Posted on 06/13/2012 9:59:05 AM PDT by doug from upland
An Aztek parked next to me yesterday, what a revolting vehicle.
The Chevy Citation was pretty bad. I remember trying to stop for a red light in the rain at rush hour in Philly the first time I drove the car to work. I applied the brakes and not forcefully. The car hydroplaned right through the intersection in a perfect straight line. Just kept going. I practically needed a notebook to form a plan on how to stop in the rain. Never could figure out which way the rear suspension was going to send me. Kinda like my 90 Mustang GT but without the fun.
As if they don’t know...
The Mustang began as a secretaries car and ended up a man’s car, a race car — fast cars and hair engines. The kind of car that Steve McQueen would immortalize on film. There is a reason he didn’t use a Volkswagen Beetle or flower power VW Bus for the film Bullit.
The Mustang II was first and always a woman’s car. It was perfectly suited for Charlies Angels. There is a reason you didn’t see Jim Rockford drive one.
No straigt male would voluntarily own a Mustang II. If you wanted a new car, you got a Z28 or a Trans Am, or maybe even an AMC Javeline, but never a Mustang II.
And that was it’s problem.
The Mustang II was a top to bottom girls car that replaced a testosterone raging performance car. Far better they dropped Mustang entirely and produced this car as the Ford Pony.
No wonder GM went on to smash pony car sales with the Camaro/Firebird twins. A straight man would never own the pathetic girls car. A man would have to be a posive car hater to own one.
Well, it was bad if you get hit from the rear, which we did-—thankfully, the car didn’t catch on fire, and we were able to get out—
There's no doubt Government adversely limits human creativity, but they never expect the "work arounds." Back under Clinton when high capacity magazines were banned in handguns, the manufacturers just embarked on seeing who could build the smallest, most concealable 10-round pistols. It drove the left nuts :-)
Biggest dud was a 1978 Fiat 131. Looked great and ran like a spanked rabbit when new. By 30,000 miles it was a POS.
GM management killed Saturn. They took away their independence.
I’m sorry I just can’t take these rankings seriously, so many bad cars are missing from the top 10. Aztec may not be popular but it’s not #1.
Chevette is missing. Gremlin or Pacer is missing. AMC Matador anyone? Crappy massive 70s Thunderbird? Pinto not there? No crappy 80s Chrysler K cars? None?
I just can’t take these lists seriously.
It was a good wagon and a real turnpike runner.
I’ll have to ask him what it had.
But the day it dumped the oil out was quite interesting.
And all the seals were fine.
That was teh weird part.
Had us scratching our heads for the whole week.
He described the experience like this:
“I was driving on Route 84 heading from PA into NY and heard this horrible noise that sounded like the car was razzing me. Next thing I see, a huge cloud from under the car, followed by an oil slick behind me. I went to pull to the side of the road. As I got to the shoulder the car slammed to a halt.”
We all laughed when he did his impression of a Buick blowing him the raspberries.
We all figured the engine was toast.
I still don’t know what happened or how it did it.
The underpowered front wheel drive Cadillac Allante. Cadillac asked $55k for this bomb thinking you wouldn't get the Mercedes convertible and when you giggled and said "Ok, really, how much?" the dealer would get pissed off.
I had a Gremlin, it was nearly indestructible. Plus through in the huge(I think 22 or 23 gal) gas tank and you could drive forever as well.
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