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The 50 Worst Cars of All Time
Topic Started: Dec 1 2009, 07:39 PM (313 Views)
George K
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http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1658545,00.html

Yeah, the Trabant is on the list - as is the AMC Pacer.
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Mikhailoh
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I don't know. It seems like anything at all innovative ended up on that list.
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Hey, those of you that love cars, click on the link. Fun to read the short dis reviews.

I was rearended driving in a Pinto. Lucky to be alive!
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Red Rice
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Mikhailoh
Dec 1 2009, 07:51 PM
I don't know. It seems like anything at all innovative ended up on that list.
Seems like it. The reviews are funny though.
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kenny
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Rainman
Dec 1 2009, 09:05 PM
I was rearended driving in a Pinto. Lucky to be alive!
How did you manage that? Were you both skinny?
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kenny
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Not a single Japanese car on the list.
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Kincaid
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There's a few exceptions there, and at least one air-cooled car from the first part of the century that could have been on the list. Obviously, they just chose 10 from each decade - and probably the real 50 worst cars of all time all happened before 1915.

One comment: I love the '71 Chrysler Imperial. Just love that big 60's and early 70's Detroit iron.
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Ford T-Model? BMW 7series? De Lorean? Who made this list? Are they crazy?
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Mikhailoh
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Me too, Kincaid. One of my favprite cars I had was a 71 Buick Electra 225 coupe. 455 engine, a true lead sled. The ride was sooo smooth.
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Klaus
Dec 2 2009, 01:43 AM
Ford T-Model? BMW 7series? De Lorean? Who made this list? Are they crazy?
time magazine.

same folks who made adolph man of the year in 1938.

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kenny
Dec 1 2009, 10:57 PM
Not a single Japanese car on the list.
They clearly prefer boring clones to cars with character. They probably enjoy Kevin Costner movies too.
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I expected to find my own vehicle listed, specifically: "Dewey's 2000 Ford Explorer."

I think that the reasoning for TIME's placing the '95 Explorer on the list was a telling indicator for the value of a lot of the rest of the list. It's one of the worst cars ever because... well, people really liked it. It had feautres that a huge segment of the consumer market actually wanted - instead of what the TIME editorial staff thought they *should* want and buy. Feh.

I'm in the midst of a hate-hate relationship with my own Explorer, but TIME's rationale here is just stupid.
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Mikhailoh
Dec 2 2009, 03:42 AM
Me too, Kincaid. One of my favprite cars I had was a 71 Buick Electra 225 coupe. 455 engine, a true lead sled. The ride was sooo smooth.
Deuce and a quarter. Ghetto sled for short.
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One of the cars I had the most fun driving was a 1962 Ford Sunliner (test drive several years ago). It's a hey look at me! car nowadays but it doesn't get the scorn as if I was driving a 60's Shelby Cobra clone or something like that.
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Klaus
Dec 2 2009, 01:43 AM
Ford T-Model? BMW 7series? De Lorean? Who made this list? Are they crazy?
The pegged the BMW correctly but for the wrong reason.

I-drive has nothing on the ultra-fragile, 50K miles if you're lucky, $10K to replace transmission.
Edited by Steve Miller, Dec 2 2009, 07:39 PM.
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Dec 2 2009, 05:33 AM
Mikhailoh
Dec 2 2009, 03:42 AM
Me too, Kincaid. One of my favprite cars I had was a 71 Buick Electra 225 coupe. 455 engine, a true lead sled. The ride was sooo smooth.
Deuce and a quarter. Ghetto sled for short.
In a previous life I drove the 1974 Oldsmobile version of that same car.

Same motor, same boat-like ride. :thumb:
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Mikhailoh
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Weren't they grand? The ride was exactly the same at 110 as it was at 55. Smooth as silk.
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