Talk:Economy car

message: This Article needs to be expanded quickly, so please expand the article so it can become complete.--Gumbos
superceded → superseded - Superceded is a valid British English spelling (without Webster's vandalism), not a 'typo'.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.1.10.200 (talk) 19:45, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

message: So this article needs more references? Yes it does. I did all of the ones that are in it. Why did you cut almost half of the references there were? American drivers are infamous in Europe for their lack of driving skill and vehicle knowledge. The US car industry and the products they get you to buy are a joke. 
Selling 70s US economy cars that rotted like crazy, blew up their engines and burnt customers to death because of a fixable design fault, that is summed up by - that were popular American-made economy cars that sold well in their domestic market.
That's - (cleanup, edit to reduce statements of opinion. Per WP policy: "Encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing fairly, and as far as possible without bias.") - BS  Patriotism is all very well, but the reality is that the US car industry is up $h1t creek because of the cars they have produced. Bowdlerising past history won't change that.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.119.112.102 (talk) 02:17, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  To CZmarlin. 

message: :::Please try to take a cooler, less argumentative tone. There's nothing to be gained by throwing around accusations that others are wrong. We're also not in a court of law, so an assertion that nothing I say holds up doesn't get us anywhere productive. Again: We are working together on a coöperative project, not against each other on a competitive one. The issue is not right vs. wrong, it's consensus vs. ownership. Your editing history and your talk page full of warnings and at least one block suggest that your efforts on Wikipedia will be more productive and durable when you take some time to understand the community expectations that you have repeatedly bumped into. 
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replies: text: Ok. I will use an easier tone and It's commendable your tone is pleasent, by the way. I do understand the image and editing policy better now than at first, and I just don't want my contributions based on my (failed) efforts and mistakes in regards to non-free images. Those mistakes..ex. re-uploading a deleted image cost me dearly afterwards as my crediability in regards to images was then questioned when I uploaded my older photos and my source was questioned, which I chose to show and prove valid. Yes I would like one non-free image. Also after my paragraph was deleted last night, I went back an wrote a revised one, Quadell's well written edit is a combined, condenced version of my two edits. I will start studing the general and editing policies Regards, (VegavairbobVegavairbob (talk) 01:52, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
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message: 1966 and 2007 Fiat 500. The new 500 is 50 cm (20 in) and more fuel efficient than the original.
Is it 20" wider, longer, taller?
Mtaylor848 (talk) 23:39, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fiat 500 

message: I corrected a widely made error in this article: Model B is NOT a V8 powered car but has an evolution of the Model A four. Beside the fact that it lacked V8 emblems, of course, it was similar to the V8 Model 18. In 1933, a successor, called the Model 40, was introduced. This car, too, was available with the Model B engine. As the V8 Ford was a huge success, the smaller engine was no longer needed and disappeared at the end of the model year. I didn't change the link to the article on the 1932 V8 Ford - which has itself the wrong title (that fact is noted correctly on the discussion page by someone else). My edit in the article is by no means thought as an act of vandalism, just as a correction of facts. --Chief tin cloud (talk) 13:29, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ford Model B 

message: Does anyone else see the Corvair as influencing the style of other cars such as the Hillman Imp, the NSU Prinz or the Soviet Zaporozhets? The IP editor's sole outside reference is http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/customs-classics/8400049/Five-rear-engined-classics, which is more of an opinion piece. He also claims that the WP articles support his claim. However:
* the Imp article only says the swing axle was copied (after extensive test of the Corvair by Hillman designers),
* the Prinz article only says the body closely resembled the Corvair (appearing to be spoken in the WP voice without a supporting reference)
* the Zaporozhets article only says it resembles the Corvair and Prinz (with a reference to a book in Russian that I can't check but doesn't actually say the design was actually taken from the Corvair).
To my mind, his claim of influence is not adequately supported by his sources.  Stepho  talk  23:34, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influenced by the Corvair 

message: Although comprehensive, this article is a poorly referenced mess, with unencyclopedic phrasing and structure. The intro reads like a personal essay, and the main article is mostly a long list of various car models, many of which cannot be considered economy cars by any definition. How did the BMW mini convertible get in there? I think it would make more sense to have a much shorter article. --Ef80 (talk) 16:05, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A bit late, but I concur. This should be titled "Every car smaller than a compact", not "Economy car". The Mercedes A-Class and BMW's Mini economy cars?? Seriously? Who did all this? —Cloverleaf II (talk) 16:36, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
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