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

February 19, 2018

And Now, the Bad

Chevrolet Citation

The Chevrolet Citation is an interesting beast. When it was first released in 1979, it received huge amounts of plaudits, including the Motor Trend Car of the Year. Then the problems started. Let’s not even talk about the car’s lack of power; that’s fair, it was a compact, but it was startlingly unsafe and horribly made. The car’s front suspension and drive train were mounted with very soft rubber, leading to a feeling of the car being made of two different parts. The suspension hoses leaked and started fires. The V6’s two-barrel carb was expensive, and complicated. The interior trim had a habit of detatching with a louche ease more akin to Lego than an American car.

The Citation, along with several other GM cars of the period, were affected by a serious brake defect. It’s not for nothing that the Citation is one of the most recalled cars of all time. A deeply sad episode in GM’s history, the Citation is a car not to be trusted, driven, or used under any circumstances.

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