8 Forgotten American Sports Coupes Of The '80s
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"Lee IaCaCa?" I laughed so hard my head hurts
My AI brings all the LaCaCA to the yard
I lost it on the kitchen floor for ten minutes, and yes my head hurts. :)
But oh so appropriate, ain't it? By the 80s Chairman Lee was in cruise control motivated mostly on marketing his past achievements. K-cars and minivans only carried Mopar so far.
Some people may have thought he was "Cockka"🤷♂️
I heard ''I uh Kuh Kuh'' and thought the AI bot was talking about Biden.
1986 Lincoln Mark 7 and LSC Coupe. Ford Thunder Bird SC Coupe . Mercury Cougar XR7 , Capri GT
5.0 Fox body Capri. My ex mother in law had one.
My first new car was an '86 Cougar XR7. Loved that car. Very comfortable and fun to drive. Had a wimpy rear end though, not up to what the turbo 4 could put out. 😞 At that time, I never thought I'd like a 4 cylinder engine ... especially after I test drove the V6 Cougar, which was a real dog. But after test driving the XR7 I was hooked on that car.
That Ford Escort GT Turbo and EXP Turbo are now somewhat collectable. Not because they were high performance machines but because they are so rare.
My Friends Mother ( 93) still own her Beretta since 36 years.....the Car is a little bit run down, but gets new German TUV and apply for Historic license plate.............I try once to drive, and impressed me, runs smooth as silk.........
I used to own a 96 Z26 Beretta. Still have and love my 89 GTA.
@@ShawnStafford-1978 Rare vehicle !!!!!!
@@nudaveritas6322 The Beretta is rare. Or you mean both of them?
@@nudaveritas6322 Did you know the Chevy beretta was a corsica without the 4 doors. Its interesting they made a family car into a factory sporty version
@@ShawnStafford-1978 interesting fact never heard off !!!
I almost got myself a 1990 Sunbird GT Turbo coupe as my first ever car...then the guy fired the car up, and it puffed smoke like crazy. But I still to this day love the look
These cars were so rare that you can't even find them in a rarities salvage yard. They were so bad, they were buried and hidden for the world would forget they were ever built.
I seen them around town back in the day. I think body styles of that day were too ugly to be valued as a classic, and performance was lacking.
There's a nice Buick Reatta still cruising my neighborhood.
And one covered in moss at another house 🙄
These cars were fun.
I had a Daytona, my brother had a sunbird, my friend had the Buick.
Nice list, brought back nice memories of driving these things for me.
Reatta will always be my favorite Gm car of the 85-95 era. Test drove one but the smell of coolant scared me off, I’d had a 3.8 car before, but something was seriously wrong to blow a head gasket. Still, that drive was the most memorable of my life. It’s like Star Trek tng in car form
I loved my '86 laser! Wish I still had it. It was such a great car. Handled beautifully in the snow and the mpg's couldn't be beat! It was a great bargain sports car!
A friend of mine had the Shelby turbo Charger 5 speed. Awsome car. Man it could smoke the tires.
It had crazy sun visors mounted at the rear of the headliner. We called them Beer Visors. Gold and black.
I miss both my EXP's, too!
The car in the thumbnail looks alot like the 6000 SUX from ROBOCOP
Valeu pela História automotiva. Gostei muito.
The McLaren mustang looks like a mercury Capri
Awesome video. I had 2 of the cars on here and miss them
OH THE 3000 SUX LOOKS GREAT!
I had a friend who had a Shelby version of the Chrysler Laser. 0:57 Think it was a Daytona
I had a 70 Pontiac Tempest. My buddy's dad had a 74 Trans Am with a 455 and a 4 speed. He also had an LTD wagon with a 351 Cleveland with a Holley double pumper and headers with cutout pipes.
Sleeper/grocery getter.
Long gone, and not missed.
Thanks!
I wanted a Conquest so bad back then.
Don't forget the Chevrolet X-11.
Great video that is evidence of just how boring the 1980's were when it came to cars.
In the mid 1980s I worked next door to the Zimmer assembly plant in Pompano Beach Florida. I wish that I'd had thought to take a photo of the finished products lined along their fence. (There would often be four of five of lined up in a row.)
Dodge Mirada was nice car
my bestie in high school had a later, Plymouth marked Laser. It was adorable, but not well taken car and never ran well or fast. It was beautiful in electric blue and had a TINY backseat. Also had the largest air filter I've ever seen in a production car,.
There’s a reason these cars are forgotten
Great vid!!!!
1990-93 Grand Prix Turbo 3.1v6. T-Bird Turbo Coupes & Fox body Mustang,s early to mid 1980,s, all have the 2.3L with Turbo.
Zimmer Quicksilver is gorgeous.
I like the Zimmer Quicksilver. ✌🏽❤️💛🖤🎶🇦🇺
"0 to 60 in a neck breaking 9 seconds" 😂😂
Had an '84 Chrysler Laser, '88 Dodge Daytona Shelby Z and a '92 Plymouth Laser.
4:41 Wish I had a Sunbird GT instead of the base model Sunbird long ago. The base version was terrible
Ummmm, I’d hardly call the Mirada a sports coupe, use in nascar aside. It was a personal luxury car.
I’m buying a Mirada
Awe$ome
You know about Cord and said laser was first American front wheel drive sports car.
Best forgotten.
Squeezed and pulled and hurt my neck in 1988...
Mooi spul veel nog nooit gezien. Ik gok gewn van allen ooit in Europa verkocht
We need someone like that here in america
The Laser was a POS with horrible torque steer. Especially with the turbo and associated turbo lag!
I had a mirada cmx with a 318 when i was 17 was fun car
Best forgotten
I sat in the back seat of a laser once. I literally had to bend forward and lock my arms under my knees. No room at all back there.
I saw a Zimmer Quicksilver at a car show once and immediately wanted one.
“Jag wire” . 😂
They all stink if we're honest, but I do miss the 80s!
The beginning of the video was so dramatic
The market was won by Camaro and Mustang. This was Chrysler's 15 years of denial about the popularity of ponycars.
❤️💯💯🏆
Loved my exp
A lot of these cars are coupes. Calling them sport coupes is a stretch
Ahh yess, when shitty underpowered North American made cars received sporty cosmetics, front-wheel drive and 4-cyclinder (alleged) turbo engines. They were over-priced for the time yet everybody wanted one for the hip-factor 'you were successful' in whatever you were doing. The Ford EXP and the 2-door Escort were affordable for those just out of College with your first job in the early 80s. My favourite was the Dodge Omni .024 coupe. The Pontiac Fiero was a massive seller with its mid-engine novelty, I can't remember seeing any Fiero's on the road after the early 90s.
I would not call them forgotten i would classify them as forgettable.
The Chrysler Conquest TSI was a better car because it was a rear wheel drive.
Cars in those days where abomonations at best. Junk.
The 80s Fox Bodies still kicked ass.. It checked all the right boxes 📦 when it came to a lightweight v8 race car.. Shove a 460ci BBF in it n you're hauling ass no matter what..lol
I owned a Dodge Daytona turbo z that thing was fun it got stolen and never found it I
Where's the turbo coupes
Should be called Garbage cars of the 80’s. Like almost all 80’s cars, these were particularly junk.
Reeata not Rayata. Lol.
Laser was a Plymouth no?
There was the Chrysler Laser 84-86, and the Plymouth Laser 89-92. Two completely different cars, mechanically.
The Zimmer...don't remember that one. But a long front hood (frunk?) but with a mid-engine? WHY?
I dunno about any of these forgotten coupés being worthy of mention today; they just weren't very good cars. I mean any car built off the bones of an AMERICAN Ford Escort can't be all bad, can it? Hell yes it can, and was. And frankly anything built using that cluster f*** of a J-platform is going to be a hot mess, though most didn't know it at the time. The Daytona...who wants a "sporty" K-car? Exactly.
The only one of this batch that sort of deserved better was the Reatta. It really wasn't that bad of a car but it had the misfortune of being tied to the wrong GM brand: Buick. Back then every "knew" that grandparents owned Buicks, and that was an image that only was removed once GM started selling them in China. That allowed the label to wallow here in the U.S. off those profits for enough time that boomers and Gen Xers would be weeding themselves out of the key car market demographic and GM could rebuild the brand to cater to a younger adult/family dynamic. Even the raised chest hair, now 80s iconic Grand National would've done far better sales-wise had it not been saddled in Buick showrooms. Tripping over customer canes and walkers while shopping for the rebirth of the muscle car...not a good showroom experience.
I don’t see how a Dodge/Chrysler built by Mitsubishi in Japan is an American Muscle car
There wasn't any such thing in this video. My guess is you were talking about the Chrysler Laser. That car was US-made with US parts including the drivetrains; it was a variant of the K-cars. It's completely unrelated to the Plymouth Laser which was Mitsubishi-designed with Mitsubishi drivetrains, although it still had body components and assembly in the US.
@@kc9scottThink it was from the introduction of the K cars era. The Stealth was basically the Mitsubishi car.
@@ShawnStafford-1978 The Dodge Stealth / Mitsubishi 3000GT was another completely separate Mitsubishi car, built in Japan, in a higher price class than either the K-car-based Laser/Daytona (FWD only), or the DSM cars (Laser/Talon/Eclipse, with optional AWD). The Stealth/3000GT had a V6 engine with optional AWD, while the others had 4-cylinders. I had an '85 Chrysler Laser XE Turbo, and then traded to a '92 Plymouth Laser AWD.
Without exception, all cars lack any kind of styling, look at the cars of the 60's and see what I mean....
Anyone remember the aftermarket Pontiac Firebird Trans-am Trojan model? That was a ugly car.
8) Chrysler Laser. It was forgotten on purpose because it was Front-Wheel-Drive and a Four-banger engine.
7) Dodge Mirada. No, it was a luxury car with a big block engine.
6) Ford EXP trubo. If it is FWD, it can't/shouldn't ever be called a sports car.
5) Buick Reatta. A Sports car. Your joking right?
4) Pontiac Sunbird GT. 4:44 As plain as it looks, it is questionable as if it isn't Front-Wheel-Drive. (The same mistake they made with the last GTO.) And it looking exzactly like the failed Chvy Monza
didn't help it either.
3) Ford Mustang McLaren. I can tell you the correct drivetrain oilines to mosts cars. Some you might not have heard of, (Like a make called Moon. *) and I have never heard of this before.
2) The Zimmer Quicksilver is a kit-car and doesn't count twice. One for being a kit. Two for what it is based on has never been forgotten. There are both some love and some hate fans for the
Pontiac Fiero.
1) Buick Century turbo coupe. No one forgot on purpose. This car is so ugly they got shock trauma based amnesia because of it.
* Moon Motor Car Company. It would take you a few pages of extnsions to find it, Grahm-Paige is connected to them. And Chrysler bought Grahm for their trucks. So, to correctly Resto-mod a
A. Moon would be to put an engine and drivetrain from one of these makes. Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, International, Chrysler, Dodge or Plymouth.
- Bonus - Maxwell. It was bought by Chrysler in 1921, was absorbed by Chrysler in 1925, was produced as a Chrysler product for 1926 in it's last year and was rebadged as Plymouth in 1928.
Signed-Richard.
Sunbird GT was strictly FWD. The last GTO was strictly RWD. IMO the Chevy Monza looked quite good. I'm not sure why you say "failed". AFAIK it sold in average numbers for the time, but had the same kind of problems typical with any GM product.
@@kc9scott You answered your own question. It didn't sale a lot like Chevy wanted it to and it always had problems. A sibling had one and it was always in the nearest shop.
Such horrible cars, with the possible exception of the Zimmer and maybe the McLaren. I remember them all.
Begotten
All of the aforementioned coupes are turds.
Dude needs to learn how to pronounce these car names he’s butchering all of them lol
It’s not a person reading the script. It’s a computer generated voice.
Ya, the 80's. The worst decade for American cars. Forgetting them was easy. Ugly plastic crap.
The Mustang 5.0 was fun though.
Damn those are some seriously ugly cars
lee lacaca sounds stinky
• Spoiler / not spoiler #1 - None of these are "sports coupé" cars. In fact, no Murrrcan car sold during the entire 'malaise' period, can be called 'sporty' in any way. 😄
• Spoiler / not spoiler #2 - The A.I. writing and narration are _complete rubbish._ These examples are some of the very worst I've ever heard. 🙄
Is the entire channel _this bad?_ 😬
In my opinion, 80's car design sucked!
The Ford 2dr Crown Victoria was mint, imo.. Maybe that's why it's not here..lol
These were all terrible cars.