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Designing the pride of Pontiac // Sporty Fiero was exotic car for the masses
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The Pontiac Fiero seemed too good to be true when it arrived as a
1984 model.
Here was a two-seater with the mid-engine, space-frame design of
an exotic Italian sports car. It even had a sleek, no-rust plastic
body.
And the car was from Pontiac - not Italy's Ferrari or
Lamborghini, although Fiero means "very proud" in Italian.
This was the first affordable exotic car for the masses. It
also was the first high-volume two-seater from a U.S. automaker since
the classic 1955-57 ...
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Designing the pride of Pontiac // Sporty Fiero was exotic car for the masses
Chicago Sun-Times
; The Pontiac Fiero seemed too good to be true when it arrived as a 1984 model. Here was a two-seater with the mid-engine, space-frame design of an exotic Italian sports car. It even had a sleek, no-rust plastic body. And the car was from Pontiac - not Italy's Ferrari or Lamborghini, although Fiero
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IT TOOK A FEW YEARS, BUT AT LAST FIERO GT IS RIGHT FOR THE ROAD
The Boston Globe
; Car design is a fragmented process largely achieved by committee consensus. It is a process that includes politics, economics, government and just plain managerial meddling as much as engineering and art. Once, the function of auto design was simply seeking a better place for the engine under the
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FAREWELL, FIERO PONTIAC'S FUTURISTIC 2-SEATER WILL SOON BE A CAR OF THE PAST
The Boston Globe
; It's not exactly the end of an era - the time frame is too short for that -- but 1988 marks the end of Fiero, Pontiac's plastic-skinned two-seater. It debuted in autumn 1983 to a mob of buyers -- a somewhat overweight, underpowered technological curiosity. It will exit in the waning days of summer
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Fiero had short but fascinating run
Winnipeg Free Press
; ... were also used on GM's Saturn car. Despite its short life, the Fiero has developed a devoted band of enthusiastic followers and clubs. It should have good future collectible value, especially the V6, five-speed GT version. -- Canwest News Service
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Allante proved critics right // Caddy sports car was gimmicky - and slow
Chicago Sun-Times
; It seemed incredible when the word got out in the mid-1980s that Cadillac had decided to build a sports car. The automaker always had been known for luxury cars, so a racy two-seater didn't seem to make sense. But the popular 560SL two-seat convertible from archrival Mercedes-Benz prompted Cadillac
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Corvette may get the Fiero treatment
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... 1993, possibly combining some tooling with the less expensive Pontiac Fiero, a metals industry publication said. Metalworking News, which tracks tooling and equipment orders of major industries, reported that GM's Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada group is considering ...
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A SPORTS CAR TRIMMED IN MINK
The Boston Globe
; You are a builder of world-class sedans. You are Lexus, upscale brand of Toyota, and you make them as well as anyone on the planet. But now you want to offer a sports car. Not only to attract younger buyers, but also the older faithful who want a certain pizzazz of their own. That calls for
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[ Successful family car producer Chevrolet didn't really need its first Corvette sports car... ]
Chicago Sun-Times
; Successful family car producer Chevrolet didn't really need its first Corvette sports car, introduced in 1953. That wasn't the case at Studebaker which created its radical 1963 Avanti sports coupe to try to help save the company. Chrysler Corp. introduced its rakish Dodge Viper sports car in 1992
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A sports car that's fit for the family.(FEATURES)(WORK & MONEY)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Eric C. Evarts Other cars go whoopity, whoopity, whoopity; Mazda engines go hummmmm. That was Mazda's claim to fame when it brought its full line of rotary-engine cars to the United States in the late 1960s. After a long gap that hummmmm is back with the RX-8, Mazda's first four-seater
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Austin-Healey was definitive middle-class sports car
Chicago Sun-Times
; The rakish British Austin-Healey looked as if it might have come from Ferrari, but it essentially was the definitive middle-class foreign sports car for Americans. The 1953-67 Austin-Healey was an immediate hit because it filled a gap in the sports car market between the low-priced MG and costly
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