50 Worst Cars of all time

[kamilyun]

A humorous read...slightly long, though:

50 worst cars of all time


Edit:  A sample

1982 Camaro Iron Duke



There was a time when 90 horsepower was a lot, and that time was 1932. Fifty years later, it was bupkis, especially under the hood of Chevy's beloved Mustang-fighter, the Camaro. As the base engine for the redesigned 1982 Camaro (and Pontiac Firebird), the 2.5-liter, four-cylinder "Iron Duke" was the smallest, least powerful, most un-Camaro-like engine that could be and, like the California Corvette, it was connected to a low-tech three-speed slushbox. So equipped, the Iron Duke Camaro had 0-60 mph acceleration of around 20 seconds, which left Camaro owners to drum their fingers while school buses rocketed past in a blur of yellow.

[Russian]

No LADA? Pfff.....that list is soo off.

[vorticon]

could that list be any more obviously biased?

[ROC]

he consequences of putting every living soul on gas-powered wheels are piling up, from the air over our cities to the sand under our soldiers' boots. And by the way, with its blacksmithed body panels and crude instruments, the Model T was a piece of junk, the Yugo of its day.

Could have been interesting, but I got to the 2nd car and this line and flushed.

Easy for some half wit no body to say, sitting behind a keyboard, enjoying the fruits of technology this Model T spurred on.  I dare this author to even come close to trying to create something of this magnitude, in the time this was accomplished.  Heck, forget that, I dare him to create something as simple as this is Today.

Sorry, didn't find it funny, found it pointless.  Someone makes a living berating other peoples attempt at actually doing something with their talents.  I didn't want to read it long enough to risk remembering the authors name.

[rpm]

I see a few lemons missing from the list:

1982 Buick Skylark
1975 Chevy Vega
1980's Pontiac J cars
1974 Ford Mustang II

[nirvana]

I call BS, there is no Ford Contour on that list.

[Furball]

I cant comment on the American cars because i don't know anything about them.  BMW 7 Series, Jaguar XK-E and X-Type?

Yet not even a Skoda on there...

I don't like the list, but some of it is quite amusing.

[MoeRon]

I drove this beauty in '78 for a year , AMC Hornet.  What a dog.  Mine was Bananna Yellow.

[bj229r]

Why do Brits not make computers?.......








(Can't figger out how to make 'em leak oil:D )

[texasmom]

My car is on that list ~ only I think mine is a 2002, not 2000?  Maybe. I dunno. The excursion.  I love it though. I did like the old suburban better, but this one does just nice.

Wonder why it was on the list?  See below.  It's on the list because it's big? And if I buy the thing, who the heck cares if I drive it across country or to the mall?  I'm making the payments, it's entirely my business WHERE I drive it to.




GM had its H2. Ford had the Excursion, a Mount Rushmore-sized SUV based on the company's Super Duty truck platform. Dubbed the Ford "Valdez" by the Sierra Club, the Excursion was a passenger vehicle of gob-smacking proportions.

It weighed 7,000 lbs, measured almost 19 ft. long and stood 6.5 ft. tall. At the time, Ford argued that many of its customers — ranchers, farmers, um, tugboat enthusiasts — needed a vehicle this big with over 10,000-lb. towing capacity.

Maybe that was true, but that didn't keep Suzy Homemakers from driving them to the mall. To its dubious credit, the Excursion pioneered the use of the blocker bar, a kind of under-vehicle roll bar designed to keep the Excursion from rolling over anything unfortunate enough to be hit by it.

The Simpsons wrote the Excursion's cultural obituary in the episode where Marge buys the "Canyonero." "Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, smells like a steak and seats thirty-five...Canyoner-oooo!"

[lazs2]

No matter what the list... most of the cars will be from the mid seventies to the mid 80's...

The decade of "we must clean up the air to stop global cooling"    and "what can it hurt?"

The socialists made mandates that only electronic fuel injection and small computers could achieve.   Those were a decade away from being viable.  

the cars of that decade are the result of lefty nanny socialism triumphing over free market.

The result was cars that created more real pollution than they did before.  The mickey mouse and complex devices rarely worked and they mostly made the cars run so bad that they polluted more... and had to be replaced more often and got worse mileage....  lose lose.

lazs

[Flatbar]

Originally posted by bj229r
Why do Brits not make computers?.......








(Can't figger out how to make 'em leak oil:D )

That wasn't it!

The original prototypes had Lucas wiring, they never made it past boot up before the lab got smoked out.

[Masherbrum]

What cracks me up are the tree-huggers that wrote up the Explorer and even more so, the LM002.  

The LeeMoo2 by Lamborghini was ahead of it's time.    Take a Lamborghini Countach V-12 and throw it in a fully boxed frame SUV platform.    It did 0-60 in 8.5 seconds, and it weighed 5700 pounds.

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Flatbar
That wasn't it!

The original prototypes had Lucas wiring, they never made it past boot up before the lab got smoked out.

It was found that vehicles with the Lucas system can get a hotter spark if the wiring harness is on fire.

[Halo]

Nice to learn I've owned four of the brands although not quite the specific years.  

The Dauphine was good looking but the engine tired easily.  However, we had good service from our Corvair, Chevette, and Pinto (2).  

Some lists have included the Chevy Vega, but that also was good for us.

When you're young and squeezing nickels, you learn that sometimes the cheapest car is not the most inexpensive.