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| The 50 Worst Cars of All Time | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 1 2009, 07:39 PM (313 Views) | |
| George K | Dec 1 2009, 07:39 PM Post #1 |
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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 | Dec 1 2009, 07:51 PM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I don't know. It seems like anything at all innovative ended up on that list. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Rainman | Dec 1 2009, 09:05 PM Post #3 |
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Fulla-Carp
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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 | Dec 1 2009, 10:23 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Seems like it. The reviews are funny though. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| kenny | Dec 1 2009, 10:47 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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How did you manage that? Were you both skinny? |
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| kenny | Dec 1 2009, 10:57 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Not a single Japanese car on the list. |
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| Kincaid | Dec 1 2009, 11:49 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Klaus | Dec 2 2009, 01:43 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Ford T-Model? BMW 7series? De Lorean? Who made this list? Are they crazy? |
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 2 2009, 03:42 AM Post #9 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| bachophile | Dec 2 2009, 03:50 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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time magazine. same folks who made adolph man of the year in 1938. (this was not meant to invoke godwin...u may continue with comments in this thread) |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 2 2009, 04:01 AM Post #11 |
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MAMIL
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They clearly prefer boring clones to cars with character. They probably enjoy Kevin Costner movies too. |
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| Dewey | Dec 2 2009, 05:05 AM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| JBryan | Dec 2 2009, 05:33 AM Post #13 |
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I am the grey one
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Deuce and a quarter. Ghetto sled for short. |
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| Kincaid | Dec 2 2009, 11:28 AM Post #14 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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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| Steve Miller | Dec 2 2009, 07:38 PM Post #15 |
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Bull-Carp
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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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Wag more Bark less | |
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| Steve Miller | Dec 2 2009, 07:40 PM Post #16 |
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Bull-Carp
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In a previous life I drove the 1974 Oldsmobile version of that same car. Same motor, same boat-like ride.
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Wag more Bark less | |
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 2 2009, 08:20 PM Post #17 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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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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