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The Economy Car That Literally Burned Fuel
HE SPORTS CAR THAT GM BUILT TO FAIL: THE PONTIAC FIERO STORYMy New Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GP9TKPBH (History Written by Losers)Video Description:By 1978, Pontiac—GM’s famed "excitement division"—was in free fall, building uninspiring compliance cars while Japanese imports ate their lunch. They desperately wanted to build a mid-engine sports car, but an ironclad, unwritten GM law stood in the way: no division was ever permitted to build a car that challenged the Corvette. To get the car built, a brilliant engineer named Hulki Aldikacti had to do something extraordinarily reckless. He…
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