An Article From An Issue Of Popular Mechanics That Was Published And Circulated Some Time In 1987; About One Of General Motors’ Worst Platforms: The Front-Wheel-Drive A/W Platform.

The ancestral predecessors of the Front-Wheel-Drive A/W Platform, the A/G Platform that was produced from 1964-1987; and was of a Rear-Wheel-Drive, Frame On Body design, were much better than the Front-Wheel-Drive A/W Platform ever were. The A/G Platform had consisted of both quality and style, while the A/W Platform was about quantity, shoddiness, and a lack of style.

Starting in the 1980’s, and especially during the 1990’s and the 2000’s; American Automakers began to produce crappy Front-Wheel-Drive, Unibody Passenger Cars, Minivans, and Crossover Utility Vehicles (CUVs) that were about quantity, shoddiness, lack of emotion, lack of style, appeasing shareholders of the Automakers; and were often worse than the European and Japanese vehicles that they attempted to emulate.