The Worst American Cars - POLL

Forbes ^ | 10.21.02 | Michael Frank

[paul51]

Sweet

[Tall_Texan]

I think you're describing the Caddy Seville

Yes! Ugliest thing on the road. I lobbied for an ugliness tax for every Seville owner.

It always reminded me of the way a dog stands when taking a crap.

[bribriagain]

The Chevrolet Vega was Chevies answer to the Ford Pinto. I bought a Vega in 1973 and it started burning oil after 500 miles. We're talking huge blue plumes of smoke.

[Taxman]

You read it here first: The Australian GTO is going to sell like hotcakes. GM will not be able to keep up with demand.

[rockfish59]

I think the Gremlin looks pretty cool. Hell, drop a pumped 283 in it and C-YA!!!

(I have a '78 Malibu) =0)

[SW6906]

I remeber reading one of those magazine retrospectives (Life Magazine?) on the 70s and they had 1/2 to whole page mini-stories on all kinds of things from the 70s. When it came to the Chevy Vega, all they said was something like "There's something disconcerting about a car that rusts on the showroom floor".....

[Cobra64]

Cadillac Cimarron, and Chevy Vega. Both crap.

[rockfish59]

Dog crap....heh, heh!

[LeftIsSinister]

Woo hoo! A "worst car" poll that DOESN'T include the Chevy Vega! Finally! :)

[GluteusMax]

I can't believe no one has mentioned the Taurus. Any year. What turd-boxes. Or the horrible Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth offerings: TC3/Shelby(really)/Omni/Horizon/Mizer clones..They put the UGHH in ugly and leaked every fluid when they ran.

[The Great Satan]

Have to agree about that '86 Eldo. Talk about devolution. Here's two earlier editions, from before the rot set in:

 

[Lightnin]

I own a 1983 BMW 633 CSI and just recently restored it. It's the best handling car I've ever driven and plan to keep it the rest of my life. When I travel and need to rent a car, the new machinery doesn't begin to measure up.

[Cobra64]

All French cars. That's why they cannot sell them here. They are all merde.

[Petronski]

Can you say 'broken spring?'

[Petronski]

Caprice Classic: "Nylon reverse gear"

You're kidding, right?

[Recon by Fire]

How about this one?

[Woodman]

You mean it's supposed to go through corners?

[Damocles]

Another great thing about the Chevette was how easy it was for a group of 6-8 guys to lift the thing and move it to really weird places. Like, say onto a very steep bridge embankment.

Not that I would know anything about that...

[c-b 1]

They forgot about the Chevy Vega and the melting aluminum engine block....

Don't forget the melting body, that turned to rust.

Before I opened this thread I knew it had to be the Vega, and they forgot it.

[Freedom4US]

Had an 82 Citation sedan w/ V6 and put 140,000 miles on it with no problems other than a fuel pump at around 100K, had a lockup torque converter and got phenomenal gas mileage. While the series may have been dogs, this particular car was very good.