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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition , where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot . Today we're going to show that old GM cars don't always dissolve into reddish stains on the pavement, even in a damp climate like the Pacific Northwest. Zeet has photographed this pair of very solid-looking examples of The General's products for us;...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Today's car is a model that you'd expect to find on the island in large numbers, given the sheer quantities sold, but that's not the case. In fact, this is only the fifth Chevy Nova (we've had a '63 , a '70 , a '74 , and a '77 so far) in this series. Why so...
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Worlwide Cars News at Go-Cars.org (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
With just one Malaise Nova up until now in this series, it’s time to set our thermostats at 66 in winter/78 in summer, lower our expectations of future prosperity, and travel back to the Bicentennial Era… when presidents got impeached, wars got lost, and the base V8 in a new Chevy Nova was a 155-horse [...]
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
With just one Malaise Nova up until now in this series , it's time to set our thermostats at 66 in winter/78 in summer, lower our expectations of future prosperity, and travel back to the Bicentennial Era... when presidents got impeached, wars got lost, and the base V8 in a new Chevy Nova was a 155-horse 350. Actually, the Nova of this era wasn't a bad car; it was cheap and every component was made...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
1. Muscle cars Overrated: 1966 Ford Mustang Underrated: 1968 Chevrolet Nova SS Any engine smaller than a 396 V8 big block may as well have been made by the French. 2. Founding fathers Overrated: Samuel Adams Underrated: John Adams The recent HBO series sold...
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dustbury.com (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
As a followup to the question of "How much horsepower is too much?" I decided to sit down and determine just how much I've had over the years. Here are the numbers: Susannah (1966 Chevrolet Nova): 3.8L OHV inline-6, 140 hp Dymphna (1975 Toyota Celica): 2.2L SOHC inline-4, 96 hp Deirdre (1984 Mercury Cougar): 3.8L OHV V-6, 120 hp Molly (1993 Mazda 626): 2.0L DOHC inline-4, 118 hp Sandy (2000 Mazda...
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News from www.lacrossetribune.com (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
As a rookie city bus driver, Steve Knutson regularly would find himself drifting toward bus stops while behind the wheel of his silver 1978 Chevrolet Nova.
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
With all the talk about Detroit Malaise last week, it seemed like a good time to break out an example of one of The General's Malaise warriors, as captured in its natural habitat of an Alameda street. The Nova is a great example of the Malaise Effect; it started out as a small, barebones commuter car with a steel dashboard, went through a period of wild hot-roddedness in the late 60s, then bloated...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
Now don't go confusing this '85 Vauxhall Nova with the '85 Chevrolet Nova; even though both were sold by The General, one was a rebadged Opel Corsa and the other a rebadged Toyota Corolla. But more important than the distinction between different Novas is the fact that we have have stumbled upon The Worst Rap of All Time, with lines like "It's got a punch, honeybunch/So take it out to lunch!" Not...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 09/24/2007
Those of you who follow DOTS with any regularity have heard me bemoaning the lack of surviving 60s/70s Japanese vehicles still on the street; we see a disproportionate number of Detroit machines from that era here, due to the higher Perceived Coolness Quotient of those cars providing the motivation for owners to keep them alive. But the 1968-74 Nova , for the most part, has suffered the same fate...
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core77.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2007
A design-school lesson we'll never forget: Years ago GM exported their Chevrolet Nova to South America, doing virtually no market research and assuming the car would be as big a success on that continent as it was in North America. Unsurprisingly, the car failed to sell in Spanish-speaking countries. Why? Because in Spanish, "no va" means "it won't go." Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has done an interesting...
