Believe it or not, 1983 was 40 years in the past. How that occurred, we’re nonetheless not totally positive, however no matter. No time for one other existential disaster in the present day. We’ve received hatchbacks to speak about. Specifically, the 4 hatchbacks that MotorWeek included within the newest “compare-a-car road test” that tv’s automotive journal simply posted on its YouTube channel.
They’re not precisely probably the most thrilling vehicles that MotorWeek has ever examined, however they do make us lengthy for the times when household sedans weren’t solely supplied with boring outdated trunks. Although we actually received’t complain about how a lot faster vehicles have gotten within the final 40 years. In the check, the Stanza took 13.7 seconds to hit 60 mph, and the quickest automobile within the group, the Pontiac Phoenix, nonetheless wanted 11.7 seconds to stand up to hurry.
And whereas John Davis’s use of “Oriental” to explain the Japanese contenders actually hasn’t aged nicely, the design of the Mazda 626 positively has. It seems dated, positive, however we’d argue it nonetheless seems incredible. And who doesn’t love oscillating air vents? Why Mazda stopped utilizing these, we’ll by no means perceive. They had been cool, Mazda! Getting rid of them was impolite, and we don’t recognize it one bit.
As far as which automobile received and the way all of them stacked up on the finish of the check, we’re not going to spoil something. If you need to understand how nicely the Toyota Camry did, you’ll have to look at the video for your self. Just be sure to have a while to dedicate to watching it as a result of, not like loads of the retro opinions that MotorWeek posts on YouTube, this one’s almost a half-hour lengthy. On the opposite hand, which means you get virtually half-hour of listening to John Davis, which appears like a reasonably nice deal to us.
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