It's a shame that Nader killed the Corvair. The problem was the early ones had a swing axle. Drivers who weren't used to handling the resulting tendency for the rear of the car trying to get to apex ahead of the nose were in for a painful surprise. Having owned a couple of Porsche 356's and a Mercedes 300S coupe, that had swing rear axles even though it was front engined, I found them to be great driving cars. GM later went to non swingers but by that time the vairs carried a stigma. More the pity because it could have evolved in to the poor man's Porsche.
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