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jmowreader

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114. They said the same thing about Volkswagens

Thu Nov 14, 2013, 02:34 PM

Nov 2013

Which of course led to the Corvair.

Truth be told, Corvairs were no more dangerous than any other car if you followed the Cardinal Rule of Rear Engine Cars: you need more tire in the back. It doesn't matter if you have a Bug, a Corvair, a Porsche, a European rear engine supercar, or an open wheel race car, you must run either higher air pressure or wider tread in the back. Volkswagen knows this and trained mechanics well to put less air in the front tires. GM didn't know it and sent people out to be killed.

Corvair shows how fucking stupid American industrialists can be. What America said by making VWs popular is they wanted inexpensive, well-built, cute cars that got good fuel economy, and if Chevy would have responded with an iron-engined Vega they would have cleaned up. America didn't wake up one morning and think, "I need a car with a six-cylinder airplane engine in the back," but that's what they got with Corvair.

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