To drive a roomy American low-trim sedan yet with decent bucket seats, accurate and light manual steering, utterly devoid of the heavy-engine induced terminal understeer, a slick stick on the floor, decent brakes, and a willingness to be tossed about like a bowl of fresh baby greens. These cars are good values. That car is exactly like the one my father-in-law bought from Hertz! Plus, it was available with a wide variety of drive trains and trim levels, which affected everything from performance to comfort. My college friends often kidded me about the the square, non-sporty body style. Took a while before the truth turned up because it would not die despite being terribly overloaded. This from the same many who owned and kept a Colonnade Chevy rust free in Ontario winters. A revelation indeed; Detroit could actually build what somehow seemed so utterly elusive for so long, at least since the Corvair: a true European-type sedan without any European trade-offs, starting with the price.The Fairmont wagon takes the Volvo comparisons to even greater heights; I’m hard pressed to think of another wagon that comes as close. Really? But by the following year, it was discontinued in (dis)favor of the boat-anchor in-line 250.Those were the years when the deutschemark/dollar exchange ratio was out of control; a time when “cheap” VWs sold for almost twice what American-built cars would go for. © 2020 Autotrader, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lola writes: Cargo Capacity: Family Car: Fuel Economy: Front Seats: Handling: Maintenance Cost: Price: Power: Reliability: Looks/Style: Overall: 1 3 5.

Pathetic is the word.I rented several of them and a friend was stuck with one after he was totally hosed in a divorce, and all the time I was reading the article, I kept thinking, “This article has got to be a put on!”, but I guess it was serious. Build Quality: self tapping screws and tiewraps all-around Well, my ever so thrifty father had a Mercury Zephyr version, a red two-door, with Ford’s long-lived Lima 2.3 OHC four and a four speed stick on the floor. It’s body didn’t hold up well either and it was basically scrap by 1990 when it was replaced by a much better Taurus. I remember when “Car and Driver” kitted out a Fairmont 2-door to be the Eurocar it was meant to be (Recaro seats, suspension upgrades, great stereo, etc. It’s a crass generalization, but Ford quality, handling, engine driveability, and a few other aspects were, on average, the bottom of the Big Three barrel.

They have been extremely reliable and easy to work on. You can rely on Stant for defect-free, … No air conditioning also has a little play in the steering, I’m hoping I can figure out and fix that too. She thought it frighteningly slow compared to her Malibu (no ball of fire itself, but the 267 was up almost 40 horsepower in a car that was only a bit heavier) and more so compared to her previous car, a ’68 Impala with a 327. Detroit was still operating in the “have it your way” mode in the late 1970s. $15,825. Or to borrow that other headline: very Volvo-esque indeed. I prefer to not drive a billboard. Perfectly put too. I had read the comparisons to the Volvo 240 and as a (poor) car enthusiast it was affordable.

Another friend went from Volvo 244 to one of these, and after 200,000 miles, yet another.One of my girlfriends needed a new car to replace her old V8 Nova, and I did help her buy a 1980 Futura 302. {"data":{"vehicles":[],"saved_vehicles":[],"message":""}} Handles like its on rails, and tons of power.

I loathe car payments, and wish to trade and pay cash. The base price of the Fairmont was about $630 less than that of a Chevrolet Malibu, which translates into $2,600 today. I believe that a decient (notice I didn’t say “good”) v6 could have extended it’s life as when I was looking for something similar in ’81, I wound up with a Buick Skylark Sport Sedan, v6 4-speed. Except as expressly authorized by automobile-catalog.com, you agree not to copy, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, assign, distribute, perform, display, license, reverse engineer or create derivative works based on the Site or any Content available through the Site.

Ford and the Detroiters never got, and I’m not sure if they get it even now, people with self-respect don’t keep selling the same old restyled crap, but put in a few bucks to the mechanical design as well.

Like the Cavalier introduced in 1982.

and bought me a stone stock 1979 Ford Fairmont station wagon with only 53K miles on it. One could probably count the number of people who cross-shopped a Fairmont and a Chevrolet Impala/Caprice on both hands, and have fingers left over.Despite how they were marketed, many people cross-shopped the new Malibu and Fairmont, it was hard not to.



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