Yep, the Chevy Vega had lots of potential. It just had some fatal design flaws, certainly fixable, if they had just spent a bit more time in testing and development of the concepts it introduced. It is really too bad that the US auto industry really messed up the early venture into the compact car arena. But the fact that the Vega engine was junk from the factory, made lots of Vegas readily available for HomeMadeTool kind of guys to play with.

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