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From: marr@yale.ARPA (Leon Marr)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Vegas
Message-ID: <185@yale.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 18:14:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 18:14:01 1986
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Summary: No worse than mediocre.

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In article <406@ccice6.UUCP> rdz@ccice6.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone) writes:
>As far as owning one, I guess I would rate mine (GT hatchback) a grade
>of C.  It did some things well, others it didn't.

     Agreed.  The Vega has been much maligned, but it really wasn`t
much worse than mediocre.  I drove a `72 Vega wagonback for over
130,000 miles until one night in October `83 when another driver
decided to run a red light.  I certainly wouldn`t expect many small
cars to survive a 45 mph side impact.  In fact, I feel pretty lucky to
have survived myself.  Admittedly, at that point it was burning oil
like our home furnace, but then this *was* the original aluminum 4
cylinder engine.  It`s acceleration was laughable, it`s handling
mushy, but it was basic transportation for me during high school and
college.  That it did well.

Regards,

Leon Marr
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