The 50 Worst Cars of All Time

[drunkkenartist]

Gotta love google! Found a pic of my first and most favorite car. I bought this used 74 Ford Pinto Station Wagon Sport, used for $800 in 1982. It had been garage kept and had low mileage. It lasted four drunkken years of college, telephone poles, the side of the garage, a tree or two and countless ditches. Nothing to be proud of, and am surprised I didn't kill anybody or myself. Young, dumb and drunk. Terrifying.

Though I loved that car, the thought of what could have been sends chills down my spine.

I would haul a carload to concerts up to Cleveland all the time. The "Journey-mobile". It had two swivel speakers in the back for tailgate partays! Great stereo system. I miss it actually. Shame I killed it.

 

[NoHall]

They left off two of my favorite awful vehicles, the Chevy LUV, which was an American truck with a bunch of Japanese parts, which were really hard to find, and the 70's-ish Mustang, which my brother says just about gelded the whole line of Mustangs:

 

[drunkkenartist]

How is this 1934 Chrysler much different from my 2006 Chrysler? Boy I can pick 'em can't I?

 

[seacrestkristi]

I could only find a model of mine on Google. Sweet

 

[drunkkenartist]

Glad we're both still here to talk about our 74 Pintos!

I saw one of these live and in carson at the First Friday Fest downtown Panama City. I loved it. Had a big crowd around it.

 

[seacrestkristi]

Is that a mercedes? Kinda favors a mexican taxi.

 

[drunkkenartist]

Its a 1956 Renault Dauphine.
"The most ineffective bit of French engineering since the Maginot Line, the Renault Dauphine was originally to be named the Corvette, tres ironie. It was, in fact, a rickety, paper-thin scandal of a car that, if you stood beside it, you could actually hear rusting. Its most salient feature was its slowness, a rate of acceleration you could measure with a calendar. It took the drivers at Road and Track 32 seconds to reach 60 mph, which would put the Dauphine at a severe disadvantage in any drag race involving farm equipment. The fact that the ultra-cheap, super-sketchy Dauphine sold over 2 million copies around the world is an index of how desperately people wanted cars. Any cars. "

I thought it was adorable. I don't think all the cars on this list were that bad. I think there are many that missed the list. I'm glad the DeLorean DMC is going to make a comeback. I loved it. I saw one in "carson" last year at a car show at Frank Brown Park. Cool car.

I'm a car "funatic".

 

[Bob]

They left off two of my favorite awful vehicles, the Chevy LUV, which was an American truck with a bunch of Japanese parts, which were really hard to find, and the 70's-ish Mustang, which my brother says just about gelded the whole line of Mustangs:

The Chevy LUV was a rebadged ISUZU. During the 80s, Chevrolet took the Nova name and slapped it on the Toyota Corolla. Just like today's Pontiac Vibe is really a rebadged Toyota Matrix.

 

[Bob]

As usual with GM, they finally got these right with lots of HP and a 5 sp manual (actually had a 4 speed until the last year of production) stiffened up the whole set up and quit making them

Same thing with the Cadillac Allante. Stiffened it up, dropped the 300+ HP Northstar engine in it and quit making them

I bet GM does the same with the Pontiac Solstice. What a lame name. Ford Probe.?? Acura Vigor??