Hatchback Cars From The 70s

I must say that my most beloved car of the 70s was a 1974 ford pinto.

Hatchback cars from the 70s. The hatchback was offered from 1982. For smoother and more effortless braking the dual circuit brakes were power assisted. And for every hundred volkswagen golfs that we see at classic car. You could fix anything on this vehicle as long as you had a hammer and phillips head screwdriver.

The first gen cars with the round headlights and the optional 400 cubic inch engine werent bad as far as oversized 70s personal luxury coupes went. The 1979 peugeot 104 zs 3 door hatchback had a 1124 cc engine that produced a top speed of 97 mph with a 0 60 time of around 15 seconds. The front or all wheel drive cordia was available with a base 14 liter engine with 68 galloping ponies. Famed as being britains first five door five speed hatchback the austin maxi was the last car designed under the british motor corporation and hit british roads in 1969.

Still there is a lot of variation amongst these vehicles even within those confines. 6 thoughts on 1970s cars. Designed in the late 1960s it owned the early 70s as the unofficial car of the rat pack not to mention as the car of choice for guys like rod stewart and miles davis. Most of 2018s best hatchbacks come from the subcompact and compact car classes which is to be expected.

But these cars died a death in 72 making these last of the line 71s perfect candidates for the chevy muscle hall of fame. As a child of the 70s ive both seen and been in in a fair amount of the abominations below. The 1970s had a whole different style of atrocious automobiles than say the ugly cars of the 80salthough wood paneling was not as huge as it would be in the future drab colors vinyl roofs teardrop windows and overall boxy builds dominated the auto industry. Still there is a lot of variation amongst these vehicles even within those confines.

Have cost them dearly if gm didnt have all the other j body cars to make up for missteps. Chrysler billed the cordoba as a personal luxury coupe and hired ricardo montalban as its pitchman. Hatchbacks were increasing in popularity and buick responded by coming out with the buick skyhawk a quintessential mid seventies car. Joining the aforementioned ford exp and mercury ln7 in 1982 was the mitsubishi cordia a car whos name was reportedly a strange amalgam of the words cordite a mineral and diamond.