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* GM EV1 - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Rambler/AMC Marlin - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: GM EV1
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/7b4da9d0e5e9bf11?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Jan 27 2010 1:22 pm
From: "Mike Hunter"
Now that's funny LOL
"Dave U. Random" <anonymous@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> wrote in message
news:12395ec84daf6c454a77c1892f35a93a@anonymitaet-im-inter.net...
> In article <c740a9ce6c55218072477a7ee57977bf@anonymitaet-im-
> inter.net>
> Dave U. Random <anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> wrote:
>>
>> (Car Lust) - In 1990 GM introduced the Impact (a rather
>> unfortunate name for a car, if you ask me), an all-
> electric
>> vehicle at the 1990 LA Auto show. Based on a perceived
>> positive viability of the Impact, GM went forward with a
>> limited hand-built run of the Impact, lending 50 of them
>> out to select customers for 1-2 weeks for evaluation.
> Press
>> and customer reaction seemed favorable, but I suspect that
>> GM already had the electric car pegged as a mass-market
>> dud. Still, they pressed ahead, led in part by
> California's
>> CARB regulations.
>>
>> As an aside, this wasn't the first electric car since the
>> early 1900s, even by GM. The Henney Kilowatt was in
>> production for two years, but only 100 were ever produced.
>> Others had a bit more luck; Sebring-Vanguard produced more
>> than 2,000 of its CitiCars. GM itself had tinkered with
> all-
>> electric versions of its Corvair and Chevette lines in the
>> 1960s and 1970s, respectively.
>>
>> The end result of the Impact was the 1996 EV1. It was the
>> first model to wear the "GM" brand and was introduced to
>> much fanfare in the mass media. Initially, the EV1 was
> only
>> made available to lessees in southern California and
>> Arizona, including some high-profile celebrities. Lessees
>> tended to be rather fanatical about their EV1s -- some
>> would say absurdly so -- but they had some good reasons to
>> be enthusiastic...
>>
>> Continued: http://tr.im/EV1GM
>
> Following on my post on the GM EV1, I ended up poking
> around a little more in the world of electric cars and,
> given my adoration for nearly all things '70s (vehicles
> anyway; well, some other stuff, too), I started looking
> into a little-known company that was, at one time the fifth
> (or sixth, estimates vary) largest automobile manufacturer,
> by volume, in the US--Sebring-Vanguard and its most famous
> product, the CitiCar. Like the EV1, I don't really lust
> after this car, although I hope one day to see one up
> close. At more than 2,500 units sold, this is the most
> successful electric car of the modern era and may be the
> reason why the electric-car idea gained momentum late in
> the century...
>
> Continued: http://xrl.us/CitiCar
>
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TOPIC: Rambler/AMC Marlin
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/c2768a4bad184ddb?hl=en
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Date: Fri, Jan 29 2010 6:54 pm
From: Dave U. Random
(CAR LUST) - Remember the Marlin, AMC's answer to the
Mustang?
Don't be embarrassed if you don't. It's not exactly at the
forefront of modern collector-car consciousness.
Truth be told, the Marlin didn't get a whole lot of
attention even back when it was in production. There were
17,419 Marlins built in the three years it was on the
market--contrasted with production of well over 1.6 million
Mustangs in the same period. We call cars in this market
segment "pony cars" (and not "fishmobiles") for a good
reason.
While it could never match the Mustang in terms of sales,
or visibility, or performance, or (let's not mince words
here) good looks, the Marlin is a perfect Car Lust car,
with the sort of endearing quirkiness we love around these
parts. The story of the Marlin also has some surprising
ties to professional baseball and national politics...
Continued: http://tr.im/AMCMartin
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