Car Brands Quiz #2

All true, but the Acura brand name was restricted to North America. In the rest of the world they were sold as Hondas.

Also in Australia in the 70s, Chrysler sold a Charger under the brand name Valiant. Was a 2 door "muscle" car competing against the Holden Monaro and Ford Falcon/Cobra

It was the 70s when the Japanese automakers invaded America with their tiny, affordable, fuel-efficient cars like the Honda Civic and Toyota Tercel. And the only POS's among them were the all unreliable, brokedown Ford Pintos and Escorts and Chevy Chevettes and Citations that the Japanese models had supplanted.

eh.. while it's true that American cars in the late 70s and early 80s were notoriously bad and Hondas, etc gained a reputation for being very reliable by comparison and this was among their selling points, I have a hard time looking at a first or second generation Honda Civic and calling it something other than a POS. It might have had a reliable engine but it was tiny and uncomfortable, the interior was made of cheap plastic, door handles would crack and break off in your hand, they were ugly as hell... there were issues other than engine reliability. The Japanese weren't running away from nothing when they created these other brands.

Not to mention that fuel economy came at the price of very low performance. But the decade was bad for cars in general, from any country.