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Was this car in the tv series "heroes" (what the woman with split personalities drove in the 1st few episodes) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.80.110.196 ( talk • contribs). As of 22:53, 20 December 2006.
There should not be a "Trivia and popular culture" section. For the specific guidelines, please see WikiProject: Automobiles. Thank you! CZmarlin ( talk) 20:47, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Addendum: note that the "La Toura" in Futurama does NOT have a "wrap-around" rear window as did the AMC Pacer. Otherwise, it does look similar but not identical to the Pacer (at least, it looks very similar in the scene where you *cannot* see the rear window). Notice also differences (less obvious but notable differences) in the shape of the front end! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.42.225.118 ( talk) 18:14, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
This article needs a good clear photograph of a Pacer when new, not least because the car shown at present is incorrect in several respects. Can someone oblige? Writegeist ( talk) 01:47, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
My family owned a 1976 Pacer D/L with two-tone paint. I question the assertion in the article that two-tone wasn't available until 1977. Manway ( talk) 22:24, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Honesty please, Czmarlin. It is a fabrication to claim that Buckley states the car was the same length as a Ford Granada. He clearly states about the same length. As there's only about eight inches between them, he is correct. Kindly stop inserting your false statement into the text. (Assuming good faith and giving you the benefit of the doubt I put your error down to your difficulty with the nuances of what is obviously not your first language.) Also, false though your interpretation of Buckley is, it's your personal opinion at best, uncorroborated by any WP:RS. Personal opinions and falsehoods, whether deliberate or accidental, have no place in WP. Thank you. — Writegeist ( talk) 02:22, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
The movie Cars 2 labelled the Pacer a lemon. Did the car really have a reputation as a lemon? There's no indication of that in this page. Inkan1969 ( talk) 20:43, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Did the Pacer have a torque tube, or a normal U-jointed drive-shaft? Sca ( talk) 17:18, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
One note in the main article and also reports elsewhere point to steering problems in the AMC Pacer; as I own one, I can say for sure that as long as the wheels receive an adequate alignment, and the tire pressures are in the right range, the car not only gives no steering problems at all, but has an steering very precise and fun for the driver, even in narrow and winding roads.-- Jgrosay ( talk) 23:30, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
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There is nothing in this car that belongs to the Cab Forward concept. Perhaps someone got a bit over-excited somewhere at some time at so mixed their metaphors. Can we remove this error now, please.
Basically the layout is a truncated station waggon. We call that a hatch-back, now. Notice that the driver's seat position is in the middle of the wheelbase, as for most modern saloon cars. The entire car from the front bumper to just behind the front seats is a totally ordinary sub-compact layout (with funny shaped bonnet or hood). Its the rear seats that are over the rear axel, and so perhaps it would be more appropriate talk of a Cab Rear Concept instead of misappropriating the Cab Forward term which means something altogether different...
In a cab forward design the driver's seat would be over, or even in front, of the front axle and certainly not half way to the rear axle as is the case here...
-- Neil Dewhurst, Lyon, France. ( talk) 15:40, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
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Was this car in the tv series "heroes" (what the woman with split personalities drove in the 1st few episodes) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.80.110.196 ( talk • contribs). As of 22:53, 20 December 2006.
There should not be a "Trivia and popular culture" section. For the specific guidelines, please see WikiProject: Automobiles. Thank you! CZmarlin ( talk) 20:47, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Addendum: note that the "La Toura" in Futurama does NOT have a "wrap-around" rear window as did the AMC Pacer. Otherwise, it does look similar but not identical to the Pacer (at least, it looks very similar in the scene where you *cannot* see the rear window). Notice also differences (less obvious but notable differences) in the shape of the front end! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.42.225.118 ( talk) 18:14, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
This article needs a good clear photograph of a Pacer when new, not least because the car shown at present is incorrect in several respects. Can someone oblige? Writegeist ( talk) 01:47, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
My family owned a 1976 Pacer D/L with two-tone paint. I question the assertion in the article that two-tone wasn't available until 1977. Manway ( talk) 22:24, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Honesty please, Czmarlin. It is a fabrication to claim that Buckley states the car was the same length as a Ford Granada. He clearly states about the same length. As there's only about eight inches between them, he is correct. Kindly stop inserting your false statement into the text. (Assuming good faith and giving you the benefit of the doubt I put your error down to your difficulty with the nuances of what is obviously not your first language.) Also, false though your interpretation of Buckley is, it's your personal opinion at best, uncorroborated by any WP:RS. Personal opinions and falsehoods, whether deliberate or accidental, have no place in WP. Thank you. — Writegeist ( talk) 02:22, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
The movie Cars 2 labelled the Pacer a lemon. Did the car really have a reputation as a lemon? There's no indication of that in this page. Inkan1969 ( talk) 20:43, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Did the Pacer have a torque tube, or a normal U-jointed drive-shaft? Sca ( talk) 17:18, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
One note in the main article and also reports elsewhere point to steering problems in the AMC Pacer; as I own one, I can say for sure that as long as the wheels receive an adequate alignment, and the tire pressures are in the right range, the car not only gives no steering problems at all, but has an steering very precise and fun for the driver, even in narrow and winding roads.-- Jgrosay ( talk) 23:30, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
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There is nothing in this car that belongs to the Cab Forward concept. Perhaps someone got a bit over-excited somewhere at some time at so mixed their metaphors. Can we remove this error now, please.
Basically the layout is a truncated station waggon. We call that a hatch-back, now. Notice that the driver's seat position is in the middle of the wheelbase, as for most modern saloon cars. The entire car from the front bumper to just behind the front seats is a totally ordinary sub-compact layout (with funny shaped bonnet or hood). Its the rear seats that are over the rear axel, and so perhaps it would be more appropriate talk of a Cab Rear Concept instead of misappropriating the Cab Forward term which means something altogether different...
In a cab forward design the driver's seat would be over, or even in front, of the front axle and certainly not half way to the rear axle as is the case here...
-- Neil Dewhurst, Lyon, France. ( talk) 15:40, 2 September 2017 (UTC)