automaker worked. franticly to make the car safer modifying the suspension and adding better drum brakes but it was too little too late. chris now says the corvair is fate was sealed in one nine hundred sixty five when consumer advocate and lawyer ralph nader published his book unsafe at any speed and it he called the core of their the most dangerous vehicle on the road home sales plummeted and in one nine hundred sixty nine production of the corvair ceased entirely christo thinks that s a real shame for him it s trend setting design and its status as the first turbo charged mass production model make the corvair monster spider a milestone and automotive history is that whole family s house by that definition . in one nine hundred sixty five the corvair range got a new body and the turbo charged engine was no longer offered quickly and quietly