Ever watch those Russian Crash videos on YouTube? Half the time it's a Lada involved.
This guy is lucky as Hell.
Posted on 01/16/2020 12:19:08 PM PST by C19fan
In a 1982 commercial promoting the LeBaron, Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca famously declared, "If you can find a better car, buy it." A big boast, to be sure, but Iacocca had a lot to be proud of. Cars riding on its front-drive K-platform—like the LeBaron—saved Chrysler from death, helped the company pay back a government bailout in short order, and made a celebrity out of Iacocca. Now, keep all of this in mind when you consider this car here.
It's Iacocca's personal 1986 LeBaron Town & Country convertible, and it will be auctioned by Bonhams in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Thursday, January 16. If you can find a better car, buy it.
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“” “” Next to the Lada, that was the worst car ever sold.”” “”
Were these ever sold in US? I believe Ladas do not deserve the poor reputation. If you are capable to tolerate a cheap falling apart plastic interior and keep the rust away they last forever. Engine and transmission are literally undestructible. They don’t even depreciate much given the body is not rusty. In the markets they are present a 1999 Lada Niva SUV priced about the same as an Escalade from that same year. New Niva is about 10% of new Escalade. That’s some great value.
Thought is was a Yugo that did the Mac Bridge Flight? First stop the Straits...
I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that.
I meant:
the Lying Kenyan Usurper...
A replica of that family truckster sold yesterday at Barrett/Jackson for 20K. The actress who played the Griswold’s daughter was in the passenger seat onstage waving at the crowd.
Average Lada was always a bigger, more rugged and a better built comparing to Yugo.
The Straits of Mackinac is often subject to high winds. The Mackinac Bridge is often shut down during such times because, being a suspension bridge, it sways in high winds. Apparently that didn’t happen the day this unfortunate young lady in her Lada went airborne.
Are we supposed to feel sorry for you? No one is making you keep it. Unless its an SM thing.
Just kidding.
Back in the day, Eddie Murphy incorporated that into his act:
My car talks, man. I got one of those 1982 Datsuns. You leave yo' lights on, the car say- *dooo* 'Lights are on'. It does. I take a girl out, I leave the lights on on purpose, you know? Get out the car, car say- *dooo* 'lights are on'. Girl say, "Did your car say somethin'?" I say, "Yeah, it did."
I bought it from my neighborhood though, got a different rhythm to it. You leave yo' lights on, car say- *dooo* ("black" voice) "Say, man, you lef' yo' lights on!' 'I said yo' lights is on, man! What the f**k- you blind and deaf? Turn off yo' ******' lights!"
I got in the car the other day, turned the key, car say- *dooo* Hey, man! Somebody stole yo' battery! I say we go get the m**********r!"
Not at all. I love the car.
Ever watch those Russian Crash videos on YouTube? Half the time it's a Lada involved.
This guy is lucky as Hell.
Looks like it was also is fault...
As soon as I saw the video I thought, “Got to be Russia.”
Correct. They got help from Caterpillar research and converted a gas v8 into a diesel. Cat then later built a v8 diesel with no cylinder liners like a gas engine. The 1160.
Most American cars of that era sucked in long strokes.
That’s 1980 Riva. Just short of 18 million were made so there are plenty of them still on roads.
Not if you were into fun cars. Lousy mileage, rough running, ping like a diesel on the junk EPA gas.
Good thing we never got into a war with them, they are indestructible.
“There were a lot of bad cars built in the late 70’s and early 80’s.”
That was when American car manufacturers committed suicide.
The Chrysler minivans had at least as much to do with the company’s revival as the k-cars. The subcompact Omni and Horizon (not K-cars) were also decent sellers. The LeBaron was for a time the only American car available as a convertible, so it sold well. I referred the M bodies myself (Custom Fury, Dodge Diplomat ... 318 ci RWD).
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