Aquineas
4th Genesis
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2010
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- Location
- Georgetown, TX
- Genesis Model Year
- 2020
- Genesis Model Type
- Genesis G70
Those were the days-------------did you note that the typical dealer labor rate was $10/hour? Because of the car and dealer quality of Ford and GM in those days, I bought a new 1972 Volvo. It was a great car for the time.
With many apologies to the original poster (congrats on your mileage!!), here's a background story on the engineering of the Vega and all that is wrong with large bureaucracies, whether they be big company or big country:
http://www.carlustblog.com/2010/12/the-chevrolet-vega-what-went-wrong.html
The short-version, we've come a long, long way, and we can mostly thank the imports for kicking the hindparts of GM, Ford, Chrysler, etc so bad that they had to change the way they did things (though I'd argue they still are working on catching up).
Also, ExBMWGuy, water in the tires? How is that even possible?