Comments by "serafina costa" (@serafinacosta7118) on "Crisis Coupe: The American Wartime Compact Light Car Projects" video.

  1. The name plate Kadet made to Europe and Brazil throughout the 80’s revived by Opel excellent small car engineering.
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  2.  @ricardokowalski1579 wrong. The Kadet was a German engineered sub compact. Opel made it. Then the Brazilian GM subsidiary brought along. The Chevette debuted as Chevette in the US and Brazil.
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  3. You mean there was. It is no more.
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  4. Interesting how you lay out the Chronology on Robert McNamara. He was also the advisor , as a Defense Secretary , during the JFK presidency , and advised Jack Kennedy against escalation in Indochina , then Vietnam. The fact he had prior military training validates even more his accomplishments as a civilian.
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  5. The Aero Willys. Jeeez. Thanks for mentioning. An upper middle class showboat for our Brazer standards. Upright , tall, lots of ground clearance , cushy , padded dashboard , shift lever in the steering column. If I recall , a straight flat six cylinder. Fog lights at the grill. And as an extra feature , besides the radio, Venetian blinds on the rear window. I stand to be corrected , but I guess Willys Overland ran an assembly plant in the then remote town of São Bernardo do Campo , off the highway that connected São Paulo to the port city of Santos , then a major overseas shipping hub, dating back to the heydays of coffe export boom. The Willys São Bernardo plant then cranked out the Aero, the CJ Jeep, the Rural , a two door four wheel drive SUV , and a charming and sturdy pickup truck based upon the Jeep platform. Ford Motors then ran a plant in the outskirts of São Paulo by the rail tracks , in a city neighborhood named Ipiranga. With less land footprint. When Ford took over Willys , then it moved entirely from São Paulo to São Bernardo , where it had a lot more space to expand. The Aero Willys could be as much as a boulevard ride , as it was suited to Brazilian precarious roads then, for its sturdiness. It sold quite well. Eventually the Ford brass opted to discontinue it , and replace with the Ford Galaxie and Landau Ltd 500.
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  6. Chevette was a Chevette from day one. It got phased out to give way to the Kadett.
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  7. Simca was a Chrysler nameplate. The Renault Dauphini , or Gordini, was a Ford nameplate which led to the Ford Corcel.
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  8. The badge and engineering was straight out imported from Germany’s Opel. There was no Brazilian Engineering to scale up then. Germany and the US held the keys. And then Korea’s Daewoo. And now , China’s SAIC.
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