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From: ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Vegas
Message-ID: <495@imsvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 09:08:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 09:08:52 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jan-86 05:49:00 EST
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The Vega should not be in contention for worst car in this new best/worst
thing.  Remember, the Vega came out at a time at which Detroit honestly
believed it could not make money on small cars and was seeking ways to
keep small cars OUT of America.  I honestly believe the Vega was a 
deliberate effort on their part in this direction, the feeling at GM
having been that anyone who ever owned a Vega would never want to own 
another small car again as long as they lived.  As such, it cannot be
viewed as a failure, but as a stunning success, too much of a success
in fact;  Detroit is now making DECENT small cars, but nobody believes
them.  All those former Vega owners are determined never to own another
AMERICAN-MADE small car again, as long as they live.  Justice, maybe?