Must've been built by drunk East Germans.
High maintenance like you wouldn't believe.
Worst vehicles: A new 1965 British Triumph TR-4, 1985 Chrysler, 1987 Mercedes 190.
Best vehicles: 1963 Plymouth Valiant. 1988 Jeep Comanche PU, 1974 Ford F-150 4x4, 1986 (which still have) full size Jimmy K-5, 1998 Ford Eddie Bauer (which also still have) Explorer.
Do you know the Yugo had a rear window defroster as standard equipment? It was really handy for pushing it on cold mornings!
Bump for later.
Vega...
No va.
One cold day, the block froze, and I found someone who could swap engines for cheaper than I could rebuild the original engine.
What a mistake!
I was just a kid and didn't know any better, but the other engine was a Ford, yes, but not built for the Fairlane. So the moron welded in the motor mounts.
Next..... /Duh! The transmission would not match up with that motor, so moron finds a good 3 speed manual to install.
After many weeks and mucho dinero, I had my car back. Great! But within a few weeks, guess what happens to welded in motor mounts?
Yep. They break.
I can't tell you how many times I had to re-weld those motor mounts in, until I found some universal motor mounts that took.
And even then, because the mounts had slack in them, the engine would torque and shift, and when that happened (often) the clutch linkage slipped off the side of the block. No clutch = No go.
I carried a small floor jack for when that happened. I would climb under the car, base the jack on the inside fender well, jack the engine away about 2 inches, slip the clutch linkage back into place, release the jack, and be back on the road.
Happened way too often.
Man I hated that car, but man I loved that car. My first car; a 1968 Ford Fairlane.
1987 K5 Chevy Blazer. Fell apart completely at 78,000 miles. Pure junk. Expensive too.
A Buick Electr Stationwagon was the worst piece of junk that we have ever owned, without a doubt. We only had it for three years and when we traded it in, it need about three thousand dollars worth of repairs after already having a new transmission, new radiator, new heater. The airconditioning no longer worked, the electric windows wouldn't go down, the electric seats didn't move, the environmental air pollution thingy was disconnected because it wrecked the carburator (it was an '85). I can't even remember all the parts that we had already replaced. Oh, and the fuel guage didn't work, either. I guess that I didn't mention that it would just shut off sometimes when you went around a corner. It would start up again, but you had to coast to the side of the road and turn the key.
A green Dodge St. Regis. But even that wasn't all that bad of a car.
Must've been built by drunk East Germans.
High maintenance like you wouldn't believe.
1984 Ford Thunderbird. The primitive onboard computer was screwed up, every time you used the power seat adjustor, the clock reset to noon. And the body, which was coated with every kind of weather proofing available, ate itself up with rust in about three years flat. Every tiny nick turned into rust cancer. The dealer service people just laughed. I actually met an inspector one time who worked at the plant where the POS was made and told him about it. He said, "Yeah, we had some bad alloy that year," and shrugged.
Having had my car totalled and neck broken by a drunk driver as a teen and broke, for a time I rode a bent up Puch moped.
A 79 AMC Concord. Bought it used in 83 when our second car died. It leaked, it rusted and I don't know how it lasted three years with us. It got me to work and back but you'd never take it more than ten miles.
My fave? My 93 Saturn SL 2. Just sold it this past March. It had 140K. Replaced the alternator once and nothing else but brakes and belts and hoses for 12 years. And it handled wonderfully with surprising oomph for a 124 HP.
This was the BEST car I ever owned.
Ford Expedition: the worst.
The best: Toyota Lexus.
Well, I've never owned a vehilce. Smile.
But the worst car I ever owned was a .... Plymouth Arrow, and to make matters worse, it was orange. I don't know what my mom was thinking when she bought it, God rest her Soul.
1981 Plymouth TC3 ("sporty" version of the Horizon). Bought it new, and it was essentially scrap at 26K miles. Overheated in summer, constant electrical system problems, problems with vacuum lines disintegrating for no apparent reason. Traded it in (for less than I owed on it at the time) on a Honda, which ended my car problems.