The car without a back vs. the Barbeque for 4. Pinto was the better seller, but they kept building Gremlins or Gremlin-alikes until the mid 80s as Eagles and Sprits. Gremlin never made into Top Secret or a zillion other movies for exploding car jokes, although it would probably blow up just the same with the complete lack of a tail structure. The Gremlin was really a compact Hornet with its tail hacked off, but it was really short, and it rode and drove better than true subcompact designs -- because it was a hacked compact.
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