Like a Rock

I have some skin in the game:
I drive a Chevy.
My Riot 'Fire Down Under' album says Fire Down Below on the side.

"Twenty years, where'd they go?".
How in the world will Bob find a rhyme for that?
"Twenty years, I don't know".
Whew! Crisis averted

I'm keeping my Colorado.
 
I had a 1980 Chevy Chevette at some point in the 1980s. Last "Big Three" car I ever owned - been all Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, etc. since that POS.
 
If I ever spent my own hard earned money on a Chevy product.....


... just assume that I've had a brain aneurysm or I'm a bug in an edgar suit.


The only exception to this would be if I got a crazy stupid half price Corvette E-ray. :helper:
 
My first car was a 63 Chevy II Nova and I did own a Impala coupe at one time. Otherwise I don't care about songs in commercials.
 
We own two Chevys. My wife has a Bolt (their now discontinued little EV) and I was coerced into purchasing a Volt (long story) their plug in hybrid.

I grew up driving scuzzy little Toyotas and Hondas and appreciate Honda’s ability to churn out a nearly indestructible crap wagon that handles like an angry washing machine but will go 200k without even thinking about it.

This used Volt I had imposed upon me is probably “nicer” in terms of comfort/appointments/attempt at providing a driving experience better than a busted lawn mower, but it seems a bit like a shitbox waiting for the perfect moment to crap out. Little things go on the fritz randomly and then spontaneously resolve. Had to pay too much money to fix some baroque exhaust chiller thingamajig that threatened to instigate WWIII. Wants to commit murder suicide in even moderately slick road conditions. Turning radius of the RMS Titanic. Annoying sight lines.

It’s not a bad car, but it ain’t a good one.

I’d feel better about this situation if Bob Seger was reinstated as the cultural ambassador of America’s substandard auto production.
 
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The last Chevy I owned was an early 90s Geo Hatchback with a stick. Got it used off a lot in Bham for $4000 with around 50,000 mi on it. It was a decent little car and got around 30-33 mpg. It was big enough to fit my upright and a weekends worth of camping gear in, and was a solid little commuter. But at around 120,000 mi it started randomly overheating. Every time Id get it looked at it wouldn't do it for crap, then randomly it would. Wife bought a new car so I traded it in for a few pennies and started driving her old 1st year Saturn. The Saturns OD broke at 180,000 and I prob put another 80,000 on it before letting it go. Not because it didnt still run great, but all the plastic parts were starting to break off, it needed a headliner, tires, and paint, and we had too many cars at that point.
We were Saturn people for a long time but alas they are gone. We still the 2007 Vue but its got 220,000 and the ex is selling it and getting a new Rav4.
 
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