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The Clever Engineering Of Shipping The Chevy Vega By Train - Jalopnik
Chevrolet/Wikimedia Commons On paper, the Chevrolet Vega — unrelated to the $185,000 1958 Facel Vega Excellence — sure seemed like it was going to reinvent both General Motors and the American auto industry as a whole when it debuted in 1971. After all, nearly everything about the car, from its engineering to its assembly plant, was put under a microscope and finely tuned with a single aim in mind: creating the top compact in the world, besting not only small-car rivals from Volkswagen and Toyota, but also Ford's fresh compact of the era, the Pinto.