Chevrolet Vega – A Brief Overview
By Zaheer on Jul 07, 2011 with Comments 0
This car was launched in the year 1971 to 1997 and is known as a two door automobile. Every year has different models and innovative ones in order to attract the people and maintain the standard of the renowned brand. This car is basically a division of the biggest GM or General Motors which excels in all such automobiles and promises speed, excellent, style, luxury and innovation.
The name Chevrolet Vega generally originated from the star Vega and consists of a light engine that is based on four cylinders. As soon as this was launched, another low premium brand of the Vega was launched known as Cosworth Vega but this particular brand was available in limited stock. Although the design and layout was quite small as compared to the Chevrolet Vega, yet it was said that the engine was of a much more powerful nature which appealed quite a market share of which General Motors quite benefitted from. As the people started purchasing Vega, the company thought to expand its sale and to make a low budgeted, cost-efficient car so not only the upper class, but even the middle class can buy it and so, they launched in the market Chevrolet Chevette and Chevrolet Monza which were produced by the collaboration of three main manufacturers, Pontiac: the Astri and also the Safari Wagon.
In the later years as its popularity increases, Chevrolet vega was successful in outwitting a number of competitors like Ford pinto, Toyota, datsun, Volkswagen and other such competitors who were also quite excellent. This made Chevrolet Vega one of the most bestselling cars and in the year 1975, it was qualified as the top ten best selling cars in America.
However, the success story of Chevrolet vega was short lived and soon enough, it was a threat to General Motor’s reputation and earned it bad credit as there were ceaseless complaints that started pouring in from the customers such as several engine problems, pathetic build-in quality,. And endless trait of corrosions and thus the previous designs were cancelled and this car was reengineered and redesigned.
The car is quite economical and affordable which earned this car quite a credibility as every class could manage to afford it and in America, the car was rated the ninth affordable bestselling car. The car was also designed keeping all the safety measures in mind.
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