70s-80s American Cars

I think we can all agree that American Cars from the 1970s and 80s were, as a general rule, complete dogshit. Some exceptions here and their, fine, but in general huge boxy poorly made gas guzzling pieces of crap. The real reason why the US Auto Companies was hit so hard in the 80s was they made shit cars and refused to improve them.

American cars from the 50s-2010s were cheap poorly made shitboxes in general

>American Cars from the 1970s and 80s were, as a general rule, complete dogshit.

inb4 boomers defending muscle cars

>United Automobile Workers

This desu

Meh, Unions were not the problem. It does not matter how happy or unhappy your workers are if they are making shit cars approved by brain dead execs.

Of course they weren't

late 70's and early 80's was an awful period for car manufacturers and enthusiasts alike. Emission standards were at their absolute peak in strictness, and on top of that there was an oil crisis, the market for sporty v8's was dried up.

Take the 2nd gen camaro, the last few year models whose engines were all the way up to being 5.0L small block v8's only made an abysmal 175-180 mph TOPS.

I say don't hate the car, hate the circumstances it was born into.

A fuel crisis is a fuel crisis OP, don't blame the cars for it

Great Veeky Forums hasn't had an ameribashing in all of an hour so I guess we are due. I wish some of you had some knowledge of them other then just regurgitating memes. None of the cars built in the late seventies were really any good. Yes that includes the immortal cars from the land of the rising sun. In the eighties things were improving dramatically. The Chrysler Kcar program and caravans were great vehicles that dug Chrysler out of its first bankrupt and bailout. Chrysler put turbos into everything at that time from new yorkers to minivans. They built what the consumer was wanted. Ford struck the iron when it was hot with the jellybean cars. Ford got their act together and started making the mustang great again(yes I know, I'll pay trump royalties later.) Once again selling what the public wanted. If they were shit cars sales numbers would have died after a couple of years but surprise they didn't. Pontiac built something America manufacturers hadn't seen since the Corvair in the Fiero. The GN was already mentioned. Olds sold the shit out of their downsized rwd cutlass supreme. GM redesigned the Vette and made it much more than a relic of the 70s. All three built great full size pickups that Japan didn't try to compete with. Now japan had great cars in that time for sure, Supras and Z cars being two but Japan didn't sell nearly the same amount as their american competition the the sedans didn't take off until the 90s. Now I now you will pull your special snowflake cars out of your asses and commence bench racing, but when you do that look up two things as well. How many were sold in the US and the MSRP of them.

Upper management did kill the us auto industry.
emissions and oil crisis didn't help but upper management was getting paid the big bucks to deal with shit like that.
but they shat all over it and fucked up everything their previous workers worked hard for.