For reasons that trolly shouters on both extremes of the American politico-socio-automotive spectrum know to be the truth, the exact same workers at the Fremont Assembly plant who couldn't hammer together a decent-quality Buick Regal or GMC C/K— no matter how many Mickey's Big Mouths they guzzled in some South Hayward parking lot before their shifts— suddenly became capable of building rebadged Corollas that were every bit as good as the ones made by their Japanese counterparts, once the plant became NUMMI (nowadays they build Teslas there). Of course, each of you knows that this is due to (insert damning indictment of those dupes who believe Wrong Things here) with a touch of (insert bilious tirade that sounds the alarm about Some Evil Conspiracy here), and to provide ammunition for your arguments I present this 1988 Chevrolet-badged AE82 Toyota Sprinter aka Corolla.
These cars are not uncommon in self-service wrecking yards nowadays, especially in California. In this series, we've seen this '87 sedan and this '87 hatchback, and now we've got today's final-year-of-production (before it became the Geo Prizm) Nova, which I spotted in a Denver yard a few months back.
244,816 miles, which is impressive even by 2015 standards. Sure, they probably weren't very exciting miles, but nobody bought a NUMMI Nova for adventure.
The good old 4A engine family, which went into Coronas, Corollas, MR2s, Celicas, Sprinters, and so forth, all the way into the late 1990s. Some 4As made great power, but the 4A-LC was more about longevity and fuel economy.
Brought to you by Chevrolet and Toyota.
You can get an American car
and a foreign car!
Of course, the Japanese version was much more
sexy.
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