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Those issues buffed right out.Quote:
Originally Posted by wyeaster
Still not completely sold on those ugly-ass vehicles but good music in that video.Quote:
Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy
Cage the Elephant - In One Ear
Billie Joe Shaver - Fun while it lasted.
Good shit.
I suppose I technically still own my B210, although I haven't seen it since 1984, when I abandoned it in a farm field in MN, next to my dead '67 Cougar. I think the title is in the glove box, if anybody wants to go claim it.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
OK, what about worst car you ever owned?
For me it was 3 or 4 late 90's era Grand Cherokees. FIL was in the wholesale business, we'd get them dirt cheap since everyone knew they were piles of crap. We'd buy them at around 60k miles and dump them around 90k. So in that brief ownership window, we experienced complete AC failure, leaking gas tanks, seized center diffs, many electrical gremlins, failed starter motors, water pumps and crank arm sensors, and the constant feeling parts could fall off at any time.
I'll always have fondness for our early 80s B210. Nothing worst about a car a hot cheerleader is willing to have sex in. Hatchbacks rule. The car was pretty good too
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Originally Posted by mcski
our b210 wasn't even convertible
I research this stuff thoroughly and I don't buy worst carsQuote:
Originally Posted by Skistack
that's what I was thinking tooQuote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
and I thought we all consulted each other via the infinity of "what ___ for me", "school me on ___" threads for advice for big purchases anyway
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Originally Posted by wyeaster
But the legend will live in forever.Quote:
Originally Posted by alias_rice
A glorious silhouette, against a frozen moonlit night, of purely average Korean engineering, tomahawking towards its fate...
Reliant Robin? Never been in one but famously bad.
BMW X6 is a stupid car. Take a perfectly good X5, make it smaller for no fucking reason, and raise the price. Makes sense. That's the kind of shit American car companies were doing in the 80's.
BMW is done. It's all Audi these days.
Fuck yes. My first new car was a 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited with the 5.2L V8 and full-time 4wd. Just stupid for a teenaged me. And just a fucking stupid car as I found out. All these broke while under warranty and within the first 30k miles or so:Quote:
Originally Posted by Skistack
Head gasket
Air Conditioning
Fuel Pump
Water Pump
Seized transfer case
Stereo (which fucking thumped with those Infiniy woofer/speakers - when it worked)
I learned so much about how a car is built (or shouldn't be built) during this time before we made the dealer take it back. So much power but such a giant piece of steaming dog shit.
Second worst car, and trust me it's really close, was my Land Rover Discovery II. I never knew how a V8 could make such little power. Then I found out. 2 of the cylinders were doing jack shit. After fixing that the new head gasket went, because why shouldn't it? It literally dropped a large chunk of something metal from underneath as I was driving to trade it in. All this occurred in about a 6 month ownership period.
Seriously. Stupid fucking car and I say nearly exactly what you just said every time I see one. Female friend of ours says she's looking at one. I tell her, "so you want the 4 door version of the 2 door coupe that's been lifted like an X5 but all the useful bits of the X5 have been taken away? You really want a car that's no good at being a SUV and no good at being a car? Good luck with that".Quote:
Originally Posted by I've seen black diamonds!
I loved our X5s, at least how they drove, when they weren't giving us electronic nightmares, but these new crossover thingys are fucking stupid. Everyone's doing it too. Mercedes has a few in their lineup as well.
case in point ^^ research told me not to buy any of those^^ cars
Reliability wise I had to think back hard for the worst car but the hands down worst car I ever owned was a 73 VW Westphalia
Haha. My best, most adventure filled piece of shit that I loved dearly.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
I really liked driving the Westphalia especially after replacing the 1800 with a hi-perfomance 2180, it almost gave the Van adequate power but it would 500$ repair bill me to death on a regular monthly basis and that was back in 82 when 500$ was a lot mo money
Smartest thing i did was trade it ^^ in on a new 83 subaru 4x4 wagon which I owned 14 years good car ... lasted longer than my last marriage
Sadly, the slightly later version of that was my worst car ever, because it died shortly after I bought it. Because of, you guessed it, terminal rust.Quote:
Originally Posted by pisteoff
I know pio's answer: upside down Pilot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skistack
The 4x4 Tercel SR5 wagon was an amazing car in its prime. A buddy had one and that thing stuck to the road like glue AND you could drift it if you wanted, as it would stick right back to the road when you told it too. Great car for the back roads of VT for all four seasons. It was a road rally car. And definitely not an off-road vehicle. However, they were prone to rusting out. So their prime was short lived. I have no idea what the two wheel drive ones were like. I did however drive my mom's 85 Tercel hatchback and that was a great little go cart.
Beer on the screen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
I used to live below Cecil the pimp and his 3 GF's
buddy was black (a novelty in Vancover circa 1975) fro/fur coats/ floppy hats/ platform shoes, ... hit all the pimp cliches
Drove a red Cordoba with white corinthian leather interiour, which he would park behind my car when he came in all fucked up so I used to have to wake him up to move the cordoba car in the morning ... kinda scary
the car had what was advertied as a lean burn engine which didn't work so good back then
Did he blame the car?Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
I thought it was the all-season tires.
Well, really, it was the driver.
Good luck convincing him of that counselor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
they were oversiped
Pio doesn't strike me as a Sperry Top Sider guy anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by wyeaster
On topic:
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The rental counter gave us one of these way back when on a trip to 30a in Florida. What a God-awful piece of shit.
Less than 5k miles on the clock and the roof leaked and it's too embarrassing of a car to drive with the roof down. Plowed it into a sand dune leaving a beach party and red-lined it till all 35 fwd horses dug its way out. Made a horrible whirring noise from the power steering so loud you could hear it coming a town over - doubly worse after the sand dune.
Had the turning radius of the Titanic which is how it ended up nose-in to that pile of sand, shells, and seaweed. Piece of shit.
^^^^Not to be outdone, Toyota gave us this beauty:
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It ain't pretty, but it's still a Camry. Like the Crown Vic, it is almost antithetical to being the worst car ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by I've seen black diamonds!
Well now. I've owned an ugly ass Solara convert. and a 325Ic, each for 5+ years.
I'll take the Solara. And Laugh my ass off at how ugly it is. all the way to the bank.
So my 325ic was dying a slow death about 2004 and, at least here, solara converts were still pretty new,. Youu could not find them used, and new they were going for well over MSRP. So I thought WTF and bought this almost exact car, mine was burgundy. 2001 yr. Looked a good bit at 'stangs but damn, NO backseat in those. March 2010 the goddamn thing, on 285 west of roswell rd, heading east, starts shaking and wheezing and this awful metallic rending sound, just barely made it to the first gas station.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
It never rolled again. "Catastrophic engine failure" at 90k miles.
Heh, what a horrible place to break down - not crowded at all :rolleyes2 . Hope it wasn't anywhere near rush hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by MARSHALL TUCKER
I got one of these while renting at TPA:Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
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HOLY...what a PIECE.OF.SHIT. While driving the Florida highways (not even the interstate), I thought I was going to die. God forbid a tractor-trailer passed...white knuckle all the way!!!!
Take legendary Fiat engineering, couple it with Chrysler reliability, start with a sub-compact and bloat it into some kind of crossover...Quote:
Originally Posted by smartyiak
What could go wrong?
I’m not sure if this is the right place, but I am sure as shit that the worst drivers on the road right now are Dodge owners, bar none.
In my fair city we’ve developed a bit of a street racing/drifting/late-night-burnout-while-shooting-guns-problem. In the past two months over 300 cars have been impounded in connection with the same. The vast majority? Dodge Chargers and Challengers.
Anecdotally, if there’s gonna be a car I find about 2” from my rear bumper (and I generally haul ass, drive right, and keep it safe, along with almost everyone else around here), it’s a fucking Dodge who will, no doubt, end up in a guard rail 5 miles down the road.
Double points for making the same basic car as a modern cop car be your vehicle of choice to go full-blown douche.
That must all those guys I see on Washington blvd on my way to after mtn bike burgers. It’s crazy but I see a lot of cops out there so I can believe all the impounds on the racers.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
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This is as astute an observation as any I have heard in quite some time. That said, I still think the pre-2010 Ram 2500+, particularly in the color red, is the biggest douche-mobile out there.
Diesel? ^^