The worst car

[BmillsSkier]

i thought it was totalled in the ice lake jump

Those issues buffed right out.

But the legend will live in forever.

A glorious silhouette, against a frozen moonlit night, of purely average Korean engineering, tomahawking towards its fate...

[I've seen black diamonds!]

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.

[iceman]

BMW is done. It's all Audi these days.

[BmillsSkier]

OK, what about worst car you ever owned?

For me it was 3 or 4 late 90's era Grand Cherokees.

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:

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.

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.

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".

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.

[XXX-er]

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

[wyeaster]

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.

[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

[Danno]

What.In.The.Fucking.Fuck?!

The 4wd Tercel wagon belongs in "the best ski car/wagon" thread, not the worst.

They were available with a manual transmission with a low range.

If ours didn't die of terminal rust, I'd still be driving it. Replaced it with an alltrac wagon, which also should be in a "best" list.

It died from terminal rust as well, so yeah, there's that, but still awesome reliable dirtbag skibum vehicles.

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.

[Danno]

OK, what about worst car you ever owned?

.

I know pio's answer: upside down Pilot.

[riser4]

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.

[reckless toboggan]

looks like that one has corinthian leather

Beer on the screen.

[XXX-er]

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

[Aldo]

[BmillsSkier]

I know pio's answer: upside down Pilot.

Did he blame the car?

I thought it was the all-season tires.

[Danno]

Well, really, it was the driver.

[BmillsSkier]

Well, really, it was the driver.

Good luck convincing him of that counselor.

[wyeaster]

they were oversiped

[BmillsSkier]

they were oversiped

Pio doesn't strike me as a Sperry Top Sider guy anyway.


On topic:



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.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

^^^^Not to be outdone, Toyota gave us this beauty:

[Sirshredalot]

^^^^Not to be outdone, Toyota gave us this beauty:

It ain't pretty, but it's still a Camry. Like the Crown Vic, it is almost antithetical to being the worst car ever.

[Marshall Tucker]

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.

[Marshall Tucker]

Pio doesn't strike me as a Sperry Top Sider guy anyway.


On topic:



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.

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.

It never rolled again. "Catastrophic engine failure" at 90k miles.

[Bobby Stainless]

sporty

[BmillsSkier]

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.

It never rolled again. "Catastrophic engine failure" at 90k miles.

Heh, what a horrible place to break down - not crowded at all . Hope it wasn't anywhere near rush hour.

[smartyiak]

Pio doesn't strike me as a Sperry Top Sider guy anyway.


On topic:



The rental counter gave us one of these way back when on a trip to 30a in Florida.

I got one of these while renting at TPA:


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!!!!