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I never knew day by day if the unreliable Rabbit would get me to work. Rabbit (aka Golf for the rest of the world) experienced two under the hood fuel injection fires as well as unfortunately repeated routine electrical failures/alternator failures before I was able to escape Rabbit ownership in a less than a year gruesome ownership experience. brought new sets of reliability issues to the Rabbit until sorted out later. Point being, that, like most people in that era, my dad had no qualms about buying a Chevette. I said, “dad, a man in your position cannot be seen driving a Chevette–or any cheap car. I was aghast! My dad was a middle manager, with a pretty “good job” and like the other managers, had his own parking space.

Our family needed a two cars, gas was expensive, and my dad was frugal.Ī “four-dour, so you and your brother can fit”. My father thought of buying a new one in 1980–because it was a GM car, and my father still liked GM, and my father refused to pay sticker on a Citation/Phoenix, and the Malibu/LeMans was more than he wanted to spend. I didn’t know if they had the base 1.4 motor or 1.6, but for GM to offer the 1.4 was quite pathetic, as it had 52 hp.īUT, my perception then was that the Chevettes were NOT troublesome cars. I also remember people complaining how slow they were.

Keep in mind, that Car and Driver didn’t keep the car long-term, and that the treatment they got was probably better than the average consumer.

87 grand national gas tank g body fuel injection gas tank