10 Worst Cars of All Time

thestreet ^ | 6-2012 | ted reed

[cornfedcowboy]

I owned a 79 Ford Fairmont. Great car if you ask me. put 150K miles on it. Didn’t need much work at all.
Oh yeah, it was cool. Two tone with pumpkin colored soft top. Power windows too.

[Army Air Corps]

Yep.

[Joe 6-pack]

Over the course of a few years, Pontiac got everything just about perfect with the Fiero, then having done so, they decided in 1988 that there was simply no future or profit in a small, lower end, two seat sports car.

The following year, Mazda introduced the Miata.

[kosciusko51]

You post reminded me of the Nissan Micra.

[kosciusko51]

You == Your

[Disambiguator]

Lucas electrical system?

[RightField]

Nice video. I never heard of that car.

I saw this guy ahead of me and as I took the pictures, I was planning on putting them up on FR eventually. I doubt if the guy is a Freeper.

[Olog-hai]

No question about that.

There was another generation of Cougars that were ugly turkeys though, and this one destroyed the name: 1999-2002, based on the Ford Contour/Mercury Mystique of all cars (themselves failures in those incarnations; they replaced the Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz) . . .

[central_va]

I always drove Firebirds during that time period. It’s just I never had a hate-on for the Stang II. The engine sucked but it wasn’t ugly.

[pfflier]

I looked with envy as the 86 Fiero came out with the V-6 and redone suspension. Lesson learned: Never by the first model year of a new car.

[Yardstick]

I agree. I think the Mustang II has nice lines.

[Olog-hai]

Wasn’t ugly?

[Fundamentally Fair]

I had a Cooper Mini as a rental one time. Same thing...a speedometer as big as a dinner plate in the center console.

[oh8eleven]

I never needed replacement smoke for my '77 Triumph Spitfire.
It generated same 24/7. LOL ...

[central_va]

The 65 Stang is a work of art, that doesn’t mean the stang II is totally ugly. It is acceptable. I mean people actually bought gremlins. We called them moonliners.

[central_va]

PS I just took delivery of a '13 stang just like this car.

[central_va]

PS I just took delivery of a '13 stang just like this car.

[Feckless]

My German landlord's favorite joke:

Q: What's the smallest car in the world?

A: The R3, it only holds one!

[Olog-hai]

The duration of a brand is its judge. The Mustang II ran for four years, since it was one car disguised as another. Those that deliberately go for subcompacts such as the Gremlin aren’t looks-conscious, otherwise the original Toyota Corolla wouldn’t have gotten off the ground and the Gremlin wouldn’t have had an eight-year run (and AFAICS, the second-generation Corolla had a very large influence on the looks of US subcompacts).

[Olog-hai]

It’s remarkable that we are now in a period where the six-cylinder pony cars have more horsepower than the base small-block V8s of the past, even some of the ones from the 60s. Who would have thought of a 305-horsepower six-cylinder Mustang even in 1969-70?