Worst cars of the '80s from General Motors!

The worst cars from General Motors during the 80s!
Thank you to those who submitted a poll entry.
Because of this, this week's video is dedicated to the cars of the '80s
I hope no one gets mad with the El Camino entry. I 100% understand that it's a hot take. I did my research and came to this conclusion.

500 likes for a Chrysler video!!!

Chapters
0:00 -Intro
0:23 -Car 1
3:36 -Car 2
6:48 -Car 3
9:45 -Car 4
12:20 -Car 5
13:30 -Tier List
14:06 -Outtro
Music: by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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[The_R-n-I_Guy]

The worst cars from the 80's are better than the crossover garbage people drive today!

[DBlake]

My husband bought me an ‘85 Firebird when we were newlyweds. Gorgeous car, but the transmission was a lemon. We were visiting family out of state. Despite the fact that we had the extended warranty, the dealer there refused to touch it. When we got back home, the dealer there suggested we take it to the dealer where we bought it. He WAS the dealer we bought it from. We haven’t set foot in a GM dealership since.

[thatcarguyUZ]

My first car (I was 18 in 1992) was a 1980 Olds 98 diesel. It was originally grandfather's car. It's first engine blew up when it was one-year-old. But the engine that replaced it was one of the improved engines. That engine went well over 200, 000 miles because my grandparents frequently traveled between Philadelphia and California and also between Philadelphia and Miami. I got the car because my grandfather had gotten another car when the transmission went bad on the Oldsmobile. I got it for free on the condition that I could fix it. I put another Transmission in it and I drove it for four more years. It finally died because it got rear-ended by a dump truck while I was sitting at a red light. I know the early old diesels were bad engines, but the later version actually wasn't terrible. It was definitely gutless. But I had a big American luxury car with ice cold air conditioning and blast furnace Heat that rode like a cloud, and managed to get almost 30 miles per gallon. Back in the early to mid-90s that was pretty good.

[The_R-n-I_Guy]

The Iron Duke was rough and underpowered. But it was reliable. Only the 3800 V6 was more reliable

[superbird]

My dad had a 1979 Delta 88 Diesel. He installed his own water separator, and did oil changes constantly. Traded it in after 6 years. It actually worked quite well. Fuel efficiency was awesome and it had a 102 Liter tank. Slow as hell though even by '80s standards.

[sidgreentherhymeofreason]

Chevrolet Celebrity was not an awful car. You would do better looking at the Chevette. The Chevette didn't have a lot of power, plus it took forever to get to 0-60 most of the time. If you ask me, I would rather have a Celebrity over a Chevette any day.

[a.leemorrisjr.]

Wagon pictured is actually a '76. I had 1, a Grand Lemans Coupe. Like a baby Grand Prix. Yes, it was very trouble prone, lousy. It was comfortable, quiet, rode nicely, but engine/transmission issues were common😮! My first & last GM.

[toddburgess]

A shiny new black Cadillac was parked next to me, back in the 80s, when the lady driver sauntered up, slid in and cranked that locomotive up!
I jumped in my seat, it jolted my senses so bad!!
My thought at the time was, "Where has GM gone?!?!", and can now say I've seen the rise and complete failure of an empire.
There was an old saying, "What's good for GM is good for America!", but that has changed several times and several corporations with, I suppose, some Chinese company filling that role today.

[pinkflydnt]

He mentioned the Skylark as a sister car to the Firenza, Cavalier, Sunbird and the Cimarron but it was an X Body like the Citation, Phoenix and Omega; it was the Skyhawk that was J Car.

[dartsport]

4:53 mark—The GM president Peter Estes already warned the Cadillac General manager
they didn’t have enough time to make the Cimarron. Yet they went against him and made the Cimarron. 7:30 mark- One of the engineers who worked on the diesel engine told his boss’s don’t release this and he ended up getting fired. Very interesting. It’s the way HISTORY is. You have some people out there that have good ideas and they get overridden. It’s like that in life. Now I’m going to add to this, tragically though those people that have good ideas may be intelligent and correct but are sometimes forced against their will resulting in them going forward with the bad idea that the majority is pushing, and then they get blamed for it when it backfires being the fall guy . It’s like that in companies, public service, like Police Department/Fire Department (even in the hospital emergency room. ) maybe even executive offices as well. It’s not like the movies where there is some guy who has the right idea & wins against the group of people who oppose it. I wish it was that easy, but it isn’t.

[maxmoritz]

The German model of the Le Mans aka Opel Kadett was also offered with a 2.0l 115 hp engine as a counterpart to the Golf GTI and as a 2.0 16V GSI with 150 hp. And it was also available as a convertible.

[TheDarkPhoenix]

Some great points here, though the J body was never intended to "replace" the X body. The eventual replacement for the X came in the form of the A bodies Ciera), which even then used an X body chassis and components. Because so much money had been invested in the X body program, the X and the A bodies were sold from 82-85 side by side. The X was simply phased out, allowing the A to fill the void.

[truckcamper]

Made in the 80s they still make junk 2023

[michaelafsa]

I had a 1979 Chevy El Camino with the 5 liter V8 and it was a good truck, drove it to 150, 000 miles with only regular maintenance and it drove like a car. Should of kept it.

[AsteroidsDeluxe]

Back in September of 1990 my friend gave me a ride in his company car Lemans. I was thinking how modern and terrible this car is at the same time.

[yungkidnf]

I knew the Caballero existed. It was previously known as the GMC Sprint for the a body platform.

[jamielee]

I have a Olds cutlass that came with the 350 olds diesel. When I pulled the engine the car had 205k mi. All that was really done was maintenance. I pulled it just to swap it to a gas engine.

[Themadhattter]

In the case of the La Mans in the '80's GM was trying slinging anything against the wall hoping anything would stick.

[michaelwilliams]

My first car was a 1981 Chevrolet Citation. I graduated from high school in 1991, and my late parents bought it for me ($1000). It was the four-door hatchback model, and it was beige with tan interior. That car was AWFUL!

[milfordcivic]

So many oldsmobiles went to the boneyard far too early because of the diesel engines