Fairmont Archives - Indie Auto

1980 Ford Fairmont emphasized cheap practicality to compete with GM’s X-cars

December 9, 2025 Steve 12

(EXPANDED FROM 10/4/2023) The Ford Fairmont had sold well in its first two years but in 1980 was confronted by formidable new competition — Chevrolet’s Citation. If this were still the good old days we […]

Compact cars became the neglected stepchildren of U.S. automakers

June 26, 2024 Steve 19

(EXPANDED FROM 6/17/2022) Compact cars represented a dramatic change for U.S. automakers when they were introduced in the early-1960s. After spending the previous decade making its “standard-sized” cars bigger, glitzier and more powerful, Detroit responded […]