It's the serial killer gloves I like

Ahhh the 80s

the glove box is big enough for ALL your Def Leppard cassettes

@@MrTaxiRob Heck yeah, and my Autograph, Scorpions, and Joe Satriani. These new cars, though, were bought by Mom/Dad, who had Johnny Mathis, Elvis, and Kenny Rogers cassettes.

Like tewtally awesome, Mr. Davis!! This new Chevie is eck-sell-linnttt!!!

😂😄😂

With the Roomy Trunk to stash the corpse!

👋😂👉❤loved the comment!

Yeah, but he made a fatal mistake: he had a smoke on the way. They'll ID him from the cigarette butt, mark my word.

LOL 😂 can see that too.

We have to stan

@@dabnisbrickey6527 ok that helped for the cramps but what do I do about being built like a croissant

‘Small and confusing’ reporting in.

Cody Clark - best line I have read on KZfaq in some time. 👏

Me too brother :-)

Compare this to pontiac 6000 or buick lesabre which were both boxy

My parents bought a Corsica in 1987, one of the first. I still have it. Just turned over 100K milers. Runs and looks great.

@@beerybill Its got a lot of life left!

@@beerybill I find it so cool and rare that a compact sedan had the column shifter. I thought only full sized and mid sized ones had one!

My wife had one with the 3.1 V6. Considering the the times GM really had a winner.

@@audieconrad8995 Wow a V6 on a compact sedan! Sounds fast, they put those in the Buick Century in the early 2000s

Yea, i heard that lol

Late 80s quality

Kids today would be like the what when using what?

Not sure why this is interesting. Literally any modern vehicle made today has a smokers package available as an option.

@@haroldbeauchamp3770 Yes, as an *option.* Not standard, like it once was. Apparently my comment was interesting enough to catch your attention.

extend your arm. Extend your middle finger. Very good.

@@earnedmystripes2382 Nice beaver! Thanks, I just had it stuffed.😆😆😆

It's too bad that in today's cancelled culture, a movie like that would be banned because certain things might be offensive to some. These young liberal people are just too dam sensitive.

BEST use of this car!

@@earnedmystripes2382 "normally you wouldn't be doing 65 down the wrong way of a one way street"

In the Corsica's case, GM screwed up by keeping it on sale for a decade without a major redesign or update - save for a new dashboard in 1991.

@@liddlebopeep GM was struggling horribly then and the updated midlife Corsica launched in September 1990, eventually became a product of neglect, after GM chose to focus 100% on creating the next Corsica (aka Malibu) starting in 1991.

The Corsica was a very good looking car at its release, and its coupe sibling, the Beretta was a flat out amazing looking car. Well, for 2-3 years - the car generations moved very quickly back then, and styles were changing so fast nothing stayed in fashion for long. Just look at the Taurus. For as amazing and futuristic as it looked when it launched, by 88, it was looking old. Same here. By the time you hit 1990, the Corsair was looking dated, and it wasn't helped by Chevy just putting more crown molding and ground effects on it to keep it young, instead it just looked dumb. But I always considered the Lumina the replacement for this, but I guess the Lumina would have been a bigger car - and the Lumina is another example of Chevy makiung a great looking car (the early Lumina was very stylish at launch) then just tacking crap onto it until it looked dumb.

40 years later and things haven't changed for Chevy or Chrysler

Wow. Just wow.

Awesome G dad

I was wondering if anyone else remembered that!

​@@nickgee7291I remember that. I have seen the pictures. The only reason it wasn't sold in America was Pontiac already had the Grand Am. No need to have the cars overlap.

The Lumina was meant to be a sort of "70s car for the 90s", which would explain the early lack of airbags (and many other feature and styling choices of the time).

Its crazy to me that cars from my child hood had at most 2 airbags but most likely 0, and now my camry has like 14 of them.

There's a deeper history you aren't aware of. First off, don't take model years too literally. They are so all over the place compared to real dates, it gets confusing. GM had installed a driver's airbag in September 1990 on '91 Corsicas, but at the time, were already planning an updated, "softer" Lumina. The original Lumina was originally launched around March 1989, beginning production in January 1989. Development of the next Lumina also began immediately in 1989. GM intended for it to be redesigned by November 1992, as a 1993 model. That target was terribly unrealistic, but they thought they could achieve it updating the same platform. The design GM stylists developed in 1990 for that 1993 MY change, ended up as none other than the 1995 MY Lumina, which resulted from being delayed 18 months to early 1994 launch. Per GM engineering notes in 1990, the 1993 Lumina, was supposed to be the first Chevrolet equipped complete with dual airbags as standard equipment, by end of 1992. GM also began developing the "next" Corsica on 1991 ('97 Malibu), after the major redo for 1991MY. Planners decided to save any more changes for the next Corsica for 1997. In 1989-90, GM never had anticipated delaying the redesigned Lumina to 1995 Model Year, which happened as they were hemorrhaging money in the early 1990s. The '95 Lumina already had dual airbags when it finally arrived in the Spring of 1994, but by circumstance, the 1993 Camaro, first built in Nov 1992, ultimately beat the Lumina as the first Chevrolet to have dual airbags in January 1993. First GM overall was in 1991, with the SSEi Bonneville. After that, Cadillac & Camaro* in 1992 and other brands in 1993. GM was last to the party among the big 3 in this area, as they suffered the most in the 70s, with the airbag experiment and few fatalities. Ford was first in 1985, then Buick in 1987, and then Chrysler Co. across the board in 1988. A lot of GMs didn't have airbags at all until the mid-90s, whereas all Ford cars had them by 1993 and Chrysler in 1992.

@@themaritimegirl The Lumina was designed by GM from 1983 to 1985 and then released in March 1989 as a 1990 model. It definitely was dated in feel. In late 1988 right before release, GM management were already planning to fix the dated styling for the 1991 models AND develop a "new" generation Lumina for 1993. They opted not to install an airbag on the Lumina back then, when the planned '93 model would debut the passenger airbag for the Chevrolet brand. Thanks to a mess of proportions, '93 Lumina fell behind over 1 year and GM rushed it in early 1994 as a 1995 model. GM pretty much had forgotten about the first Lumina after 1990 and were wholly focused on developing the second generation model from about 1990 to 1993.

@@jmin8400 wasn't the 1st gen Lumina supposed to be released in 1984-85 ??

My mom had a red 4-door Citation from the mid-80's. Tan vinyl interior. It was a generic car if I ever saw one.

The Citation was a hot mess

Found it to be more of a replacement for the Celebrity.

Beretta was a good looking car.

It sure was!!!!!!!!!

My elderly neighbor across the street had a 1994 one of these with just 3,400 miles on it. He had a 94 s10 as his regular driver. He had a stroke in 2015 and moved to an assisted living place. I'm not sure what happened to him or the car after that as his house was sold

The Chrysler cloud cars are following the same path. Bad transmissions and bad rust just destroyed those cars. Also the Chevy lumina and jelly bean tauruses are all gone from the roads

A nice looking white Topaz stopped on the other side of a gas island from me last weekend so the guy who looked close to 100 could fill a few gas cans. First one I've seen in years and by far in the best shape. I wish modern cars still had those old style bumpers where they aren't attached to the fenders or quarter panels so a bump doesn't cause at least a grand worth of damage.

90 HP and a 3 speed automatic meant long stretches of WOT when traveling between DC and Morgantown

I saw a wrecked dodge neon recently with ugly chrome rims I was like good riddance

I reached 85 going down I-15 toward San Bernardino.

And Motorweek has been trying to promote them for decades. It almost seems like they're paid to advertise GM sometimes.

@@vacationcrazy1 I feel like they heavily praise the American ones

They cut motorweek a check

The big 3 US manufacturers are always restructuring and eliminating competition. It's past time to deregulate the auto industry

@@tingokuman I'm think AMC/Renault did too, Motorweek seemed to praise AMCs and especially Renaults back then. But, neither one is around anymore.

Where?

@@dave_riots in my neighborhood Don’t know about yours

Really? I rarely ever see them

They were probably bought and driven by elderly people for the life of the car.

Many of them at the junkyard have 300,000 to 400,000 miles on them. They ran like tanks

Hardly any if any in salt states, which could be said for other cars of the time period as well.

Obama took most of the old cars out in 2008

I bought a brand new z24 in 87 and had it for 25 years and finally sold to friends I’m kicking myself now for that. I miss it I was on its third motor tho

Chey Corsica is great, nice and durable car

yes.....yes it did

@RickReviews Rust claimed many

Auto?

I had a friend who owned a white one with the 3.1 V6 and it was surprisingly quick for the time. Or at least I thought so since I drove an anemic 1988 Pontiac Grand Am coupe with a 4-Tech (not Quad 4). The Delco radios back then sounded good, though, and people often asked me if I had "put a system" in it.

Canada

"While the only ones in the US" What does that mean? The rest of the sentence, "here in Canada the sedan was also sold as the Pontiac Tempest" makes sense.

@@mwilliamshs ah I should have proofread that comment hahah. "While it was the only version in the US" is what it should have said. And as well, we got both up here.

@@mattm7252 Bro man we all get it, it happens. It's just that when you're talking about something as iconic as a Chevrolet Corsica it helps to be a little more cognizant in a public comment arena. And Now to know there was a Pontiac version strictly for Canucks??? Yeah that boils my britches.

@@monkeywkeys3916 Yeah, weird, isn't it? Canada is a smaller car market but they got models of cars that were never sold in the U.S. like the Ford Motor Company built METEOR(sp?) brand. Look them up on Google Images.

They definitely are turbo happy now a days.

From a V6 no less

Pot heads really are a different breed. Not in a good way

@@kirbyswarp Sounds like you need to chill out for a minute and smoke weed for an hour

My first car was a 92 Tempest. 4 cylinder unfortunately!

My dad wanted the 4 cylinder because it was half the price of the 3.1 v6. They were sold out of 4 bangers when he went to buy it so he paid $16k for the v6 model in 1994. The engine was actually made wrong and had the engine replaced under warranty soon after purchasing it. This car seemed to have fell apart within 10 years. It developed a overheating problem around 2003 that no mechanic could figure out.

It’s rare but I think I’ve seen them more than crysler minivans of the year this video was made..

I actually saw a Beretta just yesterday (July 22, 2021). It was white and I think it was a GT model. It passed me going the opposite direction on a central Florida highway.

I still am driving my white 1993 3.1 V6 Corsica auto trans with 265,000 miles in Sep 2022. Replaced almost everything on it....lol But runs like a new car. Next year 30 years old!

The rear plugs are difficult .

I doubt he ever changed a spark plug in his life..

I remember seeing the Naked Gun and enjoyed that column shifter action! Haven’t seen the newer airbag corsicas with that shifter so maybe you are right. Too bad AutoBlog doesn’t go back to the 80’s. They list all options cars had from 2000’s+

Only the 87 and 88 Corsica had 13". 89 and on went to 14"

The driver on the Dodge Spirit R/T was ramming hard on the shifter.

🤣

...so they didn't learn...I had an '87 in 1996...worst car I ever owned...it always felt better then say a Taurus...but never felt like a car that I would brag about...or really go out of my way to even mention that I even owned one...had a 2.8L V6 and it developed the eventual 2.8L head gasket leak...drove it as it was, keeping a few 4L jugs of pre-mix in the trunk lol...one jug one way to and from work (30min of driving)...then I had got a great deal on a 1990 Suzuki Sidekick...and it is back in my hands (it was kept within the family) after all these years running like a top...

My dad wanted the 4 cylinder because it was half the price of the 3.1 v6. They were sold out of 4 bangers when he went to buy it so he paid $16k for the v6 model in 1994. The engine was actually made wrong and had the engine replaced under warranty soon after purchasing it. This car seemed to have fell apart within 10 years. It developed a overheating problem around 2003 that no mechanic could figure out. AC and heat both went out. I always remember the car being at the shop.

That’s a pretty low bar though.

AIN'T SAYIN' MUCH....

@@johnmaki3046 Why?

@@2011joser That being said, by 1984-5 the Citation was finally the car it should've been in 1979.

91 was the first year it had a driver airbag. Did it deploy?

@@dr.jillalicecooper2587 left that to Mr Holmes. 🤣🤣

Leave your kidney stones outta this.

@@pmafterdark I ain’t that old. 🤣🤣🤣

Me, too, dude. 24/7

Crack cocaine was a terrible thing.

I've never heard someone say "its stylish".

Once the check clears...

I will, my parents had 2, an '88 Corsica w/ 2.8 V6 that lasted 20 years and 248,000 miles....and a '96 Beretta w/ 3.1 V6 that lasted 14 years and 170,000 miles, they were both great cars!

Then you obviously have never been around very long. People love these cars. And for good reason. They put a new chevy malibu to shame.

@@Lrules364 I'm 51 AND from Detroit AND from a UAW family. Explain to us how it puts a newer car to shame...please!

That’s pretty much every car maker ever. But someone who paid a lot of money for an Accord or Camry would never say they got a lemon and just quietly got them fixed. Same reason why Subie owners think nothing of a head gasket at 80k… when these would have a head gasket finally go at 200k and go straight to the scrap yard with nothing else wrong with the car. Reliability is really only based on preventative maintenance. Preventative maintenance is based on what the car is worth. What the car is worth is based on how many are on the used market. If you maintain a GM like that accountant or teacher maintained their Honda or Toyota.. you have a cheap car that will last forever. But most of these wound up in the ghetto and maybe get an oil change once in a while. First $400 repair bill… scrap. But it sure is a testament to how well these cars were built if that was the case. You see a lot more Malibus, Grand Ams, and Aleros from the late 90s early 2000s than the best selling Camry. This era of car though was a bit too old. Drivetrain was solid, but interior fit and finish was horrible and the availability of cheap post 1995 GM cars that were far better designed meant even the poorest of the poor didn’t want these.

The Corsica L-body platform was shared with the Pontiac Grand Am, Oldsmobile Achieva, and Buick Skylark. The Corsica platform was never shared with the Corvette.

@@krushzone trying to be smart for your own good 😂😂😂 you didn’t listen at all to the review nor did you read my comment correctly because I never said corvettes and Corsica’s shared a platform 😂😂 … have great day krushzone👍🏽

@R Robert The Corsica/Beretta were the same size, same wheelbase, same weight, and cost within 10% of the N-body Buick Skylark. The L-bodies just had different body panels over the exact same hard points as the N-body. It was exactly the same platform in the exact same segment. Just a different name.

It was the only time a protective helmet was ever worn inside a Corsica.

This begs the question: How many have you seen lately? It's been 10+ years since I saw one on the road. I'd be curious.

@@ronhoover5516 Not very many actually .. sort of strange .. Every once in a great while I may see a Lumina

Did kept?

Those are excellent years, and I wasn't even alive yet

The 73-87 Chevy/Gmc trucks were basically the same aside from minor changes to the hood and grills/headlights..14 years

MW did too. Shows how little they know about cars. Don’t trust their reviews.

And then there was the joke of a car called the new Malibu with the tagline "The car you KNEW America could make!" in the commercials.

@JacobPaul-ix7oc Exactly and all the JD Power awards that soon followed. 😂

Yep! Right after the Corsica was: "OK OK don't worry, we totally got it this time: The Lumina!!" I haven't been able to take GM seriously ever since they triumphantly declared victory over the Camry with...the 1997 Malibu.

@ Adam Smith And…. You see a lot more 1997 Malibus around than 1997 Camrys. Combined with the Grand Ams and the Aleros it’s an absolute wash. And remember.. those Camrys were bought by teachers and accountants and lovingly maintained before they rusted to nothing on salt covered roads. While those Malibus were bought by hairdressers and waitresses and plant workers… or flogged wholesale to rental car fleets… parked outside, barely maintained, and then found their way to teenagers and welfare recipients and keep going even though they are a mere $400 repair bill from being pushed over a cliff and set on fire.

@@Bartonovich52 my last car was a 05 lacrosse that I owned from 122k to 225k miles and it had the following issues: -Bad catalytic converters -Bad pressure sensor in transmission -throttle body computer issue -Ignition lock recall (the one that killed at least 30 people) -Headlamp relay failed at night causing me to drive home with my highbeams on -Every wheel speed sensor failed -Every wheel bearing failed before 200k -Heatercore leaked -Door handle broke off -Transmission grenades at 170k and left me stranded 300 miles from home -plastic coolant elbow near water pump failed and left me stranded Now I have a 2000 avalon that I acquired at 190k and am still driving with 268k, in that time the following things have happend: -Door handle broke off -Alternator failed That's it! My family has alternated between the big three and other brands (we never once considered by any European POS) and the big three always made consistantly worse cars that broke down more often and had more issues.

@@Bartonovich52 Here in California those XV20 Camrys are everywhere, like it would be hard to not find one in any parking lot.

@@Bartonovich52 Late 90s Camrys are so common here on the west coast that they're effectively the standard "cheap car". They run and run and run and run and run, and then they run some more. Literally some of the most reliable cars ever made. I have not seen a late 90s Malibu any time recently either.

It’s a good thing absolutely nobody ever drove cars in real life the way they did on their test track.

It's quite a race to see which will give up the ghost first; the last of the Corsicas or the last of the Kmarts.

Me too friend . Had mine for 18 years and 210,000 miles .

Lol!!