Feedman
08-20-2009, 09:37 AM
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/12/2009/08/500x_NPOCPPacerMain.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/08/NPOCPPacerMain.jpg) \Are you large and in-charge? Well, Nice Price or Crack Pipe (http://jalopnik.com/tag/nice-price-or-crack-pipe/) has a tubby two-door that will let you see and be seen. So get your bad portly self over here and take a look.
Given the similarity in era, two-door body styles, and use of steering wheels, it would not be out of place to see today's contender fare as well as yesterday's Mercedes 300CD (http://jalopnik.com/5340446/1978-mercedes-300cd-for-a-flexible+fueled-3900), which garnered a most excellent 88% Nice Price vote.
Then again, maybe not.
American Motors (http://jalopnik.com/tag/american-motors/), always seemingly barely hanging onto the narrow precipice of financial solvency, needed a product that differentiated it from the company's competitors. Instead of yet another new grill treatment on the evergreen Hornet, they decided to go for broke and develop- from the inside out- a radical new car that would provide positive buzz and generate sales.
The result was the fishbowl-shaped Pacer, which offered large car width with small car length, and a basket handle roofline that was eerily aped by the Porsche 928 two years later. The
Given the similarity in era, two-door body styles, and use of steering wheels, it would not be out of place to see today's contender fare as well as yesterday's Mercedes 300CD (http://jalopnik.com/5340446/1978-mercedes-300cd-for-a-flexible+fueled-3900), which garnered a most excellent 88% Nice Price vote.
Then again, maybe not.
American Motors (http://jalopnik.com/tag/american-motors/), always seemingly barely hanging onto the narrow precipice of financial solvency, needed a product that differentiated it from the company's competitors. Instead of yet another new grill treatment on the evergreen Hornet, they decided to go for broke and develop- from the inside out- a radical new car that would provide positive buzz and generate sales.
The result was the fishbowl-shaped Pacer, which offered large car width with small car length, and a basket handle roofline that was eerily aped by the Porsche 928 two years later. The