I owned a 1984 Corolla in the early 2000's. Under the hood was a mass of vacuum lines, solenoids, pneumatic actuators. Ran perfectly well. I have this belief t

I owned a 1984 Corolla in the early 2000's. Under the hood was a mass of vacuum lines, solenoids, pneumatic actuators. Ran perfectly well. I have this belief that US auto company management thought they could use their political clout to get rid of the new emissions and safety rules and go back to the old cheap way of doing things. So some of the malaise era crap was a feature not a bug. The Japanese managers though had no such illusions and they were also engineers at heart. Vs US managers who were all MBA's and finance guys.