What do you think is or was the worst car ever made?

[JulesMaximus]

Pontiac Aztek.

Cavalier ranks up there among the worst also as does the latest Blazer.

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: Jokersmoker
ford pinto

Pintos had great engines.

Riced up PenTo3

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: akodi
Dodge Caravan 1986...why you may ask, cause I drive one.

I have an 89. It's the same body, suspension etc.
Difference? My engine is a 4cyl Mitsubishi turbo. Yours is either a 4 or 6cyl Chrylser POS.

 

[AAjax]

Originally posted by: bdjohnson
of all time: pinto (how many have you ever seen still running today?)
that my family has ever had: Chrysler minivan total POS

Hmm, Obviously you dont get to east LA much.

To be clear pinto's were ugly cars, and yes a couple blew up when rear ended (not a good thing) However they were reliable cars and many have run over 30 years without much trouble.

Worst car of all time, hardly. Chances of getting you laid in high school.... well in that context they might be the worst car of all time.

 

[mdcrab]

1962 AMC Rambler Classic

The left front headlight would break anytime you hit a bump.

But these were nice:

1960 Nash Metropolitan convertible

mdcrab

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Originally posted by: Black88GTA
AMC Pacer
AMC Gremlin
Chevy Vega
mid '80s Chevy Nova
Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz

Ugliest has to be the Citroen 2CV

as ugly as the 2CV was, it was an engineering masterpiece.

Super-complaint suspension, FWD (ahead of its time in terms of packaging), etc..

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: akodi
Dodge Caravan 1986...why you may ask, cause I drive one.

I have an 89. It's the same body, suspension etc.
Difference? My engine is a 4cyl Mitsubishi turbo. Yours is either a 4 or 6cyl Chrylser POS.

umm that 2.2L 4-cyl turbo is a Dodge unit..not a Mitsu.

It was also found in the LeBaron GTC, Daytona, etc..

geno can offer much more insight on those engines.

 

[dandruff]

Aztek ... no sense of proportion ...

 

[MovingTarget]

Well, I would not say chevy cavalier. The 3.1 6cyl was pretty kickarse. The 4bangers sucked though. No power to spare. But as per the worst car ever made, I would have to stick with the yugo, hands down.

 

[rickn]

Pontiac Fiero was another bad one. You were lucky if you didn't have an engire fire. Yugo's were cheap cars, good for about 80k miles. They weren't terribly bad for cheap transportation, and they got good gas mileage.

 

[malbojah]

Originally posted by: Compton
Ford Fiesta, I don't think I've seen one go more than 40 mph.

If you mean Festiva, then the one I use at work constantly goes up to 80mph

 

[skyking]

My sister's '72 vega takes the cake. less than a month old, she and my bro take their new cars on a trip to vegas loaded with family. Vega blows headgasket due to floating cylinder design, warped head.
7 adult and 3 children finish trip in '72 datsun 510, and pick up repaired vega on the way back.
One year later, she is in an intersection, and when she attempts to select a forward gear, the shifter comes completely loose < like, she could toss it in the back seat>, stranding her in nuetral.
That was just the beginning of the Vega curse

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler

Originally posted by: viking1966
amc pacer or the chrysler k car ..

Thou shalt not talk trash about AMC! I have to agree with the K car though. Plymouth Reliant is teh suxors. Also don't forget the Dodge Colt.

Ummm, don't know where you're getting the Colt info from but we had one that we bought used in 94 with under 20 on it for under $5000 and ran it up to around 140 I believe before we dumped it just this last year. I'd say that's a hell of a run for $5000. And the car wasn't that bad to drive either.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: trikster2

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
K-cars!

Disagree with the "aztek" votes. We test drove one (they gave us $50) and it was a nice ride. Everyone who voted aztek but has not test driven one should hang there head in shame for besmirching the good name of aztek. You can not judge a book by it's cover!

The hell we can't! I don't need to drive one to know that it is a POS. It is a Pontiac after all...nothing more needs to be said. And it's ugly! Just out of morbid curiousity, what are you comparing it to? A lawn tractor?

 

[edro]

Corvair

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: mdcrab
1962 AMC Rambler Classic

The left front headlight would break anytime you hit a bump.

But these were nice:

1960 Nash Metropolitan convertible

mdcrab

I owned both a 62 classic and a 62 American, and they were great cars.
I also owned a 60 Corvair and contrary to what Ralph Nader said, it was a good car too. Sure it had it's problems (The gas heater could kill you and the front end could get air-born if you went fast enough, or so "they" say, never happened to me though) all in all I like it very much however.

 

[FriedToast]

Originally posted by: malbojah

Originally posted by: Compton
Ford Fiesta, I don't think I've seen one go more than 40 mph.

If you mean Festiva, then the one I use at work constantly goes up to 80mph

If I 'member correctly, the Fiesta came first. I remember the boxy little things. Had a teacher in HS that weighed more than the Fiesta that he drove to school everyday. Quite the sight. Great guy, though.

Festiva was the newer edition, I think. Little more pointy noise if my brain serves me correctly.


Don't matter. Don't want one and never had one

 

[Thoreau]

Originally posted by: redly1
Cavalier 4cyl, no contest

Definitely agreed. Even the 2003 model (which I recently raced in my uber-seksi 03 SE-R, and won) is an ugly, low powered, cheesy interior, no headroom, ball-less piece of crap.

 

[moonshinemadness]

Yugo/lada

 

[Regs]

lol @ the yugo.

5o bhps @ 5500 RPM, and that's on the sporty yugo. That's just funny.

 

[Netopia]

YUGO.

Only car I know of which Consumer Reports did a review of and immediately suggest that the car be taken off the market!

Joe

 

[aircooled]

Ford Fairmont sucked

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
The russiaqn VAZ/Lada togther with the East German Wartburg together with Yugo.

Now that's what I call a lemon list.

 

[Metron]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Ford Fairmont sucked

I second that, my mom used to drive one... but what's really scary is that Ford used that chassis and assembly line to build the early 80's evolution of the Mustang.

My brother-in-law had a Vega in the mid 70's, I can remember attempting to adjust the door alignment... only to discover that GM had WELDED the hinges to the body (I guess they didn't intend for them to last that long).

More for the list of shame:

*edit* Trabant (cardboard car? ROFL)
Maverick (a 4 door Pinto)
Aspire (modern incarnation of the Festiva?... it even Aspires to be a better car)

Metron

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Metron

Originally posted by: aircooled
Ford Fairmont sucked

I second that, my mom used to drive one... but what's really scary is that Ford used that chassis and assembly line to build the early 80's evolution of the Mustang.

Metron

Actually, Ford still uses an evolved form of that chassis for the Mustang. It is much stiffer now but it is still the same platform. The 2005 Mustang will be the first all new Mustang chassis since the Fox chassis (which the Fairmont was built on).