the K-car. A real piece of sh*t. Any way you slice it.
Most American cars of that era sucked in long strokes.
While the K-car may not have been perfect(and it wasn’t) it was still a far cry from the worst of it’s type....and this is based on experience.
Yep - I had a Dodge Aries...bad seams and coating under wheel well let water leak into trunk when driving on wet roads, lousy gasket let water fill up[ left taillight assembly, alignment couldn’t be adjusted to specs w/o special kits, VW Rabbit engine had paper head gasket which blew at about 50K miles, A/C crapped out around same time. Heating/A/C air system fan motor stopped working and the 29 cent piece of plastic with coils on it, that fed power to the blower motor, cost about $40 to buy so I could replace it. Lousy acceleration and gas mileage wasn’t commensurate with lack of power.
Other than that it was a nice little car.