Why These 9 Cars Nearly Destroyed America’s Car Industry In The 1970s

Three of these nine cars won Motor Trend Car Of The Year. One starred as a flying car in a James Bond film. And together, they’re the reason millions of American buyers walked away from Detroit and never came back. From the Chevrolet Vega’s self-destructing aluminum engine to the Ford Pinto’s deadly fuel tank lawsuit, the AMC Gremlin sketched on an airsick bag, the glass-walled AMC Pacer, the Dodge Aspen’s award-and-recall paradox, the Dodge Omni scandal, the Lincoln Versailles badge-engineering disaster, the AMC Matador Coupe, and the Chevrolet Chevette that outsold its own bad reviews, this is the full story of Detroit’s worst decade. Which one do you think never should have left the drawing board? #ClassicCars #MuscleCars #1970sCars