10 Worst Cars of the Millennium

Car talk ^ | 04/18/02 | Click & Clack the Tappit Brothers

[yankeedame]

Got this off of AOL today. Realize it's not "new" but still though an oldies it's still a goody! (Frankly I wounder by a Datsun B210 wasn't on the list. That sure would hve gotten MY vote!)

P.S. Not sure how to cut-and-paste a multipage article, so keyed this whole thing in by hand...So please forgive any typos and/or other techno boo-boos. Thanks!

[tacticalogic]

How can you have a "10 Worst Cars" list, and not have a Trabant on it?

[Mike Fieschko]

keyed this whole thing in by hand

wow, a true labor of love

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Not sure how to cut-and-paste a multipage article, "

If you're really interested in learning, let me know. It requires you to download one small MicroSoft utility and I could teach you in one lesson.

[Fish out of Water]

index bump

[shaggy eel]

,,, can't agree with the slagging given to Renault's R5 or "Le Car" as it was marketed in the US as. There were over 500,000 of them made for world consumption and they served their purpose quite well. The hot version, called the Gordini, was something I never had the pleasure of driving. From the time that model left the showroom floor it was a collector's item.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"My vote would be for the 1981 model cutlass...truly a piece of garbage "

Wow. I'm surprised. I worked in the assembly plant that made the '81 Regal and Cutlass vehicles and I always thought they were pretty good cars.
At least our Weekly Quality Index was very high.

[Ford Fairlane]

I have to dispute the comments about the Gremlin. While admittedly UGLY, it was available with the AMC 360 V8 as an option. A friend of mine has one & loves to outrun kids in their Mustangs & Camaros. (The even UGLIER Pacer was also available with this engine)

[Bogey78O]

Datsuns were fun. My mom and dad owned one of the really small ones. For fun my dad and his friend would pick it up when my mom got in it. To get it moving he'd open up the door and push it like the Flintstones.

[BornOnTheFourth]

OMIGOSH, that's funny!

My first car was a 65 MBG, it was sooooooooooo fun--both days it worked! (right, Dad???)

[aomagrat]

I had a '71 Pontiac Firebird. It got about 5 gallons to the mile. It would overheat while cranking.

[AppyPappy]

My sister had a Volare Station Wagon

Yup

[Bogey78O]

A guy I know put dual quad carbs in an old muscle car. Can't remember what type. When he floored it you could see the gas gauge crawling towards empty.

[RJS1950]

Add the Plymouth Cricket to that list, much worse than a Chevette.

[GaConfed]

Just bought an 86 Cimmaron. Don't have any problems yet except it needs a new muffler. It will flat out get on up to about 80 mph in a great big hurry. Thought I was in a 67 Chevelle with a 396 there for a minute.

[Dialup Llama]

At Laguna Seca I actually saw them race, not the Chevette, but the model that was smaller. They went abt 80 mph.

[Malcolm]

Glad the Vega was on there. My mother had a '73 wagon, and both the motor and transmission had to be replaced in the 10 year period she owned it. The Escort she replaced it with was a lemon, too; it burned up due to a fuel leak. She got a Grand Am, which was so good, (relatively speaking, of course!), that I got one later as well. Grand Ams are ugly, but apparently its the only model that Detroit can make that is somewhat tolerable.....

[LibWhacker]

I remember the Fiat used to be called the Fiasco. Must've been for a good reason.