Generalizations: the Five Best GM Cars Ever and the Five Worst

February 19, 2018

Chevrolet Corvair

Oh dear. What a blue note for us to conclude on. The Corvair was an attempt to compete with the VW Beetle: air-cooled, and with a flat-six in the back, it could have been very interesting indeed. And, in certain lights, it is. It’s one of the most famously unsafe cars ever made. Ralph Nader’s book Unsafe at Any Speed begins with a harsh criticism of the Corvair for a number of reasons. Most dramatically, the steering column had a tendency to impale crash victims, but it went far deeper than that.

If you inflated the tires to an equal pressure, the Corvair would oversteer dramatically. This was often left unsaid to customers, thanks to salespeople not being too informed on the topic themselves. The suspension was also prone to numerous problems. Essentially, the Corvair is more well-remembered now for its public crucifixion as the epitome of bad engineering than anything else, and if that doesn’t warrant a place on this list, I don’t know what does.

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