Did American have japanese style sub compact cars in the 60s-80s?

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cosworth vega with a mechanically injected I4

>cheap low-HP FR econoboxes are dead
Hold me, anons

>>15559247
Everyone knows rear wheel drive is for racecars, not for things we sell to regular people (read: soccer moms).

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cavalier hatchback

>>15559264
Why dont cars look like this anymore?

>>15559295

this question comes up every day man, the answer is NHTSA safety regulations. the big windows and paper thin door panels simply cannot exist anymore so cars have to be rolling padded cells.

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>>15559304

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>>15559304
How do these tiny 2 person cars get made then?

>>15559333
Because recently frame technology has gotten good enough that something like that can adequately handle a roll over. Plus look at the size of the pillar on that, that's to hold up the miniscule weight of the rest of the car. Now imagine the weight of a full sized sedan or crossover.

>>15559365
HATE YOU HATE YOU

>>15559247
>HURR MUH FR

>>15559621
>people aren't allowed to have preferences and must use cost cutting automobile layouts

>>15559629
>hurr FWD cant be good

that weird shelby dodge shadow with such modern and efficient anti-lag turbo no one know how to maintain

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i'd love to get an amc spirit and mod it to remove all the shittiness

>>15559811
>you will never a turbo k car
Why does everyone shit on k platform?

>>15559791
So you admit FWD is inferior?

>>15559878
why do you have to do this every thread? no one cares about your autism, fuck off

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>>15559247
that's exactly what the 86/BR-Z is but /o/ don't like that.

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>>15559912
>BRZ
>25mpg
>Econobox

>>15559893
Fuck off

>>15559912
the brz is an ugly pigfat sack of shit that makes too much power with a shit engine

>same autist posts 80 HP ugly 70s dick boxes and ugly FWD 1980s shitboxes

kill yourselves

>>15560137
you sayin FWD is bad?

>>15560137
>>15560218
Fucks sake do we have to devolve into >FWD shiposting every thread?

1960s chevy nova 2. Tiny car by American standards in the 60s. And you can shoehorn any chevy small block v8 in them.
Plus now there is a huge aftermarket for them.

>>15560275
Yes because I don't like it and they don't belong here.

>>15560275
So you admit FWD is inferior?

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>>15560280
Forgot pic

>>15560298
>>15560280

admit FWD is inferior?

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>>15559114
Chevy Corvair

2500lbs
RWD
Rear engined
V8 mid engine swapable
No crazy boomer taxes yet

It's like 'murricas 911. I hear they can handle well after you "de-Nader" the suspension.

>>15560362
>2016
>driving a corvair
Lol

>>15560362
Wrong

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60-63 Tempest
Rear transaxle/IRS
Had either a big 4 or V8

>>15560547
HAHA NICE OVERHANG FAGGOT

any A-body mopar

>>15559256
>9.4 seconds to 60
>with a professional driver
brutal

Why does everyone ignore our good domestics in favor of weaboo shit? We have great sub compacts of all drive trains that are light weight good chassis and can be tuned and modified to be amazing

Japan uses their domestic shit because that's what's their
Even Europeans use the domestic stuff more
but here in the car scenes imports reign pretty strong especially when you leave the drag races
so why can the binb bong nip nong ching chong wing wams

>>15560362

unsafe at any speed my nigga

>>15560583
1: Fast and Furious
2: American capitalism favors the exotic over the regular
3: American cars (at least those after 1995) have less soul.
4: For a long while, Asian cars had better warranties and bigger aftermarkets.

When American cars were truly great, they stole the show in the global automotive world. Everyone wanted a 1965 Mustang.

>>15560583
>Why does everyone ignore our good domestics in favor of weaboo shit?

this is why


1989 Porsche 911 Turbo (930)
3.6L Turbo Flat-6
330 HP/253 lb-ft
0-60: 4.9 seconds
Top Speed: 162 MPH

1989 Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32)
2.6L Turbo Straight-6
276 HP
0-60: 4.7 Seconds
Top Speed: ~156 MPH

Meanwhile, in emissions land

1988 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z
305CID/5.0 L V8
170 HP/255 lb-ft of torque (less power than a fucking Monte Carlo of the same year)
0-60: 7.9 Seconds
Top Speed: >Implying

It never got better.


shitty one-offs that lagged harder than a new zealander trying to watch youtube videos do not fucking count

>>15560821
>stock v stock
*rolls eyes*
puff puff pass

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>>15560821
>if you pick a car that was 1/4 the price of the other two from the worst era in base trim it's slower!
Camaros were faster than similarly priced 911s before that, and they are now

>>15560835

>asterisk posting

>>15559912
>Boxer engine
It's shit

>>15560362
Corvairs are based
>tfw no aircooled rr chevy

>>15559372

My dad went form NOVA to Miami in the hatch space of one of these.

>>15559333
Because the frame strength is all in the A pillar. This means safe cabin in front, and front overhang crashes. The B pillar is close to A pillar too, so the car does well in side impacts.

>>15561552
That's like a maybe 30 minute to hour drive