AMC Pacer
Pontiac Sunbird
Chevy Citation
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Special Mention
Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Peugeot and AMC:
These are cars we fondly remember as rolling boat payments. We’d see them coming into the shop — usually on the back end of a tow truck — and we’d know it would be a good month. Unfortunately, these manufacturers are now on our fecal roster because they’ve pulled out of the U.S. market. Fiat and Alfa may come back in the next few years, even if they have to sneak in disguised as Chryslers. We just hope they haven’t improved too much.<<
I had a Fiat X-1/9. Properly named “Fix It Again Tony.”
Acura, 60k miles and all I’ve done is change the oil, an air filter and wipers.
Does need new tires though.
LOVE my 2000 Honda Accord V6 with 175,000+ miles. Plan to do another 175,000.
You know what those vehicles have in common?
They’re all as boring drive as can be. Which is fine, as long as all you care about is reliable basic transportation and stay in the slow lane.
They’ll love the Prius as soon as those expensive batteries poop out and the dealer tells the owner it’s time to buy a new car.
this list is nonsense. I remember reading the consumer reports list of most trouble free cars. the list went something like this
cadilac something or other(svt maybe)
mercury grand marquis
a couple toyotas
one honda
ford fusion
ford 500
I think there was one european car
a lincoln something or other.
Had a Gremlin and a Fiat. Kept several mechanics happy.
Triumph TR7
#1 junk..BMW
I live in South Florida and I’ll never buy a U.S. auto again. You see plenty of them down here, they’re the ones with burnt off and peeling paint on the upper surfaces, roof, hood and trunk. We don’t have rust down here but we don’t have much paint either (on the American vehicles).
It seems the more electronic doo-dads that are in a car the more things that can go wrong(Murphy’s Law). Give me a car from the 60’s or 70’s...I can usually look under the hood and do something about it...Give me the Mark I Mod I vehicle any day
but we used to have a ford contour that gave us absolutely no problems and was one of the most reliable vehicles we ever owned...I only got rid of it because my father left me his camry...
I bought a second hand Datsun B210 in 1980, drove the mess out of it for about 6 years.
Sold it to my BIL when it was over 200,000 miles. He drove it back and forth to Canada (from a Southern State) 4 times that I know of. It might still be running somewhere for all I know.
Thes are not cars; this is a list (compiled by a pair of public-radio liberals, BTW) of “driving appliances.”
They overrate several of these particular models’ reliability, and ignore the fact that they all drive the wrong wheels (in the case of the Subarus, they are AWD, but they are FWD-based AWD, which is different from, and inferior to, RWD-based AWD or 4WD).
I don’t blame the manufacturers, though. It is our idiotic government that has foisted these things on us, due to CAFE regulations.
I didn’t see the Hyundai Sante Fe on the list. My wife loved hers. She drove it for eight years and had no issues.
I had a Chevy Beretta for 2 years, i spent at least $100 a week fixing various things on it for the entire 2 years i owned it.
> “ I mean, you see a ‘99 Jeep Grand Cherokee roll into the shop and you can practically smell the transmission rebuild.”
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B.S.
The Jeep uses the same transmission that Honda and Toyota use: the Aisan.
Never believe these articles; they’re written for income, not to inform.
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