Do Fieros really suck? Especially yellow ones.

minendo

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I was listening to the Bee Gees when a yellow fiero drove by. Hmmph!
 

cavemanmoron

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they had a bad reputation as fire prone,at least in my area..

i have seen a couple that were hot rodded,but mostly they were turned into ferrari clones, :(
 

thomsbrain

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those things are time bombs. driving one is russian roulette. just a matter of time before you look in your rear view mirror to see flames leaping from the rear hood.

what is up with GM and cars that catch on fire?
 

NutBucket

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Originally posted by: Brutuskend
The four bangers maybe. But I have heard the V-6 models are a LOT better.

A friend at work had a V6 one and he really liked it.
 

RyanM

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V6 Fieros are hot. V8 converted Fieros are better.

And V8 Fieros with the custom bodies are teh sexz0r.
 

Vette73

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The 84-86 Fieros were not that great. The 87 was not bad, most bugs were gone and the V6 GT with a 5 speed was pretty fast and could handle.
NOW the 88 Fiero is the top dog of all dogs. It was the last year, BUT it got a new Lotus suspision, a GM at the time owned them. And also redid the engine cradle a little bit. So not it handled a lot better.

The 4 Cyl's were ok (87-88) not very fast but great gas milage and still could handle well.

One of the biggest problems is a rear engone front Rad. car needs good maintaince, and a lot of people thought you could just beat the piss out of them and nothing would happen. So they got a bad name for over heating and blowing head gasket as people did not take care of them.

I would still love to have a 88 Fiero GT with 5 speed.