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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2018, 08:48:04 PM »
I’m pretty sure I own the shittiest car of all time.

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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2018, 08:48:17 PM »
Loved those Gremlins and Pintos. I worked flat rate in the 70's , lot's of work on those, easy to beat the rate.

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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2018, 08:59:48 PM »
I actually like quite a few cars on this list.

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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2018, 09:06:02 PM »
I’m pretty sure I own the shittiest car of all time.

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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2018, 09:31:14 PM »
I had a 76 pinto. other than the catching on fire thing it was pretty tough. The only trouble I had was timing belt crapped out but it could have been my fault. Who knew they were supposed to be changed out ???


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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2018, 12:43:17 PM »
I see a lot of lists like this on the net, usually from some self styled automotive writer that has near zero experience with any of the vehicles he condemns.   Went through most of the list, King Midget?   Quit building these glorified golf carts 50 years ago, when emissions and safety caught up with them.  More of a toy than a real car.  Chrysler K cars?  How were they worse than the Chevy Citation/and other early front wheel drives.  Was the Ford Escort in there?  Get it hot once and the head gasket would blow.  Chevette, and I drove some new,  was way better car than the Vega, plus they gave terrific gas mileage, 40mpg on several trips I took.   Rode along with the owner of a Diesel Chevette, 45 MPG across the Missouri hills.   Corvair, guess he didn't realize the Corvair had a safe patented fuel tank,  decent cars if properly maintained.  Couldn't finish the list, didn't see the point.   Probably a wannabe CarandDriver magazine writer that once confessed since they lived in NewYork City, none of them owned any cars!   Just a wannabe expert.   

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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2018, 01:22:01 PM »
I see a lot of lists like this on the net, usually from some self styled automotive writer that has near zero experience with any of the vehicles he condemns.   Went through most of the list, King Midget?   Quit building these glorified golf carts 50 years ago, when emissions and safety caught up with them.  More of a toy than a real car.  Chrysler K cars?  How were they worse than the Chevy Citation/and other early front wheel drives.  Was the Ford Escort in there?  Get it hot once and the head gasket would blow.  Chevette, and I drove some new,  was way better car than the Vega, plus they gave terrific gas mileage, 40mpg on several trips I took.   Rode along with the owner of a Diesel Chevette, 45 MPG across the Missouri hills.   Corvair, guess he didn't realize the Corvair had a safe patented fuel tank,  decent cars if properly maintained.  Couldn't finish the list, didn't see the point.   Probably a wannabe CarandDriver magazine writer that once confessed since they lived in NewYork City, none of them owned any cars!   Just a wannabe expert.

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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2018, 04:58:06 PM »
John K, I don't put much stock in these lists either.  Usually they're click bait and make you go to another page to see each car.  Since this one was all one page, I scrolled through it.
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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2018, 05:55:33 PM »
A lot of it I think depends on how you define things like worst. An eight wheeled vehicle that had a production of one single vehicle may be a failure in terms of sales but how did it perform?

My brother had a Fiat that was one long and expensive repair. He either couldn't drive it because something broke or drove it with something needing to be fixed. Not sure if that was just an example of a bad build on one vehicle or representative of the brand. Either way that car would be on my list 25.

And we haven't even started talking about Renault.
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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2018, 08:31:59 PM »
Renault's?  :-\    Fiats were designed for a country just a bit bigger then Arizona.

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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2018, 09:12:26 PM »
No one could ever agree on which 25 cars should be on the list.
I will always remember when my dad's cousin who was a Cadillac salesman stopped by the house with the brand new Cimarron. We were used to the whole family piling into the car along with his. We could barely squeeze 2 of us in the back seat that had no leg room with a tall driver.

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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2018, 09:28:07 PM »
No mention of Simca?  Dad had one in the early 60s. Ran good until it would just die. Then dad would have to hop out and put the carb back in place.
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Re: 25 Worst Cars of all Time
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2018, 09:49:43 PM »
Renault's?  :-\    Fiats were designed for a country just a bit bigger then Arizona.

I may be the only person to get good use out of a K car. I had a reliant wagon that hit 300k with one clutch replacement and a few belts.

One of my wifes friends had a K car convertible that she drove for years and years with who knows how miles on it. The top was more memory than fabric and the interior not much better but it still ran when she got rid if it.

The Renaults were not great cars by any definition but I'd still love to have a 4CV.
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