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1.367m later
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: small farm town Iowa..........at last
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jim Cesiro
. I always thought he was the one that killed the Corvair.
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I guess it depends on who you talk to or choose to believe. GM claims that they offered the corvair in it's early years to compete in the econo car market. It was never intended to be produced after '64. Ford was prepared to debut the Mustang in mid '65 and GM was set to unveil the Camaro at the same time. GM didn't feel the need to have two models competing in the econo class. But after Nader made such a fuss over the corvair they didn't want to give the impression that he was right (even though internally they knew SOME of his criticism was well founded) in his criticism as they were afraid it would wash over onto the Camaro. GM decided to redesign the Corvair and produce it for a couple more years just to save face. The end result was that Ralph caused GM to produce another 5 years of the car he claimed was so unsafe.
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