[OT] The Worst Car of the Millennium - The List
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Darth Shoju
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Thank gawd no. I've had 3 cars in my life thus far: first was a '76 Buick Skylark, then an '83 Plymouth Reliant, and now a '94 Ford Taurus SHO.
Thank gawd no. I've had 3 cars in my life thus far: first was a '76 Buick Skylark, then an '83 Plymouth Reliant, and now a '94 Ford Taurus SHO.
Cthulhu's Librarian
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One of my friends in high school had a lovely 2-tone brown and tan Chevette. We used to pack 6 people in it after school (a feat never worth repeating), drive 15 mile at about 35-40 mph and drop one kid off, then it would get up to about 45 mph, drive 2 more miles and drop a second kid off, after which you could get it up to about 50 mph. The rear floorboards eventually fell out while driving on the highway and he lost his entire tape collection which was on the floor at the time. He eventually ended up spraypainting it bright yellow and abandoned it in the school parking lot the day we graduated.
Djeta Thernadier
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No and I'm very happy about that.
But I am ashamed to admit that not only did my parents drive a Chevette in the early 80's, but that SOMEONE stole it from them, and they TRIED REALLY HARD to get it back...
I would have just let them keep it, personally.
I went out with a guy who drove a gremlin (we thought it was all kitschy and cool back then...now I know it was just a really bad car) & I used to get a ride home from my college classes from a guy who drove a VW Bus.
But I have never owned one of these. And with luck, never will.
~S
But I am ashamed to admit that not only did my parents drive a Chevette in the early 80's, but that SOMEONE stole it from them, and they TRIED REALLY HARD to get it back...
I would have just let them keep it, personally.
I went out with a guy who drove a gremlin (we thought it was all kitschy and cool back then...now I know it was just a really bad car) & I used to get a ride home from my college classes from a guy who drove a VW Bus.
But I have never owned one of these. And with luck, never will.
~S
Yeoman
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Um...yes.Psionicist said:
Point of fact, I have owned at least 1 of all the top 5 at one point, including 2 Chevettes.
BigFreekinGoblinoid
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Where is the AMC Pacer, AKA the Fishbowl of Death?
johnsemlak
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Worst car I ever drove was a Russian Lada 2101. The Yugo would be a step up from that.
For a short while, I drove a Yugo - but not you're average Yugo - a racing Yugo!
This guy put the thing together out of a Yugo and some spare escort parts. To this day I don't know how it actually ran. Now this guy was a Speed Racer freak, and decide to build this car with the express purpose of using it as a Halloween prop (and yes, I mean that literally - this is the same guy who bought an ancient Pinto in order to make it a big fishing lure the year before). But, by the time he got it finished, it was Novemeber, so it didn't get the white spray paint job and the big "M."
Instead he decided to make it his own version of the Mach 5. He even gave it a racing stripe and number - except that the car didn't deserve a full racing number so it got a big ".5" on the hood.
Well, you wouldn't believe the stares that the Point 5 got on the highway - especially when it hit about 90 and started passing Corvettes.
I loved that.
This guy put the thing together out of a Yugo and some spare escort parts. To this day I don't know how it actually ran. Now this guy was a Speed Racer freak, and decide to build this car with the express purpose of using it as a Halloween prop (and yes, I mean that literally - this is the same guy who bought an ancient Pinto in order to make it a big fishing lure the year before). But, by the time he got it finished, it was Novemeber, so it didn't get the white spray paint job and the big "M."
Instead he decided to make it his own version of the Mach 5. He even gave it a racing stripe and number - except that the car didn't deserve a full racing number so it got a big ".5" on the hood.
Well, you wouldn't believe the stares that the Point 5 got on the highway - especially when it hit about 90 and started passing Corvettes.
I loved that.
Kestrel
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Unfortunately yes....I owned a Dodge Aspen, for about a week.
Bought it for $200, it took 30 min to get warmed up in the fall in Atlanta GA! If you tried to put it in drive before it got warmed up, the engine would die. The car horn sounded like an asthmatic (sp?) after completing a pack of cigarettes at the end of a tenmile run.
At the end of the week, I plowed it into the back of an S-10. Stupid song on my crap radio and I wasn't paying attention. Good Riddance to bad trash.
Bought it for $200, it took 30 min to get warmed up in the fall in Atlanta GA! If you tried to put it in drive before it got warmed up, the engine would die. The car horn sounded like an asthmatic (sp?) after completing a pack of cigarettes at the end of a tenmile run.
At the end of the week, I plowed it into the back of an S-10. Stupid song on my crap radio and I wasn't paying attention. Good Riddance to bad trash.
Eh... Sounds highly exaggerated to me, actually, if amusing... I've experienced a lot of crappy Eastern European cars (Ladas, Wartburgs, Trabants, Dacias, license-made Polish Fiats) and while they were all junk, none of them generally had any problems with holes in the floor or pieces falling off in motion.
And where's that insane-looking Citroen (C2V?), with a body made from corrugated sheet metal, windows that opened by folding down the middle, and wheels that looked like thay had a roughly 8' diameter?
And where's that insane-looking Citroen (C2V?), with a body made from corrugated sheet metal, windows that opened by folding down the middle, and wheels that looked like thay had a roughly 8' diameter?
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