• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    For both of them the design features were dictated by an idiot who had free reign over the project and didn’t listen to any of the expert’s input.

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    Does the meme creator think an animated fictional show is “automotive history”?

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    I remember watching the release Live with a few buddies, and the “gunshot proof windows” shattered with the gentle toss of a ball bearing.

    I knew just watching the release it would flop, they marketed solely to clueless hipster assholes instead of actual truck-buying rednecks.

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      I think the Pontiac Aztec was worse tbh.

      The Cimarron was basically a Chevy Cavalier and it worked. I know, it was literally my first car.

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        The Aztec was decent to drive, it was just kind of ugly and not terribly reliable.

        The Cimarron was, as you say, a rebadged Cavalier. The Cav was the bottom of the barrel that GM had to offer at the time (1982), and they thought it would be a good idea to slap their flagship brand on it.

        It was a legendary failure, on par with the Edsel.

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          Fair. I had a used '83 Cimarron 1.8T in 1994. It was an absolute slug, basically chewed through alternators and water pumps on a quarterly basis, but honestly wasn’t horrible for a first car.

          Aztec was fugly as hell though.