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Originally Posted by nekkidhillbilly
yeah crazy thing is thats lighter than the equinox beside it lol.
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It seems that most models lost a lot of weight in the early 1970s (energy efficiency and general lack of need for so much weight), then lost shit tons more weight in the early 1980s (response to the gas crisis). A few kept losing weight into the mid-1990s. Then everything started getting much heavier in the late 1990s/early 2000s (marketing arms races for horsepower/luxury/size, and for trucks, towing capacity), a trend that I think only reversed in the last few years.
Specifically the LeSabre followed that pattern. Here's the curb weight for 1980 from my owners manual...