Most Embarrassing Car to drive
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Stuart Beattie (10-27-2014)
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I'm pretty much the same way. I like virtually anything with an internal combustion reciprocating engine. But while I wouldn't mind poking around under the hood of some of these ugly cars, there are some that I'd be embarrassed to be seen in the driver seat. Pontiac for instance, while the Trans Am has always been appealing, they get raspberries for the shame they brought upon the LeMans nameplate back in 1988. Had they named it anything else, it would have just been a boring little economy car that I could happily drive for what it was, but the blasphemy of calling it LeMans; I just couldn't be associated with such a travesty.
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Stuart Beattie (10-27-2014)
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Pardon my ignorance but I am totally unfamiliar with a "LeMans" Trans-Am. The LeMans trim levels I know of were Tempest/LeMans/GTO and later Tempest/Grand Am. I know they used the name on a compact in the '90s but it was never paired with an F-Body (Firebird/Camaro). I will however use this opportunity to share a picture of the Trans-Am I recently scooped
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The Trans Am was great! I was indeed talking about THIS Pontiac LeMans, a perfectly ordinary but boring little rebadged Daewoo. Nothing wrong with it except that an economy car should never carry a name that is so indelibly associated with a famous endurance race.
Pardon my ignorance but I am totally unfamiliar with a "LeMans" Trans-Am. The LeMans trim levels I know of were Tempest/LeMans/GTO and later Tempest/Grand Am. I know they used the name on a compact in the '90s but it was never paired with an F-Body (Firebird/Camaro). I will however use this opportunity to share a picture of the Trans-Am I recently scooped