Hello everyone, new to this forum recently. I got this chrome model with detachable speakers of the 80s: TTS 7040L. Do you have information about this model that has been manufactured for the French market. Is it a Korean sub brand? thank you for your comeback Bye
This lovely tree-piece was manufactured by Daewoo and it is indeed Korean. The Daytron RCS-7020 (Daytron being a Daewoo associate) is a known model. I own an aka, the Clever RCS-7020, and there exist other rebrands, for instance the Magnasonic CPS 907 and the Grundig PC-5022. Over the years I have seen it also in red, which is probably the most beautiful version around.
That looks like a nice little box, I don't think we had any of those brands over here although I did sell Daewoo Forklifts when I was fresh out of college, I wonder if they are the same company.
Daewoo were the Korean equivalent to Mitsubishi or Hitachi, making all sorts of engineering related products. Hitachi excavators are fairly common here and I have seen Mitsubishi forklifts. Aparently, having got up to 275 subsiduaries including a Daewoo football team, they found they had more debt than they could cope with during the Asian financial crisis and went bankrupt. For a while Daewoo were selling cars here but on bankruptcy that division got sold to GM who for some reason badged the cars Chevrolet. I'm sure Don Mclean wasn't thinking of one of these when he drove his Chevy to the levee. https://www.google.com/search?clien......1.......3..0j41j46j46i131j0i10.Vm8RT4al_d8
Not John Denver, Don McLean. And remember Geo? Those were just Suzukis that GM agreed to sell so they could meet upcoming CAFE requirements. That, and realize a practical, mass-produced version of their 100mpg Project Saturn concept. I still think they should've just put the Camaro V-6/5-speed in the Chevette, like they easily did in-factory using 90-95% off-the-shelf parts, and dropped the 3rd-gen F-body since the V-6 Chevette out-performed all trim-levels of the Camaro in all respects... including acceleration and fuel-efficiency! Then kept it going through the late-80s, when they could install the Quad-4 to build an American version of the 200HP Lotus-powered Vauxhall HS/HSE 2300 Chevette... like they originally planned to do with the Quad-4! Sorry... I'm a car guy first, and seeing how my first car could've been better--and was elsewhere in the world--but wasn't for ridiculous reasons gets me revved-up!
That little Geo two door hatchback was pretty nice but they didn't last long at all with all the salt in the Midwest.
You are right about Don McLean. As for the cars it is interesting how different names get used for different markets. We had both Suzuki and Vauxhall selling the same car with different names (Wagon R / Agila). As for the Chevette I guess you are taking about the same one that was sold here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Chevette I would guess that most of the ones sold here were 1.3 litre.
The European Version has those huge headlights that were popular for a month or so, ours were a little more refined but it was still a small car that starting rusting on contact with moisture.
The closest we ever got to the HS/HSE 2300 was the Chevette S... "S" meaning "sport", but all it really was is an appearance package. The only "up-side": At least they built some in Blk/Red, like my brother's coupe was.
I had a few Vega's growing up, a much nicer car and kind of cool looking. We never had the warping head issue but it was another car that disintegrated with water.
In my later years of high-school, I met a man who worked for Fisher Body. Said the Vega floor-pans disintegrated after 10-days in the rain booth.
Midwest is a perfect testing ground for wet'n'salty: you just look at at the 5-10yrs old cars parked on the street and you know what to buy! Thats how we ended at Saab dealership in Chicago... It was comforting to know that Bentleys and Astons have a dozen layers of hand-rubbed lacquer, but I did not see those parked on the street, so there was no proof that it actually worked
The younger set were never exposed to cars starting to rust within three years (and really badly) or all of the rattling when the inside fixtures started getting loose.
If you mean the Vega, and by the classic under-dash system, I'll take your word for it... because I've seen Chevettes loaded with options in the day, including automatic transmission and factory air-conditioning.
I think most of the Citations had V6's, the X11 may have had a higher HP which wasn't much. Those Citations used to be everywhere but they were sure ugly, you'll never hear about the famous 80's US Car Designers because there weren't any.
There were a few good US designs in the 80s. IROC-Z, Thunderbird SC, Fiero GT, the GM G-body coupes, Grand Prix ASC But yeah the list is few and far between. Actually the 70s designs were much worse than the 80s IMHO.
I had an 86 Firebird, loved it and the T-tops but the IROC was really nice, I also had an 88 Thunderbird Turbocoupe. Great car with a lot of electronic options that were pretty new and cool at the time. My buddy had the base Fiero, that was a fun car but needed a little more love in the design, it was just too plain, the GT fixed a lot of that, he also had the GP ASC, that was a cool car with a ton of those little buttons and switches and that green lighted interior. You picked the good ones Reli, my friends and I had most of them. I heard Muhammad Ali bought the rights to the Fiero in the 80s, he was going to update it. I guess the plastic panels would have been easy to modify to make the car look better.
The Fiero actually used Chevette suspension all the way up till the last year when they finally gave it a proper suspension. What's funny is a lot of kit-car builders used the Fiero chassis as the basis for imitation Ferraris and other things.
