Popular Mechanics: Ten Cars That Gave GM A Bad Reputation [Carpocalypse Now]

[Andy]

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2008/12/CadillacCimarron.jpg" width="494" height="324" style="display:block;" /Although they're now building some serious hardware, the friendly futurists over at emPopular Mechanics/em have provided some historical insight with a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/reader_rides/4293188.html?page=1"a list of the ten autos/a responsible for thrusting GM into a href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/carpocalypse-now/"Carpocalypse/a leading role./p pBefore the company got in the business of making a href="http://jalopnik.com/5100251/gm-asks-faa-to-bar-public-tracking-of-leased-corporate-jet-still-asks-public-for-money"PR gaffes/a, GM was known for just making cars and trucks. We think emPop Mech/em was being charitable in only listing ten, including the crowd pleasing a href="http://jalopnik.com/5038134/1985-cadillac-cimarron"Cadillac Cimarron/a. GM, you've got a bad reputation. And it isn't just talk, talk, talk. [a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/reader_rides/4293188.html?page=1"Popular Mechanics/a]/ppa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/C0Kwfb_syoUcbx1jjHHOXbIrVy8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/C0Kwfb_syoUcbx1jjHHOXbIrVy8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=LYPC2aRt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=QeETCDWz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=Hl8qjS7W"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=Hl8qjS7W" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=F87BbR0T"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=F87BbR0T" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jalopnik/full/~4/ypLMhT5RrcA" height="1" width="1"/

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