I like old fords, can't say I'm big on the new stuff 🤣. The Maverick is a joke, the mach e mustang thing is a joke, the new lightning is a POS. The timberline "off-road" editions are a joke too.With that username you should live in this thread.
I like old fords, can't say I'm big on the new stuff 🤣. The Maverick is a joke, the mach e mustang thing is a joke, the new lightning is a POS. The timberline "off-road" editions are a joke too.With that username you should live in this thread.
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This thread has me thinking about making a mechanics PSA thread with the cars to avoid or what to expect from the ones you already have, but dang that would be a long list.
Pontiac Aztek
IMO considered to be the worst car ever made.
Hahahahaha, I've owned 3 on that list at one time or another.Oh, geeze...
The only "bad" thing the Aztek had going for it was it's stupid design, and that only from the *ss-end view. For it's time, it at least had comparably decent power and performance, and the interior was pretty good for its time as well. The wheels were a bit small, a product of the frame they decided to build it on (minivan), but given it's size it wasn't a killer. Had the back end been styled differently, it wouldn't have had such a sh***y reputation.
I'll stick to just American vehicles here, since foreign vehicles are an entirely different class:
Mustang II. A total embarassment to the namesake. This is the Plan 9 From Outer Space of cars, except the movie was at least so bad it's worth watching simply because it's so bad. The Mustang II was a parental punishment for their piece of s*** kid who wanted a Mustang for their first car.
Pinto. Holy cow, words fail me.
Gremlin. The junkyard couldn't keep up with just the door handles for this car.
Maverick/Comet. JHFC, Ford.
Pacer. Round off the edges of a turd and this is what you get. Kinda like the Gremlin, only uglier.
Chevette. Because Chevrolet just douldn't be left out of the contest for the worst piece of s*** ever produced by an American car company.
Sunbird. Because the Pontiac division of GM couldn't allow Chevrolet to go into this competition uncontested.
Cimarron. Because even Cadillac decided a transvestite verson of the Chevy Cavalier would be a great contestant in the "Let's see how low we can go" competition.
Vega. Style-wise, this car could have definitely made it because it was sharp looking for its time. But GM evidently was handing out cash incentives to their automotive engineers to figure out ways to mass produce the most f***-ups ever in the cheapest way possible while making it look good. Look good, that is, until the metal under the body paint rusted completely away, exposing one of the cr*ppiest engines ever built in a vehicle which literally had problems keeping the wheels from falling off. In fact, the entire front end of the first prototype literally came apart from the rest of the car EIGHT MILES INTO THE GM PROVING GROUND. If people thought the Pinto was dangerous enough, being prone to gas tank fires from rear-end collisions, GM apparently decided to one-up Ford by providing a 2-barrel carburator option that would cause backfires so violent the muffler would split, blowing hot air on the fuel tank, causing it to expand, burst, and ignite. Who needs to be in an actual rear-end collision?
These vehicles are merely samples of an era of American cars which was so bad it has it's own name: the Malaise Era. It was an era where America could take the only world class sports car produced in the country (Corvette) and turn it into an underpowered turd bag with a 350 cubic inch engine that produced less horsepower and crappier 0-60 and 1/4 mile times than my old 2005 LeSabre with a 3.8 L engine (183 cubic inches).
It was an era where the answer from every American car company to the energy crisis was "put a POS small engine in every car we make". It was an era where vehicles practically came with pre-rusted body panels. It was an era where the patriotic cry of "Be American, Buy American" was the answer to people people buying more foreign cars because they were sick and tired of buying American cars they had to work on all the time...not "Hey, how about we build some cars that are actually worth a s***?"
It was an era where, year after year Ford would advertise their shoebox shaped pickup as "more aerodynamic than ever", even though you could literally replace any body panel from another Ford truck within a spread of several years of that model because they were virtually identical.
The only reason why trucks didn't have a worse reputation than cars back then was the fact that pickups were primarily viewed as work horses and not the glorified passenger cars many people see them as today. So who cared if they looked like s*** after a couple years of being rained on?
Hahahahaha, I've owned 3 on that list at one time or another.
Anything Fiat made or collaborated with in any way shape or form.
Lol!!!
I owned a 73 maverick with a 302 & factory 4 speed. Fast as hell but weak front suspension.
Also a 73 Gremlin with a 304 that would burn the rear tires to the bursting point.
A 74 Pinto with a 302 auto $ factory air. Very dangerous vehicle on wet or snowy roads.
Bought an 82 Pacer for a winter rat with a 258 straight 6 that I rear ended a 83 Monte Carlo at about 75 mph. The Monte rode home on a rollback but the ugly ass Pacer was driven home the next day after replacing the radiator in KFC parking lot.
Yes the mid to late 70’s were terrible when it comes to cars and the 80’s were even worse.
REAL dumb trend, 100%Almost as dumb as the squatted trucks
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We had a 76 AMC gremlin, canary yellow, manual 3-speed. It was passed down to me, it's what I drove in high school, college, and until...1994 (I think) when I bought a new car. I despised it. rebuilt the carb I don't know how many times. Had to spray ether in to get it to start half the time.
Crazy thing is, I would love to have it now, just to tinker and play.
I reamed his butt out with a drill and mounted him on my hood
Friends had these...butPinto. Holy cow, words fail me.
Vega. Style-wise, this car could have definitely made it because it was sharp looking for its time. But GM evidently was handing out cash incentives to their automotive engineers to figure out ways to mass produce the most f***-ups ever in the cheapest way possible while making it look good. Look good, that is, until the metal under the body paint rusted completely away, exposing one of the cr*ppiest engines ever built in a vehicle which literally had problems keeping the wheels from falling off.
Friends had these...but
One had a "Hunger Orange" Pinto 302-V8, Tubbed and Auto. Big Fat Tires under it. Street Car that sucker flew.
Another had a Pearl White Vega SB Chevy, Auto, Tubbed and that thing flew
Both of them were all over the road if you "nailed" it, with street tires
Anybody remember Motion Performance Big Block Vega's
-Snoopz
I don't know, she could be fun. Or an absolute trainwreck.
Hey — I had a Vega wagon. — it was slightly special that took a GM insider to approve the build sheet.In the mid-70's my dad bought a brand new Chevy Vega. It rained the day he bought it and it rusted out on the drive home.
What in the blue blazes is that on the front of the Fiat? Tool trays for Tony to fix it again?
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I don't see this happening on that Fiat.wickerbill will rip your front fascia off at about 180-185.
Yeah those quick release rubber bands should hold the fascia on. 🤣I don't see this happening on that Fiat.
It’s called a wicker bill, and it’s as dumb as it looks. Basically a fake front spoiler for increased downforce.
I spend a lot of time at car shows and races for my work. Show car people put crap on their cars they think makes it look fast, while fast cars only have what they need on them.
The wickerbill is the perfect example of this. Ask a show car guy why he has one, it’s for downforce. Ask any mile racer (highest MPH at the top of a mile) and they’ll tell you that a wickerbill will rip your front fascia off at about 180-185.
Jeep= JUST EMPTY EVERY POCKETTo me, this falls in that "I-own-a-Jeep-so-I-must-buy-EVERYTHING" category.
Sadly, a lot are there. Thankfully there's some folks like Qball, and others, who are not and have theirs just looking right. No stupid crap like a hood scoop that, lets be real, is not functional