[OT] The Worst Car of the Millennium - The List

[Ace]

My family owned a Chevy Vega for something like 15 years.

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Most models of cars occasionally have lemons -- a single example that just doesn't work, and isn't indicative of the entire line. Our Vega seemed to be the opposite.

Heh. Sounds like you got a Wednesday car

A buddy of mine told me that American cars fall into catagories based on what day they were made

Monday cars suck because, well its Monday

Tuesday cars are decent

Thursday cars are OK

Friday cars suck because everybody wants to go home and doesn't have their mind on their work

Wednesday cars OTOH are the best. Not only is everybody warmed up for the week but the weekend is to far away to worry about.

Of course you and I rarely see them since the dealers have a sweetheart deal with the factory and take all the best ones

Of course the whole thing is hooey. And it wouldn't pass Snopes but what they hey it is fun

 

[Moxie]

I was listening to these same guys on their radio show the day a young woman called in who owned a Chevette with over 100,000 miles on it. They laughed and then refused to believe her. Then she asked her question.

It had never had the oil changed in it. Her boyfriend told her to change it immediately when he found out and she asked it that was a good idea.

After a lot of laughing they decided that the car had divine protection and under no circumstance should she change the oil.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Wow. My in-laws once owned a Cadillac Cimarron. Thankfully, they bought it used.

My aunt once owned a Pinto. She moved from Las Vegas to Washington DC and back again in that car. We visited her--in a record-breaking Las Vegas heat wave in August of 1977. Average day time temp. was 120 degrees, and her Pinto did not have air conditioning. And it could barely hold the giant stuff walrus I won at Circus Circus.

And I once drove (for a few months) a Chevy Vega. However, cars of such crapitude are loved when they are your first set of wheels.

 

[diaglo]

my sister, brother-in-law, and niece had to jump out of their pinto while it was still moving. it caught fire and exploded.

 

[Gizzard]

I can't believe no one else had the honor of owning a Volare. Maybe you have to be a certain age; ours was a '76 which probably means you have to be near 40 to have driven one.

Anyway, that quote on the website about taking all right turns to work is no joke; the Volare would stall if you looked at it wrong while it was cold. And by "cold" I don't mean "cold" like it is in Alaska. I mean "cold" like it is in Los Angeles in winter. Like 55 degrees. It's not like it wouldn't stall on a right turn either, it's just that you wouldn't stall diagonally across the intersection like you would on a left.

It got recalled three times during the first year we had it. It got taken back to the dealer several times to try and fix the stalling problem. (You couldn't fix it short of disconnecting the smog control device.) It's the sort of car that the Lemon Law was written about. It's also the car that turned my loyal, patriotic Chrysler-loving parents into Toyota owners.

 

[Impeesa]

Haha! I'm proud to say my first and so far only set of wheels is an '84 Honda Accord. Sure, it's getting a bit rusty.. but long after the whole body is rusted away and I'm just driving a frame with wheels and an engine... that engine will still run smooth. My grandma, who I got it from, told me she once met someone with the exact same car... except his had about 750,000 km on it, and the beast still ran.

--Impeesa--

 

[Thresher]

Man, so glad I dont own a US built car! Some of them are uglier than the back end of a bulldog.

 

[KDLadage]

Thresher: Man, so glad I dont own a US built car! Some of them are uglier than the back end of a bulldog.

You are joking, right?

 

[Thresher]

Nope.

But then again you do drive on the wrong side of the road, all the measurements are in some antique/arcane system that was cool in the 1800's and the steering wheel isnt where it should be. So youre excused for being a bit backward

Still, could be worse, you could have owned a Lada.
I remember the day they imported these quaint, eastern euro things and they sat on the docks for 11months while people went through them 1 by 1 changing things like seatbelts, headlights, the entire electrical loom and several other major structural deficientcies before being allowed near a road.
Of course, being stuck on a dock also caused them to rust, a lot by the time they hit the sales yards.

heh, then they got recalled a lot after that and lots of people selling them either went broke or left the country.

I saw one the other day, it was actually on the road and running, Im hoping to take my camera next time and get a photo of Elvis too. But, I do own 2 very nice cars, a very old and rare Ford 5.8L V8 coupe which sits sleeping until I can sell it, and a rice rocket I personally imported from Japan, which is very pretty and goes like a stung cat with a rocket up its bum.
Sadly both use so much fuel I will be personally financing Petrolium executives being able to roll in underage thai hookers well after retirement 30 years from now.

Buying a bad car in my family is seen as a sign of weakness and my kin would eat me.

 

[Maitre Du Donjon]

Damn had to be careful not to burst out laughing at work. Some commentaries make necessary the use of Depends. Read them quickly but my fave so far is "This car seems to be made from compressed rust".

Maitre D

PS: Never owned, driven, or ridden in any of those cars.