One word: UNDERSTEER

Here's a question I've been wondering for a while- do the Pacer, Vega, and Pinto wagons of the 70s qualify as shooting brakes? As a Pacer wagon owner, being able to call it a shooting brake would add so much to the experience.

The goal of making the passenger door wider than the driver was to encourage back seat passengers to enter the car from the side facing the curb. It wasn't a terrible idea here in the U.S., but when they converted the car to right hand drive and left the doors as they were, it lead to a lot of head scratching in…

Yeah, I own a 79 wagon just like this one and my mother, who was a child of the eighties, refuses to ride in it because of the "loser" stigma that the Pacer had at that time.

I really like the look of these, it's disappointing to hear that they aren't much on performance. I'd still buy one, though.

You are right about rust, low quality plastics, and general lack of build quality, but when it debuted the Pacer was actually considered very good looking, if a little odd. It wasn't until the dawn of the 80s that the general consensus went from it being an attractive looking car to being "ugly".

My life has been changed forever. Now I know precisely what I'm going to build as a drag car when I get the money and find a neglected Pacer. BTW, if I were building one, I'd go for a hatchback because more of them were made and they weighed less. If I had $7500 it'd be on a transport headed here right now, on campus…

I have a weak spot for vans, so 70s vans, especially customized ones, are NP all day, every day in my book.

Apparently a brown AMC Pacer Wagon is the pinnacle of Jalopness. I think my car possibly just won the internet in that quiz.

I was so stoked when I saw the II. Unloved 70s compacts rule!

I was really hoping we were getting a free wheelin' Bronco, oh well...

I was really hopping that this was going to be about Japanese Microvans becoming a fad, because I could certainly get behind that. Especially if said Microvans were customized a bit like the old 70s "Shag Wagons".

I still hold firm to the belief that the original Deora was the best looking truck ever made.

I know how you feel. I've longed for one of these ever since I first laid eyes on one.

I know I'm probably the only one here, but I always liked ES300s. I was hoping that it would become an addition to our regular Jalopnik programming. As such, I was deeply saddened upon reading this story. If I had known beforehand, I would have considered buying it.

If they come out with a special edition Mustang called the "EcoBEAST SVO" a large part of my lifelong hopes and dreams will be fulfilled.

Squarebackamino FTW

You know, I always felt that the mid-80s to early-90s GM products were some of the biggest tragedies of the automotive world. Eurosport, GTU, Quad 442, Trofeo, Sunfire...I think if the General could have gotten their ducks in a row and built these cars right, they could have put a major hurt on Toyota and Honda and…

I have nothing against the bright red Mustangs of the world. I should have specified that maroon and maroon only looks absolutely putrid on a mustang. It makes the car look cheaper than it really is, and it seems to have been the most popular color on the 1999-2004 generation. I still see them on a near-daily basis,…

But this, this just puts both Mustangs and the color maroon to shame: