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...

[manic4organic]

My friend had a Spyder in the 70s. He called it a “Fiatsco.”

[VOA]

we have to consider the source:
TIME and Dan Neil, Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive critic and
syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times,

Los Angeles is loaded with Democrats/Lieberals that want the
unwashed masses pushed onto public transportation (busses and
the Metro...so they can drive Hummers, Bugattis, and other
gas-guzzling (and wonderful!) vehicles.

As for the Model T:
1. Affordable
2. Readily repairable
3. Not just a car but a farm implement (using the Power Take Off to
power farm equipment

Failing to name the Model T as the Volkswagen Bug of it's day
(only decades ahead of time)...Dan Neil was either having a
bad day or on an excess of drugs.

[Millee]

LOL - good line! :o)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Mostly he trashes the Model T for starting people buying cars. That’s his real beef.

"It wasn't Marx, but Ford who made the Revolution possible by freeing the proletariat from the idiocy of rural life."

-Lenin

[TruthWillWin]

The worst 50 cars with a liberal slant by the writers. Here's what they say about the 1995 Ford Explorer:

In its very success, the Ford Explorer is responsible for setting this country on the spiral of vehicular obesity that we are still contending with today. People, particularly women drivers, discovered that they liked sitting up high. Even though more fuel-efficient minivans do the kid- and cargo-hauling duties better, people came to prefer the outdoorsy, go-anywhere image of SUVs. In other words, people became addicted to the pose. And, as vehicles got bigger and heavier, buyers sought out even bigger vehicles to make themselves feel safe. Helloooo Hummer. All of that we can lay at the overachieving feet of the Explorer.

[mmanager]

I had a 1972 Fiat 128. I was constantly working on it. My father refered to it as “deigo’s dream” (no disrespect to anyone)

[Proud2BeRight]

Typical Time crappola.

[B Knotts]

Dumb article.

The definition of "worst" seems to be "the writer personally dislikes it."

The Excursion? Please. There was nothing wrong with that vehicle.

[ulm1]

1971 Plymouth Cricket.

THREE transmissions in 4700 miles. Massive electrical problems. Mercifully put to death with only 11,000 miles

[B Knotts]

Heh. When I clicked on the link, I actually did think of the Fiero.

[Tolsti]

Funny how dems, bin laden, and lenin often have the exact same message.

[pineybill]

I’m wondering the exact same thing - I guess the esteemed writer at Time would rather have passed the last century by avoiding horse crap in the streets and the diseases it carried then the wonders of the modern age. Why stop with the car -maybe we could have done without electricity -look at all the energy that uses - and avoided all the complications of let’s see -refrigeration, air conditioning, aviation. Women could still shop at a local market every day and take the wash down to the river on the weekend and do it over one of those old washboards - sort of a world only the Taliban dreams about today.
What a jerk that guy is.

[Liberty2007]

this writer is a leftist shill masquerading as an auto journalist. what about the hippy vans,prius, they would shutdown on the freeway.

[decimon]

A century later, the consequences of putting every living soul on gas-powered wheels are piling up...

It was government and not industry that put every living soul on the government roads.

[ReignOfError]

A bit of leftwing hysteria thrown in, typical CNN.

What story are you reading? The one linked above is by an LA Times car critic writing for Time Magazine.

[clyde asbury]

Looks like they forgot the Aurora.

[KarlInOhio]

Any list of the worst cars without the Vega shouldn’t be taken seriously. Those cars were made of compressed rust just waiting for the paint to fall off.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Ever since those fools allowed the serfs to talk back the world went to hell.

[Tribune7]

50 more reasons why nobody reads Time.

[Old Professer]

He is basically a social critic who uses the enormously popular automobile as a watering trough for his tortured slop.