Worst Car Ever

I had a 1980 Olds Cutlass diesel as my first car in 1988. There IMO has never been a bigger POS ever assembled. It was broken more days than it ran.
 
My step-father, for some strange reason, bought an early Renault Dauphine. Gas was about 25 cents a gallon, so the only advantage it had wasn't too important. The electrical systems and parts costs were awful, negating any fuel savings.
I had a Sunbeam Alpine, which has to rival the other British sports cars mentioned for electrical and mechanical futility. They raised unreliability to an art form on those cars. The main advantage was light weight, completely necessary when at least 50% of the time you had to push it and jump in to pop the clutch to get it started.
Don't despair, Hornius, your Karman Ghia is far superior to the cars on this list.
 
That list is pretty funny.

My favourite is the 1995 Ford Explorer, which the author uses as a scape goat for why Americans like big heavy SUVs. Sorry, but you can't blame the manufacturer for the appitite of the consumers.
Damn those Taco Bell's for creating a thirst for fast food that is awful for you! That is pretty terrible.

Also, when you look at the SUV's of the 1990's. The midsized ones anyway, they aren't really heavier than the BIG cars that Americans drove in the 1970s. It of course should be noted that given 20 years of technology they weren't any lighter either! But to say the 1995 Explorer is a bad car, or should be on this list is pretty bad logic, and downright wrong.
 
I think putting the Ford Explorer on there without putting its predecessor, the Ford Bronco, does a disservice. I had a Ford Bronco II, the "mini" version of a Ford Bronco. It ran well, but it was very, very tipsy, and you drove in constant fear of a sudden evasive maneuver which would roll you over.
 
Pacer and Gremlin would be at the top of my list for domestic, foreign would be the Yugo. My first car was a Pinto - good car I could work on myself, I had zero problems and it was stingy on gas - sold it before the gas tank problem came to light.
 
"The AMC Matador should be on there in addition to the Pacer."

Damnit, that was my pick.

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I give you the 1984 Ford EXP

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and the beautiful 1974 Mustang II

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My first vehical was a 1948 F-1 dually flat bed that I used to haul hay in. I swear, I actually went out on dates in it. Every now and then I would have to get out and crawl underneath it and hammer on the tranny to get it to go in gear. If I was lucky, I could talk my date into doing it.
 
That list sucks because it does not start and end with the Brat. From the very name, to the concept, to the car/truck/whatever the F it is itself. It had seats in the bed!!

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The worst car ever made was the Pinto. It was named the Pinto because Ford Motor company was afraid if they named it Piece O' Junk it might hurt sales. Just a terrible car. It has been over 30 years since I bought mine and to this day I will not drive a Ford
 
I nominated the Trabant for first place. This is closely followed by the Lada which is kind of the same. All the next ones on the list are also Commie cars. As bad as American cars have been there is no American car remotely as bad as cars like the Trabant.

As far as American cars, the worst ones were made in the early Seventies. They almost all sucked. They were responding to new air quality standards and the engineering wasn't there. Ten miles per gallon, no power and they still polluted. Those catalytic converters were ... well, I can't describe it. There aren't words for that. Then you had stuff like the aluminum engine on the Vega which blew up about the time the short warranty ran out. The Japanese would have never gotten a foothold if the cars didn't suck so bad everybody was fuming. If your nominee wasn't made in the early Seventies you don't know what a catalytic converter is.
 
The Chevette is right up there with the Vega.

On the AMC vehicles, might as well add the Hornet and Spirit.

One of the ugliest cars I have ever seen was a Maverick. One of my Dad's best friends owns a Ford dealerhip. He gave my Dad a loaner car in the mid-seventies to use while the family car was being serviced. My Dad shows up driving an orangy-Red colored Maverick that has side pipes and white racing stripes. It has big white lettering on the bottom of each side that says "Grabber". I wish I had a picture to post so it's ugliness could truly be appreciated.
 
.5) Any Dahatsu or Daiwoo

1) Any suzuki

2) Any Kia

3) Any Hyundai built pre 2000, and most built up till 2005

4) Pontiac Aztec, based upon looks alone

I take exception to the Exploder on the list, for the vast majority of owners, they were exceptional vehicles and there hundreds of thousands available on the used market still going strong with >100k miles on them.
 
My brother owned this piece of **** Plymouth Duster. God, what a horrible car. And sorry for the big picture. Don't know how to reduce it.

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