily froze by President Reagan, the need for such models--and the numbers they were built in--vanished faster than the 4-cyl from the engine compartment of a Camaro/Firebird.

Agree with you. Awesome wagon for the time

Kinda hard with no AMC Co.

I remember riding in one, that baby was fast sleak and sexy, ive always wanted one !

Buick should have never stopped making the Grand National! Okay make the Regal front wheel drive, but the GN would have gotten people into the showroom. And Buick would had have a legitimate sport car.

The G -body was very easy to steal , and the crooks knew it

@@edwardautrey3671 all GM platform were easy to steal! They would make chassis and spread it among 5 different brands. In some cases, one brand would use on 3 cars. Malibu, Monte Carlo and El Camino. And yes parts and the keys would work from one GM car to another.