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Originally Posted by cruzinbill
Driven no, rode in yes. I may be a lil off on the comparison but cmon ofcourse they have improved the corvette some since the corvair went away like 40 years ago.
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1st Gen or 2nd Gen?
The problem with the Corvair was the suspension geometry, since rear independent suspension at a time was a very new thing, Chevy simply didn't know how it would react in oversteer situations.
Simply you had a problem where the car would display snap oversteer when pushed to the limit, sort of like a certain model of the Toyata MR2 displayed (whole other reason on that car though)
So in the end, tons of 1 st Gen Corvairs were wrapped around trees, all over the country.
But they gladly fixed it with the 2nd Gen model with a whole new suspension geometry (new front sway bar and some other things if i'm correct), and the car is fairly important because it broke the mold for many future sport cars. (Independent suspension, back engine which influenced some mid engine sport car designs, Porsche stole a few things as well, well rumored too)
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Oh and there was also the fact that the tires would have different PSI ratings then most cars did, i believe the front tires had higher PSI then the back tires, so when gas stations attendants checked your tire pressure (Good ol' days!), they always put it to a certain PSI (35 to every car?) so it really fucked up the geometry since the PSI's were both the same when they weren't post to be.
That sounds about right.