There are some telling words at the end of this MotorWeek review of the 1984 Chevy Caprice. Those words point to a future where cars will have the same amount of interior room as a 1984 Caprice but they’ll be built smaller and whatever eventually replaces the Caprice won’t have the same classic feel. Welp….not really. As we all know, what replaced this version of the Caprice were the whale body GM B-body cars that ran into the middle 1990s and what’s doubly awesome is how the script for this review talks about the already long run (introduced in 1977) that this B-body architecture has been on to that point!
The car is good looking and they were selling so well that the company had brought the two door back, was offering a plethora or options, and had no reason to even think about making major changes to its big car lineup. Big enough for three guys to pile in the back seat with leg room, a trunk large enough for a guy to be casually drinking coffee in it, and a small block Chevy so laden with hoses and plumbing, the rest of the engine can barely be seen.
Oh, and it was glacially slow. 13.9-seconds to 60-mph and the quarter mile time was not listed but likely has to be multiple seconds slower than that. These are were not built to be snappy performers, but large and comfy cruisers that could move family and friends with a smile. And boy did they!
