GM’s factory skunkworks turned out this Chevy Vega with a well-engineered all-aluminum small-block in 1972. It didn’t make it ...

but Chevrolet was able to lower shipping costs by making it possible to ship 30 Vegas per rail car, in turn allowing the price of the Vega to remain as low as possible. Each rail car had 30 doors ...

General Motors was heavily invested in this project and directed $75 ... highlighted in 1971 with a Motor Trend Car of the ...

Chevrolet doesn’t make affordable sports cars anymore ... Cosworth to create a competition motor for the Vega, but bailed on that project and pivoted to a street car instead.

2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the Chevy Vega (and, incidentally, the AMC Gremlin and Ford Pinto). Unlike other American subcompacts of the day, the Vega was actually a pretty decent-looking ...