30 Jul
2001
30 Jul
'01
1:55 p.m.
stuff. Based on the Vega's tendancy to self
destruct, I'd saw few
were manufctured and far fewer actually remain.
The Vega was a misguided experiment in building a car that was intended to
last exactly as long as people "normally" kept them. It was a lot like
the PCJr in terms of providing exactly what people asked for, and ignoring
what they really wanted.
It lasted 50K +/- 5K miles beautifully. Then it wore through the coating
of the cylinder walls, and in the space of another few feet of driving,
the pistons ate the aluminum block.
It was very rare to ever encounter one with serious (worse than timing
belt) problems below 50K miles, and even rarer to ever encounter one with
more than 60K miles.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com