What the F@#& was chevy thinking?
It's easy to bash new cars and how difficult they are to repair at home (my daily driver is a '68 for just that reason), but I seem to remember the late 60's-early'70's mustangs with the 428?, you had to pull the engine part of the way out to change the 2 back sparkplugs, same with the 401 AMX and javalins. And don't forget the stupid, plastic-covered timing gears Dodge put into EVERYTHINGin the 70's and 80's. But I do agree that the "at home maintenance" is quickly aproaching zero. When the Porsche Boxter first came out, you opened the hood, there was trunkspace, you opened the trunk, there was trunkspace with a dipstick coming through the floor - no engine to be found! The dealer told me that the owner couldn't do ANY maintenance because the body had to be lifted off to get to the engine. I don't know if he was BS-ing, but I bought an NSX instead.