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Dave.0 Helix & RMW PoweredLifetime Supporter
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ScottinBend Space CowboySupporting Member
I always liked the Fiero's. I remember those commercials where they took the baseball bat to them to show off the plastic body panels.
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Crashton Club Coordinator
Nice, I like your photo set. Very cool that you still have your Fiero 30 years on.
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Very cool. My dad has an 87 GT. We have a V8 that we plan on putting in.
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wmwny Well-Known Member
Great cars then...and today as well. I had an instructor last year at Mid Ohio who was driving a Fiero....
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I still have it. Took it for a drive up the Fraser Canyon in BC. Not as engaging a drive as my MINI, but more relaxing for a long highway cruise.
I don't remember if I mentioned a magazine article in Hagerty magazine earlier this year.
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Crashton Club Coordinator
Yes it is a shame GM let the buying public do the durability testing for them. By the time the Fiero was sorted out it had a bad reputation that sealed its fate. RIP Fiero. Beken you are one of the keepers of the lost mark. Long may she run.
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Both of my pre-teen boys went nuts every time they saw one back then. Too bad they're in that 'responsible' stage of life now and have to have 'practical' transportation.
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mrntd Well-Known MemberSupporting Member
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GM finally figured out that a Chevette front suspension and a X-body front suspension and drive train in the rear didn't work so well. They got it right in the end then killed it. The iron duke and the 2.8 V6 were not the right engines for it. If I remember right it was the Indy pace car, the actual one, that had the Olds Quad 4. That would have been the right engine for the Fiero.
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Goldsmithy MINI Alliance AmbassadorArticles Moderator Supporting Member
I owned one for a short while a few years ago. I forget what year but it was a GT with removable glass T-top. Someone offered me more money than I could pass up (considering I really didn't like the car).
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Skidmarks Active Member
I had an '84 GT, taught my wife to drive a manual with that car, replaced the clutch shortly after.
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I have a friend that had two of them. He told me he didn't learn what a piece of crap they were with the first one but he sure did with the second.
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Reminds when I was in college and there was fiero in the parking lot every day during warm months. License plate said "Fiearri" which made me laugh every time I passed it. I also understand that is technically the correct ending to ferrari but I still enjoyed it.
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Special heads and internals. I read it put out 232 HP somewhere but can't confirm that.
GM didn't have a transmission to mate with the Quad 4 that would fit in the Fiero. The aftermarket created an adapter to mate the quad 4 to the existing Fiero transmissions a few years later. -
Still, a good car (but not a great car) and a fine attempt by the "car people" in GM to do something different and possibly amazing under the noses of the GM bureaucracy. I'm keeping the car because it is a unique piece of American automotive history.