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FReeper Canteen~What Was The Worst Automobile You Ever Owned~16 Oct 08
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Posted on 10/15/2008 5:47:53 PM PDT by AZamericonnie

~The FReeper Canteen Asks~

What Was The Worst Automobile You Ever Owned?

1899-1939

From the Horsey Horseless to the Model T and the Airflow, ten horror stories from the auto industry's earliest days

1940-1959

From the Crosley Hotshot to the Dauphine and the King Midget, ten auto blunders from the '40s and '50s

1960-1974

From the Amphicar to the Pinto and the Gremlin, ten colossal car mistakes from the Vietnam era

1975-1989

From the Trabant to the Lagonda and the De Lorean, the worst cars of the 1980s

1990-Present

From the Prowler to the Explorer and the GM EV1, the worst cars from the past 17 years




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To: AZamericonnie

I’ve only seen her on the WebCam . . . she’s adorable!!! . . . ;-)


21 posted on 10/15/2008 5:54:41 PM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: AZamericonnie

The best car I have ever owned is on the list. Jag X-type. The problem has nothing to do with Jaguar, but rather the magazines that try to compare it, not to others in its class, but to cars costing 3 times as much.


22 posted on 10/15/2008 5:54:58 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: HopeandGlory

A yellow diesel VW Rabbit! A total and complete POS! It may have just been the color. My best friend had one of the same vintage and he put 234,000 miles on it!


23 posted on 10/15/2008 5:55:06 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: rottndog

A Mustang junker?

Was it just a lemon?


24 posted on 10/15/2008 5:55:32 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie

Plymouth Fury...I can’t remember the year, but I had it in college, and it was about 10 years old, so it was probably an early 60’s model.


25 posted on 10/15/2008 5:55:42 PM PDT by Dawn531
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To: AZamericonnie
2001 BMW 750 IL

The day I drove it home, the oil drained out on my driveway. It went downhill from there.

Thanks Hendrick BMW Charlotte you suck.

26 posted on 10/15/2008 5:56:55 PM PDT by Selmore (What we got here is... failure to communicate.)
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To: diverteach

Like this?


27 posted on 10/15/2008 5:57:39 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
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To: raybbr

“Toss up. Between my ‘71 Vega and my ‘73 Mercury Montego. “

I liked my used Corvair and my used Pinto and my used
Gremlin, but the Vega was so bad that I got in to do a test drive of a new one with a salesman, and before I started the engine I told the guy that this vehicle is just a piece of junk, I don’t need to test drive it and I bought a Corolla.


28 posted on 10/15/2008 5:57:44 PM PDT by ansel12 (America's favorite baby boomer, Sarah Barracuda. Hell, she's a natural-born world-shaker.)
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To: AZamericonnie

1971 VW Squareback. The door locks froze below 32 degrees and I had to crawl in through the hatch - with a baby! It had to be revved in neutral at stoplights so it didn’t die. What a piece of crap.


29 posted on 10/15/2008 5:57:48 PM PDT by swingstate_voter
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To: mnehrling
it lasted almost 200K miles

Wow....that's alot of miles!!

30 posted on 10/15/2008 5:58:22 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie

A 1982 Pontiac J2000 sedan, white w/a burgundy interior. It had a rear, main seal oil leak that could not be fixed. To get to the leak the dashboard had to be removed multiple times (resulting in the dashboard being cracked...and having to be replaced with various colors and GM makes of dashboards.) The leak would make the onboard computer short out. I can’t even remember how many times it was towed...such a bad karma vehicle that in a funeral home parking lot, a hearse backed into it T-boning it. It had some sort of bad moto mojo...


31 posted on 10/15/2008 5:58:33 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Who do you want in the White House...the Mommy or the Commie?)
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To: AZamericonnie

1973 AMC Gremlin. It leaked when it rained, the windows fell into the door regularly, it leaked oil almost from the day it left the dealer, the windshield wipers didn’t work, it was noisy, underpowered and ugly.


32 posted on 10/15/2008 5:59:02 PM PDT by redangus
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To: HopeandGlory

Have no idea on the year. But it was a Mercury Bobcat. I traded my 66 Impala for it and rued the day. That Impala would climb snow covered hills and get me where I needed to go. The Bobcat required that the A/C be turned off to climb a hill on clear day. I made $300 car payments to my Dad for 8 months to pay off that awful car. I was so happy when I unloaded that POC and moved on.


33 posted on 10/15/2008 5:59:46 PM PDT by lovesdogs
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To: AZamericonnie

1988 Chevy Beretta with the 3.1L V6. It ran great for the first 20K. After that, I had nothing but problems with the fuel sensor, engine thermostat, and many other issues. It was a money pit to keep on the road.


34 posted on 10/15/2008 5:59:50 PM PDT by edpc
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I lived in a sunbeam with two guys for a summer. We had a great time. One could burp in the gastank and go one hundred miles. We hung our clothes on the ariel to dry.
Those were good old days.


35 posted on 10/15/2008 6:00:09 PM PDT by Chickensoup ('08 VOTING for the SUPREME COURT that will be BEST for my FAMILY and voting for SARAH PALIN!!!)
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To: gbs
Triumph Spitfire!

I had one of those; don't miss it a bit.

36 posted on 10/15/2008 6:00:24 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: AZamericonnie

I owned one of these Citroen POS "trucks." One day the brake pedal assembly simply came off when I was braking. I had to jump out of the car and physically stop it "manually" to avoid running into a group of students. You should have seen the look on their faces.

37 posted on 10/15/2008 6:00:26 PM PDT by Grim
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To: AZamericonnie
Without a doubt: a ‘98 Audi A4 Quattro. The most expensive and least reliable POS car I ever owned. Although I kept up her maintenance (with the dealer) she broke down to the tune of $200-$1200 every couple of months. Audi "warranty" my arse! She eventually broke her timing belt - blowing the engine - with less than 120K miles on her. I junked her still owing 3 grand. “Hitler's Revenge” should be on her tombstone.
38 posted on 10/15/2008 6:00:37 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" white guy voting for Palin.)
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To: HopeandGlory

Unsafe at any speed

39 posted on 10/15/2008 6:00:41 PM PDT by Kay Syrah
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To: AZamericonnie

Not a car but the worst thing I ever owned was a Ford Aerostar.

I noticed almost every Aerostar I see out on the road has rust on the bottom sides.


40 posted on 10/15/2008 6:00:54 PM PDT by stbdside
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