[Alaska Wolf]

I've owned lots of good ones; '57 Chevy, '68 Torino GT, '72 Ford Bronco, '76 F-250 4X4, '78 Ford Bronco, '84 Ford Bronco, '86 1 ton Quadravan, '89 Corvette, '93 Corvette, '97 Expedition, '98 Expedition, '98 F-150 4X4, 2000 F-150 4X4, 2001 F-150 4X4, 2002 Excursion, 2003 F-250 4X4 and a 2006 Mustang GT.

The worst; '66 Pontiac LeMans, '68 VW fastback and a '80 Subaru Wagon.

[Marathoner]

Best: 72 Dodge Dart
Worst: 90 Hyundai Sonata (I’ve read they’re a lot better now, but man the early ones sucked big time)

[dznutz]

Best: 67 Cutlass , 330c.i. Power glide trans. Bought it in 85 for $500 and never put a dime into it. Drove it everywhere with no problems. Sold it a few years later along with my Monte Carlo S.S. when I got married.

Worst: 89 Iroc Z-28. Fast as lightning but very temperamental.

[ForMyChildren]

Most fun car: 1973 BMW 2002. Too many great memories from college in Chapel Hill to list!

Most sensible car: 2002 4WD Sequoia. 346,000 miles after five children and with original engine & trans. still runnning like new.

[Second Amendment First]

Best: wife’s current ‘06 Chevy Trailblazer SS
6 liter Corvette engine delivers 395 hp & 400 torque
all wheel drive and fun fun fun
(till I got the ticket @ 89 mph, didn’t stop me, went 111 shortly therafter)

Worst: ‘61 Rambler
wipers would stop going uphill,
although my friends in college loved to borrow it overnight for dates since the seats went the whole way down.

[central_va]

I had a firebird like this in the 70's. I wish I still had that car. Paid 600 bucks for it. Got 10mpg city 12mpg hi-way. Great car.

[1217Chic]

Best - 2000 Accord EX/1974 Camaro LT
Worst - 1984 Camaro beautiful but a lemon

[Sergio]

Best – ’97 Toyota Camry, 265,000 miles and still runs like a top.
Worst – ’95 Dodge Intrepid, bad paint, bad electrical, bad mechanicals.
Most Fun (Tie) – ’70 Buick Skylark GS (455ci V8), ’72 Triumph TR6, 2K VW GTI VR6.

[SoDak]

Best: 1965 IH 4X4’ three on the tree, inline 6, stepside pickup, it was my first ride, and I didn’t appreciate it, and traded it in 1985 for my worst car..1979 Dodge St. Regis. Also, I pretty much loved my 96 Laredo.

[cva66snipe]

Best car 72 Ford Torino stock 302 I had a for few months. I sold it to get my daughter a less powerful car. Worse car? That's real easy a 69 Renault 10. 30K new engine 50K new trans-axle. France should apologize to the world for making that crappy car. Best 4WD 78 K-5 Chevy. Best truck? The 95 F-150 4X4 Dad left me a year and half ago. It just hit the 100K mark.

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Hopefully in a week I will be able to say my favorite car is the one I just purchased, a 1969 Mustang Convertible. Praying no one else finds out it is for sale and praying they don't change their mind about selling it to me at the quoted price. The owner is the dad of a friend of my son. Worst car is the piece of junk 1996 Chevy Astro Van I was glad to get rid of. Great thread.

[andyk]

Best - 1988 Honda Prelude Si with 4 wheel steering. Smallest turning radius I’ve ever seen!

Worst - 1991 Range Rover. Stupid cooling and electrical issues.

[norwaypinesavage]

Best: '64 Corvette convertible. I drove it for 10 years and 200,000 miles and sold it for $300 less than I paid for it.

Worst: 1981 Pontiac J2000. Too many bad things to list in one post. I actually got to watch this one get built. I recall an assembly line worker jumping into the engine compartment to try to attach a screw that wouldn't go in to the inlet air grill. His foreman finally yelled out: "Let it go. 3 out of four screws ought to hold it on."

[Road Glide]

My lifetime car history:

1972-79 — 1966 VW Campmobile. In terms of mechanical reliability, was most definitely “the worst”, but it took me to a lot of bluegrass festivals. I eventually sold it to a young guy who did a complete restoration.

1979-86 — 1979 Honda Accord. I had got my first (actually my only) real job, and needed a reliable commuting vehicle for longer distances that could go more than 50mph. The first Accord took me 170,000 miles, though it was using a little oil towards the end.

1986-93 — 1986 Honda Accord. First one gave good service, so I replaced it with an updated version. The ‘86 went 192,000 miles, then I sold it and got….

1993-2005 — 1993 Acura Integra. The last one on the lot for that model year. Drove that car just over 300,000 miles, and it didn’t even burn oil when I finally sold it for $400. That may be the “best one”, simply on the basis of its longevity. Kept me going twelve years. Actually, around 2001 I thought “it was time for a new car”, so I started shopping for one. Four years later, I decided on...

2005-present — 2005 Toyota RAV4. My first vehicle with a stereo and air conditioning and power windows (all the previous were “stripped-down, basic” versions). Carried me 6+ years and into retirement. Nothing needed (except for some rear-end damage to the rear door, bumped by a lady in a red Mercedes) other than routine maintenance, it has 148,000 on it now, still doing fine.

Choose wisely, and you won’t have to replace your cars very often!

[Brett66]

Worst car was a 1993 Pontiac Grand Prix turbo, started breaking down as soon as I drove it off of the auction floor.

Best was my 1978 Transam, dropped a 455 Pontiac engine in it and raced it to death. The gas prices started inching up and I just couldn’t maintain it and sold it.

[Fledermaus]

BEST: 1965 Pontiac Catalina 2DR V-8 (bought it in 1975 before I turned 16). Made learning the birds and bees easy with a front seat that was very wide.

WORST: 1985 Buick Skylark. Brand new car we bought when we got married. One week in the engine blew and left my wife stranded on an interstate at 11 pm in Arlington, TX where we lived. There was a serial killer loose in the area and it took us five hours to find her (she was working night audit and didn’t make it to work).

[TurboZamboni]

86 Dodge Omni
survived getting hit by a semi-truck from behind and was still running and driveable, but 3 feet shorter.
(had 240k on it at the time. 2.2 motor and 5 speed manual)

Worst:
72 Ford Maverick. complete Bondo car but only paid $75.00.
rear bumper fell off once while driving across a frozen lake.

[pnz1]

Best ever-2008 Trailblazer SS.. just wish it were 6 speed
Worst-a Jeep

[pricilla]

Ha ha,I had one of these once upon a time...

[muir_redwoods]

Worst, 1986 Dodge K-car. Just a krappy kar, it finally had to be hauled away when the manual transmission locked up solid; the most solid thing about that piece of krap.

Best, 2002 AWD Audi TT convertible 6-speed. It goes like the wind and I can snap your head back against the head rest in the first 5 gears.