Everyone expected Detroit to break into the playoffs in 1982-83, a season after finishing one spot out the year before. Instead, the Pistons took a small step back, winning just 37 games.

The smallest and one of the most basic cars ever to be marketed by chevrolet, the 39-mpg chevette carries potential for the enthusiast. By Jim McCraw The new Ch ...

General Motors developed the American-market Chevette in the immediate wake of the 1973 oil crisis, based on the "world car" rear-wheel-drive T-body design, ...

The Chevette's demise and now infamous reputation came from Chevy's inability to change the car in any meaningful way. Chevrolet made the car from 1975 to 1987 and changed very little.

The Chevrolet Chevette was a rear-wheel-drive subcompact, based on the Opel/Isuzu-designed T platform, and it sold like crazy during the darkest days of the post-Iranian Revolution oil crisis.

The Chevette stayed in production all the way through 1987, making it by far the most obsolete new car Americans could buy that year (and I'm including the hilariously outdated Yugo GV when I say ...

This rare find on Bring a Trailer (which, like Car and Driver, is part of Hearst Autos) is a 1987 Pontiac T-1000. With just 68K miles on the odometer, it's a time capsule; it's of the right age to ...

The Chevette required 232 feet to stop from 70 mph, an unacceptably long distance. The Chevette's modest performance is offset to a great degree by its particularly well-laid-out driver's compartment.

The Chevette was a very earnest little car, but it was cramped, noisy, and underpowered even by the undemanding standards of the early 1980s. There wasn't much to go wrong with these cars, which ...

THERE are just 83 models of this classic motor on British roads and it still boasts “an outstanding finish” and distinctive yellow and black tartan interior. The Opel Kadett made a name for ...