[tacticalogic]

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

[RJS1950]

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

[pt17]

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

Indeed, this 10 worst list is worthless without a Trabi. Take note authors:


The Trabant (1949 to 1989) was the GDR's answer to the Volkswagen. Intended to be economical, convenient and ubiquitous, it succeeded in being only the latter.

Despite production times from hell (the average Trabant owner waited nine years to get their lemon), the Trabi, as it was affectionately dubbed, is still one of the most common cars on the road in Eastern Germany.

Each Trabi took so long to build becauase its plastic pieces (most of the vehicle's parts, aside from the frame, hood and other necessarily strong sections, were plastic) were molded by workers running hand-operated molding systems.

Above comments by Nick Selby
ZWICKAU, Germany

[Thisiswhoweare]

Or a Chevy Citation. The name should have been the first clue! LOL! (but not too hard after two engines in two years.)

[Revolting cat!]

Trabant - the car even rats love!

True story (as I heard it anyway.) Trabant, made in the people's paradise of the GDR, during the 1960s if I'm not mistaken, had a body made of plastic which was loved by rats which feasted on it.

[arthurus]

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

These are mostly Americans and Europeans and other mostly civilized people who have thus not had any experience of or even heard of a Trabant.

Of course there is also the DAF, a Dutch motorcar that had rubber belts in its transmission.

[MotleyGirl70]

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

...and not have the Ford Escort!!!!!

[BluesDuke]

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

Not to mention the Chrysler K cars, or the original Ford Falcon...

[Budge]

Any other old f_rts beside me remember the Henry J? Even Sears Roebuck sold the thing under a different name.

Kaiser-Frazier built the things, or so they claimed. Four cylinder, must have been at leaast 50 hp. A friend had one in his younger days. Several of us actually took a short trip in it once. Of course, we had to get snockered to take it out on the highway.

Biggest little POS I ever rode in...almost.

My personal number one was a brand new '64 Mustang. Traded it for a new LeMans when the second transmission blew in front of the Pontiac place, which was next door to the Ford dealer where I had just picked it up after the new transmission was installed. I have thanked God all these years they never tried to drive the thing, just started it up and gave me almost what I paid for it!

Most fun car I ever owned was the Mazda with the large Wankle engine in it. That silly looking thing would rev way past 14,000 RPM and even out drag Corvettes.