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How GM Sold Saddam Hussein Thousands of Defective Chevy Malibus

Years before the first Gulf War, GM accidentally found a great way to mess with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein: by selling him a bunch of defective 1981 Chevy Malibus.

It shipped 13,000 custom-built Malibus to Iraq … only for Saddam’s regime to cancel the rest of the order because the cars immediately broke down.
Watch the full tale of Chevy’s cursed “Iraqi Taxi" here: youtube.com/watch?v=KShuhO1tSzI
 

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added on 15 May 2024

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