Chevrolet Chevette 1985 model year promotional film
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- A variation of the GM T-Car for the US market launched, the Chevrolet version initially used the Vauxhall Chevette hatchback body design but from 1978 a new 4-door hatchback body was available. This is a promotional film detailing the 1985 model year changes.
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Over 90% of Chevettes are still on the road. The other 10% actually made it home.
how original
not like i've heard this for every car brand ever
Of course, the technical platform is from Japan. This is just a basically a Isuzu Gemini for US Domestic Market
So Chevy Chevette is a rebadged Isuzu Gemini for USDM
@@montesa35 The GM T-platform was first introduced in Brazil in 1973 as the Chevette, a full year and a half before the Gemini.
@@punchy207 But in the case of our beloved Chevette, it's probably true!
I had a porter job in 1989 at a used car lot. The owner went out and but 3 dozen red and white Chevettes from the auction. They were US post office vehicles. Half of em were missing passanger seats. It always seemed a salesman would sell one with a missing seat. I spent all summer taking one seat out of one and putting it in another.
Keep pushing that body side molding and I’m sold!
Don’t forget the map pocket!
They had me had sport mirrors!
I loved my 'vette! Best car i had! So many memories in that little car. My 1st car.
Seconded
I miss my Chevette. Great little car. 2 door, 5 speed, just awesome. I really want another one
I'm sure there's still one or two on the road somewhere.. You'd just have to hire a broker to hunt one down for you..
Me too
I'm glad the front suspension has "full coil springs" because half just wouldn't cut it.
Same when i went to buy two half shafts, he'd only sell me a full shaft.
4400lb towing capacity now I'd like to see that!
I was happy if I got above 65 mph. Downhill, wind at my back, $9 fill-ups. Bliss.
I loved my 1984 chevette 2 door coupe, mine was cream with black interior, it was an awesome little car!
Can you imagine towing a 20 foot speedboat with your 51 hp chevette diesel?
Yes, it would be like interacting with aliens & suffering from missing time!
No problem ! That boat and trailer would push you down a steep grade in a jiffy , might even beat you to the bottom of whatever lake / river / ocean that is there to crash into!!!
Those cars could barely get out of their own way UNLOADED...
Right? My first car was an automatic transmission '86 Chevette, it was maybe 8 years old when I got it. It couldn't even do 55 mph up a steep hill empty, let alone tow anything. It was a terrible car. lol
@@2008gore Yes and no. I got 221K out of that slow little thing, so...
I miss my Vette
This convinced me, I'm going to get one.
Oh boy, I’m gonna buy a brand new Chevette!
I dodged this bullet only to buy an 1980 Oldsmobile Omega. Yeah, I was all about buying quality in those days! LOL
I miss my Chevettes !! 😁
Wow 4400lbs this little car was able to tow better in 1985 then the majority of crossover suvs nowadays, that's sad 😔
I like how she used the word “prospect” Instead of “sucker”…
Despite its flaws the Chevette was extremely cheap to own and operate. Almost cheaper than taking the city bus.
The current Malibu has a black out and red trim package. It's hard to believe that in a few months Chevrolet won't have any more sedans.
I had one. Pretty good car.
@B Brunson of course currently, cars are pretty much gone, except for really small cars equally if not smaller than the Chevette and most people flocking to SUV's. It's a shame as many laugh about these Chevette's (along with the Citation's) considering the many faults they endured, but my guess it was the fast reaction to the invasion of imports back in the late 70's onward and the domestics threw out there what they had to in order to compete and once tweaked out everyone's tastes changed.
@@milepost4846 and the suvs have all shrunk into cars
Offering an even slower and louder diesel in the Chevette was just cruel. They should have made automatic + airconditioning mandatory to finish the deal. The car would have gone backwards when you turned on the AC.
I got my Chevette up to 120mph..after driving off a cliff.
The first new car my parents bought was a Chevette.
they are not going to make the opel kadett, opel astra in the US no more
A "demonstration drive", ay?
Tows 4,400 pounds? How?? It has barely enough torque to pull the skin off a Jell-O pudding
Where can I buy a new Chevette?
In the Twilight zone.
i would recommend meth to achieve this, enter a new dimension
If you use the Time Machine to do THAT I swear I'll slap the heck out of you!! Lol!!
Get me one!
Carpet! Standard? Where's my nearest Chevy dealer??
AM radio too!
Zero to sixty times... we don't know. They started the test when the first Chevettes came out, and those cars STILL haven't achieved 60 mph...
The Chevette is to cars what Huffy is to bicycles. Tough sounding but ultimately not very good. Bargain basement and it'll never let you forget it. I'm not trying to bash or troll Chevette lovers but by 1985 this car was very much behind the times (you could argue it wasn't great in 1976.) The organization I worked for in college during the early 1990s had a couple of 1985 Chevettes as fleet cars. Granted these were older, well-used - but also well-maintained - cars by this time. I have to say that the Chevette was the worst car I have every driven, before or since. I found the car to be slow, uncomfortable, noisy, and had 1970s Fisher-Price plastics on the dashboard. At least it was hard-wearing, I suppose, but the rear wheel drive was not ideal for Northeast weather. No wonder they were always the last vehicles to be snapped up at the motor pool. The Chevette represented basic transportation at its best (or worst).
I must finally add that I love these old, nostalgic videos. You never see any Chevettes these days, or many cars from the 1980s, so it's fun to see them preserved on the interweb.
By 85 this car and 1000 were painfully out of date.everybody else had better options..and had them for years.
I’d rather replace the H and E with an O and R…
Tows over 4,400 lbs?! How?! With 65 horsepower it can't even get up and go with 4 skinny people sitting in it.
Accomplished only when driving downhill.
Towing 4400lbs with a car that weighs 1600lbs...
Still better than the crap trucks they make today for 60,000 dollars.
Tows over 4400lbs when properly equipped...i.e., when hooked up to a tow truck.
@@johnjennings8085 Haha yeah right. What planet you living on?
Me and my exwife when we were dating used the 28.8 feet for the purpose it was intended wink wink I was always stiff after that and before.
I always hear: "...helps fight corrosion". At last I get it, it helps corrosion fight the metal..
They are on the road preparing to be put on a tow truck.
Until GM forced corporate styling on the Australian TX Isuzu, ours and the Isuzu 4 door sedan and 2 door coupe/hatch were the best versions of this spunky happy little car. Then GM fucked it up. As usual.
lol at the way they talk up features such as an "air dam", and yes people bought this nonsense
This is no nonsense, dude. What you are saying is nonsense.