The early 1980s weren’t a great time for U.S.-built cars. Compared to the flamboyant, fire-spitting, and fast muscle cars of the 1960s, the offerings from major U.S. automakers in the late 1970s and early 1980s looked like corporate suits — soulless, stiff, and boring. There were multiple reasons for the dramatic shift in attitude, with the 1973 and 1979 oil crises, increasingly strict emissions requirements, and serious foreign competition being the main catalysts of the downward spiral. Those factors
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