Take an inside look at the development of the 1970 Chevy Vega

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Tom Joslin
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Although the small car trend was still fairly new in 1970 as Car and Track host Bud Lindemann explained, manufacturers had already had small cars on the drawing boards for a while by then.

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The show followed the development of the notoriously terrible 1970 Vega from the Detroit styling studio of General Motors to the Chevrolet assembly plant in Ohio.

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We don't envy anyone who had a part of the 240,000 test miles Chevrolet put on the Vega.