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Her car had auto, AC, power windows/locks/seat, cruise, remote mirrors, plush interior, console, cassette stereo, more gauges, vanity mirrors and map light, chrome grille slats, wheels, etc.
I recall there were Daewoo Lanos where you could get leather, sunroof, wheels, etc.
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$7038: base price of CS 4-door sedan
$370 destination
$560 2.8 V6 (although in retrospect I don't know if you could get this in a sedan back then)
$645 Air conditioning
$425 3-speed automatic
$21 optional axle ratio (doesn't say what it is though)
$26 heavy duty battery
$56 bumper guards
$275 CL equipment package (includes Quiet Sound Group, custom interior, split folding rear seatback (but only in hatchback or wagon), leather wrapped steering wheel (convertible and notchback...which I'm presuming they mean just the notchback coupe and not the 4-door sedan?)
$130 Rear defogger
$180 Power locks
$69 Gauge package (yes, they finally started saying "Gauges" and not "gages". I'd presume the gauge for the alternator didn't say "Gen" anymore, either )
$99 Tinted glass
$25 Halogen headlights
$40 Heavy duty radiator
$494 AM/FM stereo ETR w/ cassette, seek & scan, clock, graphic equalizer, premium speakers
$40 power trunk release
$225 Power 6-way driver's seat
$175 Cruise control (they called it "speed control", but old habits die hard for me)
$215 Power steering
$115 Tilt wheel
$26 heavy duty suspension
$270 Power windows
$50 Intermittent wipers.
That was pretty much everything they offered, except for the F-41 suspension, which was $49, or a sunroof, that was $310. I probably didn't know what an F-41 was, when I spec'ed this car out decades ago. There were a few other options, but they tended to be specific to the wagon, or convertible, or were a different radio option or something.
Another thing that I just noticed...nowhere in the price listing does it make any mention of a Z-24, not as a separate model, or an option package. But, they show two pictures of a Z-24 hatchback.
Anyway, the way I spec'ed the car, I come out to $11,569 with a V6, $11,009 without. It almost doesn't seem possible, to add another ~$2500 to a Cavalier that already had automatic and a/c, but it's not hard to pile it on!
I doubt too many of them were that loaded up back in the day, although I do remember an acquaintance who had an '86 with the CL package, and it was pretty nice.
Yeah, 'notchback' then in Chevyland described only the coupe as opposed to the hatchback.
A lot of bling on a car of questionable quality.
I know they were built in NE OH, but here in crusty, rusty NE OH, I saw many Cavaliers of this general vintage being used for decades. This might have been the ol' 'perception versus reality' thing.
Tailpipe hangs a little low underneath but otherwise, looks great. I
suspect these cover several years and are hard to tell apart.
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I had a '97 sedan that I drove for 129.6K miles with nothing but maintenance, and an '02 coupe I drove for 112K. I got rid of it mostly because I wanted a new car, but also the check engine light never came on so it wouldn't pass emissions check in my county. A $500 repair. Both my Cavaliers were 5-speeds.
The sedan looked like an egg I always thought, but I think the coupe looked not-cheap for a cheap car. To my subjective eyes it looked nicer than the Escort in that price range.
Mine resembled the above but was the one-year 2002 really deep dark green, and mine had the silver aluminum wheels (not polished) and a very small, subtle spoiler on the decklid. It looked new after six OH winters sitting outside all the time.
Those wheels on the red car I believe are the Z24 wheels even though I don't believe that car is a Z24.
I have a grumpy older bachelor friend who refused to ride with me to a swap meet in PA in the back seat of my car due to "no leg room". He was fine riding so in my friend's Lexus SC380. I pointed out the dimensions that showed the Cavalier had virtually the same rear seat legroom (perhaps even a little more). He didn't care. His mind was made up already, LOL. He's one of those guys who calls and asks if you want to go somewhere, then says "Can you drive?", LOL.
I bought a new '85 Celebrity Eurosport coupe, pretty loaded (AC, PW, buckets, console, cruise, 4-speed automatic, 2.8MFIV6, aluminum wheels that were a copy of the Citation X-11 wheels, Goodyear Eagle tires) and my sticker was mid-12's. Only car I ever ordered.
Although it was a box like all Celebritys, I always liked that I got that dark plum color but NOT with the silver two-tone on the lower body. The interior was the same color, in cloth. It looked nice I thought.
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I know they had to differentiate the Pontiac from the Chevy, but I like the teardrop quarter windows on the Chevy which they cut off at the back on the Pontiac.
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Was $8650 before TTL. Wonder how much it sold for, when new?
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I knew two families in the early 90's who had, I think, gen-2 variants of the Cavalier. One had a Pontiac and the other was an Oldsmobile. The cars looked nearly identical to one another other than a few minor details, and both seemed to just have one annoying problem after another. Generally not major things, but they always seemed to have a gripe.
The Pontiac's owner was the mother of my best friend, and, once we were of driving age, I remember one night when we were in Walla Walla (about a half-hour drive away) and the water pump failed. His mom was not happy about that at all (she was sure we were up to mischief with her car!), and I'm not sure that my suggestions about us actually doing her a favor since she wasn't the one stranded with it won me any points.
Has a flat plane crank.
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My last rental car I had when I was with IBM was also a Cavalier - around 2003, IIRC. Flew to Seattle to teach a class in Bellingham. The Cavalier was a nice car, but I was a little cramped inside of it. I remember going up I-5, a little over the speed limit, when I encountered an overpass with a state trooper parked in the middle of it, pointing a radar gun at our lanes. Not sure I scrubbed off enough speed, but managed to not get pulled over.
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Picked a blue one for Fintail.
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I'll admit, slight guilty pleasure, especially an earlier one on these wheels (wheels changed maybe with the 1991 facelift?):
I did like when the Cavalier coupe got that slight fastback roofline with the big backlight that made me think "'61 Impala bubbletop". But as the years wore on, they tacked more "rubber baby buggy bumper" trim on it, yuck. I know that was the style in general then.
I was a fan of the Cavalier wagon, lots of utility for comparatively low price out there in my memory. I tried to talk my wife into a new 5-speed '90 Cavalier wagon but at age 25 she didn't want a wagon at any price and chose the Corsica, which was similar in price as I recall.
This was a car that Ford didn't market anything against, at least in my memory. I distinctly remember that at some point, the Corsica/Beretta were the best-selling car in America (considered the same line of cars apparently). EDIT: I guess the Tempo/Topaz coupes were in this class, but I'll leave my snarky styling opinions out here.
The car in the pic is a 2.8MFIV6 with 5-speed. Mine was an automatic.
After that, his parents let him use a late 80's Tercel 4-door hatchback. Ironically, it succumbed to engine sludge, years before "sludge" became such a household word! I forget how long that one lasted him, but it was less than a year. I didn't see him for awhile, but then in '95 I saw him with a brand-new red and silver Trans Am!
Oh, as for the '67 Pontiac 2+2, yeah, I'm usually not going to complain about the style of a '67 Pontiac Although, I will say, I think those vents on the fender would have looked better if they were mounted lower, underneath the horizontal chrome strip. But it's a gorgeous enough car I'll excuse that little faux pas
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As for sales, my old car book lists them as separate entries, but in 1988, they sold 291,163 Corsicas and 275,098 Berettas. My book also lists 8973 Corsicas and 8072 Berettas for 1987.
For comparison, the Taurus sold about 378,000 units. The Tempo also did quite well in 1988, the first year of that refresh, with about 476,000 sold. For comparison, the Tempo only sold about 282,000 in 1987. The '88 Cavalier did around 330,000 units.
So, if you combine Corsica and Beretta figures for '88, that's about 566K. So, for 1988 at least, it could very well have been #1. I can't think of anything else from the competition in '88 that would have done that well...nothing classified as a car, at least. And while the Japanese were making some serious inroads, they weren't quite THAT high yet. The Accord sold 362,663 in 1988 while the Civic was at 225,543, according to Wikipedia. In those days the Accord was almost untouchable among imports, so I doubt the Camry or Corolla were anywhere near it in sales.
Invariably, when I see a car along the road with a broken ball joint and the wheel broken off, it's an older Accord.
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Love the color and wheels on the Beretta above.
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My lust for that 2+2 just keeps going up!