The 50 Worst Cars of All Time

time.com ^ | Dan Neil,

[shove_it]

... the Model T was a piece of junk, the Yugo of its day...

[ReignOfError]

no mention of the Chrysler “K” cars

I'd say that the K-car was mediocre, not "worst" or even all that bad. The K-cars I knew had performance and reliability on a par with the competition in that price range, and were among the first to start to compete with Japanese cars on that basis.

Incidentally, I have long believed that the K-car was an undocumented part of the government bailout of Chrysler. My theory: Someone at the GAO slipped Chrysler a copy of the government's procurement guidelines, and Chrysler designed the K-car to fit them to a tee. That big contract definitely helped with Chrysler's comeback.

[shove_it]

Thanks. That’s my mission - to root these out and post them for target practice. Hence my screen name.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Worse than a Pinto, almost as bad as a Yugo... a disgrace to Mustangs...

[vietvet67]

Q.How do you double the value of a Yugo?
A.Fill the Tank
Q. What is found on the last two pages of every Yugo owner’s manual?
A. The bus schedule.
Q: What is the sport-version of Yugo?
A: The driver wears Nike shoes.

“The Oakland Police captured two men in their Yugo last night.
The men are being held as suspects in the city’s first push-by shooting.”

[Fresh Wind]

The Mock One!

[RayChuang88]

Actually, that economic downtown in 1919-1920 also made General Motors a powerhouse, especially since its Chevrolet models were by that time not much more expensive than the Ford Model T and definitely WAY better than the Model T. Small wonder why GM grew at Ford's expense during the 1920's.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Gremlin and VW “Thing”.

[spokeshave]

"I still surprised a few Camaro owners with that little station wagon (forest green, luggage rack, white wall tires, etc)."

Mine was the '78....kids transorter...we called it the "generic green stationwagon"....but it survived a trip to Disneyland....(except for a hole in the radiator).

[Sue Perkick]

Ain’t that the truth. Mine was rusting in less than 3 years. And it was the only car I ever had that required me to carry a screwdriver for the choke & a spare battery in the back.

[TWohlford]

“no mention of the Chrysler “K” cars”

That little platform gave us the Mopar minivans, the LaBaron convertible, and a few other nice variants.

Then again, the Ford Fairmount of the late 70’s gave us the third-gen Mustang.

[the invisib1e hand]

wow. can’t believe that line is in there. typical leftist psycho-rant. if I’d known it was like that, I wouldn’t have come near this thread.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Ford decided that, like the Mustang II, nothing good happens when you brand an sport import beater w/ the Mustang name.

The replacement for the Ford Mustang was based on a shortened verson of the Fairmount chassis, which has to be close to being on this list too.

The Mustang II was a disgrace... see post #123...

[vietvet67]

lol. My last company car was lime green and I picked the color out. Chevelle with white interior. Caused quite a stir at the office. lol

[TWohlford]

Q: Name the only car to ever go over the side of the Mackinaw Bridge, crashing into the water 200 feet below?

A: You got it — Yugo.

[RayChuang88]

While the K-car helped Chrysler come back, it was the minivan derived from this very platform that really drove Chrysler’s comeback.

[MarkL]

Facts without context are worse than lies, almost.

Well, this does appear to come from Time, so what else should we expect?

Mark

[texas booster]

How can any Internationale like this Marxist writer not even include cars like the Lada?

Millions sold around the world, dirt cheap, and so popular that they were even imported back into the Soviet Union from Western nations. Even the body style stayed mostly unchanged for decades.

And quality?!? How much more quality could one driver deserve than owning a Lada!

This moonbat author is to the left of Stalin and truly knows nothing. Worthless drivel.

I suspect that he got more hits from FR than he did from the rest of the world.

[Blue Highway]

What year was it and did it have the crappy 4 banger or the 170 cu in V6? The V6 in my sister's 77/78 Mustang II wasn't too bad at all. It was a shame to consider most of the Mustang II's (with exception to the Cobra which I thought was cool with the white w/blue striping) as Mustangs, but I still liked them for what they were at the time.

[phil1750]

I actually owned a 1971 Ford Pinto. Kept it about 11 months and traded it off. Worst auto I ever owned.

[ReignOfError]

You might want to try running Windows 95 for the same kind of time consuming fun. Anyone still using it?

Windows 95 was Mac 89. I took a pass.