Chevrolet Citation

[Man of Steel]

Chevrolet Citation #1

[blackcat77]

That was the car that marked the stinking low tide of the American automotive industry. Ugly, impractical, inefficient and handled like an ox-cart.

[whiteballz]

Originally Posted by blackcat77

That was the car that marked the stinking low tide of the American automotive industry. Ugly, impractical, inefficient and handled like an ox-cart.

Isn't that all american cars?

But yes. This is pretty ugly.. How was it impractical?

[blackcat77]

It lacked both the passenger and storage space you'd expect in a car that size. Fuel mileage wasn't up to snuff either. Shoddy materials, poor workmanship -- it seemed like the carmakers simply expected Americans to continue buying their cars because that's what they'd always done.

And Detroit has learned from foreign manufacturers but it took them much longer than it should have.

[Man of Steel]

Originally Posted by blackcat77

It lacked both the passenger and storage space you'd expect in a car that size. Fuel mileage wasn't up to snuff either. Shoddy materials, poor workmanship -- it seemed like the carmakers simply expected Americans to continue buying their cars because that's what they'd always done.

And Detroit has learned from foreign manufacturers but it took them much longer than it should have.

...And I am very proud to add it to the Hide-Out!

[MrPete]

Not to continue to flog a dead horse, or Citation; but BlackCat actually cut them some slack on the car. It was truly a serious candidate for the title of worst car ever made. All the Chevy technicians I've know hated working on them, the tended to call the car a "Situation."

[cargirl1990]

Ouch. That car is a wretched vehicle. And GM wondered why they were in debt today....

[csl177]

That's pretty funny... "Situation". Wonder what they called the badge-engineered Cadillac based on it, the Cimarron? A See Moron?

There were thousands of Citations and Cimarrons in rental car fleets; once we got stuck with one for a week of vacation because our "reserved" car had been over sold. It was considered an upgrade over the Mustang convertible. What a POS, I didn't rent from Alamo for years because of that.

The advertising was laughable: It's got the touch? Yeah, of an STD on wheels.

[cargirl1990]

That is a very corny car ad for a magazine. I've seen similar ones in my moms life magazines except they had Tempos/Topaz's, Stanza's, Altima's and Mitsubishi's. And none of them get as bad as that. I like it how they try and give the impression that its fast if y'all know what I mean....