These are The WORST CARS EVER
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
- From commie cars to Camaro's that run zero to 60 in 20 seconds, history is full of absolutely terrible cars. So today we're going to take a look at some of the worst cars ever and see just what makes each one so terrible.
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I want to hear your thoughts. Which car is the worst?
hooo boyyy I have a whole bunch of possible candidates for horrible cars to choose from.
How about.....any Audi/Volkswagen with the 2L turbo 4 cylinder engine.
I have seen those on Scotty Kilmer's channel and he claimed that every single one of those he has ever worked on either burned oil or seized the engine.
ANY Nissan or Subaru with a CVT in it.
1st generation Toyota Prius because they tend to fry their generators and you have to buy basically an entirely new transmission for it when it does go.
Ford Contour. My family actually HAD one of these and it had a handful of issues and recalls, and it started having so many issues that mom desperately wanted a new car and so my parents literally bought a 2004 Toyota Highlander Limited Edition right off the lot and we still have it to this day, almost 20 years and 450K miles later.
Also my daily driven project car is up and running but not as well as it could be. Need to fix the ignition timing but since its still running on a mechanical distributor and a failed vacuum advance I have to have a shop service it because of rusted and stripped screws I can't remove myself.
Can’t believe the chevy vega wasn’t on here with their all aluminum engine. Love the car, but those factory engines sucked
E46 BMWs are one of the worst engineered cars I have ever seen. Oiling issues, cooling issues, rear sub frame issues, window regulator issues, VANOS issues, intake DISA valve, instrument cluster issues, front sway bar mounts ripping, the list goes on and on.
The research team worked on the what Camero check the history. The coke bottle was tested and I had two Corvair gen two. A 95/110/140. With the 140hp four carb mustangs stayed away from me.
Daf. they are like a knock off air cooled vw. (Think thin , pressed tin. ) The one I drove was. A 2 cylinder flat 2 . 26 hp when new.
Chevy Corvair’s are cool! The American Porsche! If it wasn’t for the book, it sold like crazy!
And it got a turbo before any porsche and any car in general. First turbo production car along with olds jet fire.
I want a turbo corvair so bad
Yes quite sad. GM got the bugs out of them when they redesigned it for 1965 but almost as soon as they did they said no more improving work was to be done on them so they knew they were eventually killing them.
the heating system was interesting
I have had five of them a 61 63 64x2 and a 1969
The reliant Robin is actually not easy to flip in fact top gear had to make theirs flip by altering the differential they're incredibly hard to flip
Pontiac had no right selling the Aztek! If Pontiac was General Motors performance division, they should have sold performance versions of all GM models. Excluding minivans and station wagons!
The Corvair would have developed into a great car or platform, if the natural progression had played out. But because of the scandal, we lost out on air cooled rear mounted engines.
The Pinto was statistically safer per mile than most subcompacts of the time.
The Reliant Robin wasn't actually that easy to flip, Jeremey Clarkson himself admitted the car was modified for the top gear segment so that it was super easy to flip over, the Donut channel has a video explaining everything, it's titled "Was Top Gear Wrong About These?" EDIT: just wanted to clarify the car might still be deserving of this list, 3 wheels and all, I just thought it was interesting top gear exaggerated the problem for profit.
They were popular in the UK not only because they were cheap, but they could also be registered and taxed and driven as motorcycles.
As a kid from the 60's and a teen in the 70's I remember all these, even the Ugo, unfortunately! I had 2 Pinto's, two different years, one a stick and one an auto. Preferred the stick but loved, yes loved, both. I agree with you on the design aspect and Ford's decision to do what they did. They took a risk and failed. I worked in a Radiator shop, pulling radiators and rebuilding them, we also repaired gas tanks so pulled many of them also and I can say that there were many cars of the era that were of the same design as the Pinto! The main reason to me that the Pinto like to flare up is there were so many of them sold, the odd were against Ford. At least that's the way I see it, I could be wrong but who really cares. Great Video, thanks.
The bugs in the Corvair were worked out by 1965 when they redesigned it. The Gremlin was often bought for gas mileage as very few other 1970-76 cars got more than 10-13 mpg in city traffic.
I haven't seen a Pontiac Aztek on the road in at least ten years or more.
Gremlins were cheap and not that good on fuel.
It’s story time in high school. One of my friends had a 5l 190hp iRoc Camaro with a five speed and I had a 1989 Firebird with the 2.8 L Renault V6 and I remember getting into it a drag race with him and he beat me to the quarter mile but we had 2 miles of straight away so when the car is topped out, he hit an electronic limiter at 110 miles an hour. Well my Reno powered Firebird pushed its way to 125 miles an hour passing him at the very end of the course he was so butt hurt about that it was fantastic
Waitwhat?? Renault 2.8 V6 in a Pontiac? No such animal. The 2.8 V6's found in GM cars was always a GM product, designed engineered and built by General Motors.
Many people didn't much care for the all-iron GM 2.8 V6 engine, not entirely sure just why, which in spite of the rhetoric had a good power-to-weight ratio even in its smoggiest variants. It was small and light enough for a healthy sort to carry one around (been there done that) if need be. I once carried one in my arms, picked up off an engine stand, out of the basement shop and across the patio to hang it on an engine hoist for installation in my sister's Camaro following an overhaul. Easy to work on and they respond well to mods. Later versions with more displacement and OHC heads made nearly 200hp. Even AMC used them in XJ Cherokees for a while, proved to be decent powerwise, and economical. Oh... and they ended up in Isuzu SUVs for a while as well. Give that little All-American V6 its due.
@@tonyunderwood9678the 2.8l in the Jeep was so bad that people swapped them out for the 2.5l 4 cylinder. They were absolutely gutless in the Jeep's with a carb and all the other wonderful 80's era emission control's. If they had used the injected version like found in Camaro's it would have been a different story, but the carbed 2.8l is DESPISED in the Jeep world.
To be honest, I never ever heard of ANYbody swapping out an iron 2.8 V6 for the 4 banger. Of course, it may just be that some people didn't know how to tweak the iron V6 to get the most out of it. I've had a couple of 'em and never had any problems. They ran OK and got decent mileage and were quite durable. I put a lot of miles on the one I had in an '85 XJ. Gutless? It's only 170 cubic inches so you can't expect it to do wheelstands. Use it for its intended purpose and hold a simple understanding of what it can and cannot do and you can get along with it just fine. Of course, sometimes there's just no pleasing some people... ;)
@@tonyunderwood9678 hey, if you could give me some advice on how to make more power with my 2.8 I would love that.
@@oler777 Start by desmogging it. Especially the EGR... as long as you can get away with it and you don't have requirements from your state legislators regarding smog tests. If the vehicle is over 25 years old it usually is dropped from smog test requirements. That's how it is in my state.
Had a Gremlin and two Yugos. The Gremlin was dead nuts reliable, but terrible in the snow and ice. The Yugos were used for off-road amusement and took a hell of a beating without a significant loss of function and performance.
My suggestion for the worst car in recent memory is the 2020 - 2023 Ford Police Interceptor Utility. When they first came out, delivery was seriously delayed for build issues, and when they were actually delivered, they came preloaded with recalls. The engines, transmissions, differentials, CV axles, electronics, switches, seats, and trim are all subject to continual failures, and they drive terribly. Ford really crapped the bed on this one.
Hard to lose function and performance when it doesn't have any.
Another Ford that had the one-piece steering shaft was the first gen Mustang, from 64-67 and then from 68-73 they utilized the two-piece assembly
They fixed the Gremlin by stuffing a V8 into it. 😀
You say you didn't want to put the Corvair on the list, and you shouldn't have. Here comes a few paragraphs on why(and yes I know the video is 3 months old, I just like educating people on the actual history of the Corvair.)
Yes the Corvair had a swing axle design(from 1960-1964), but the swing axle was not the sole reason why the car would flip. It is driver and mechanic error. With the rear engine design you needed more tire pressure in the rear and less in the front, but owners did not pay attention to that detail and neither did the technicians who worked on it. So the tires were filled with equal pressure all around and that caused the car to flip under heavy suspension loads with the 1960-63 model, which something similar would happen to the VW Beetle as well cause it used a swing axle too. The 64 model had a sway bar installed which greatly reduced the possibility of if it rolling over. 65-60 had independent rear suspension and completely eliminated the possibility of rolling over.
You also mentioned Ralph Nader, as does everyone else. Nader's allegations against the 1960-63 Corvair that it was "Unsafe at Any Speed" was false. He was proven wrong in 1972 by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration. In the abstract of the 140 page report, it states "The handling and stability performance of the 1960-1963 Corvair does not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or rollover and it is at least as good as the performance of some contemporary vehicles both foreign and domestic" Thats only a portion of it, but you get the idea.
And for the collapsible steering column, it wasn't mandatory for vehicles to have them until 1968, the Corvair had it as an option in 66. So if you're going to talk about being impaled by a steering column, might as well include almost every car prior to 68.
The Corvair isn't a bad car, not saying it is perfect, but it has its appeal.
Imagine the Robin on the interstate going 80mph? Talk about white knuckle!
Aaaaa you got the Corvair story completely wrong. Oversteer? not when the tires were inflated properly. Handing was very good otherwise. Nothing wrong with swing axles see Porsche 356. What did kill it was oil leaks caused by the pushrod tubes leaking because they were right next to the exhaust manifolds cooking the seals. This made the heater unusable with oil fumes in the heater air. Can easily be fixed with new viton seals.
The IRS fix to the Corvair made it a nice car. Air cooled flat six (sound familiar?) and the Gen 2s were beautiful. But with A/C they were prone to overheating -- why is why you get the convertible. The Gremlin was quirky cool in it's own way -- and later models were available with some pretty beefy engines. Also, coolest gas cap ever.
The Corvair was not unique with the dangerous steering column. ALL cars had a non collapsible steering column prior to 1967. That was the cause of many deaths.
The truly depressing part is that all of these cars could have been just another car or even a good one, but for each one they managed to find a way to make them worthy of lists like this. At least we got lessons on how not to make cars.
malcom bricklin was also responsible for subaru's presence in the united states, probably the most successful thing he did, in a career of mostly failures
The Aztek concept car was kind of cool, but it was HEAVILY diluted when forced onto the minivan chassis at a price point
The Aztek wouldn't gotten all that hate if it wasn't for the double stack hood! Pontiac in my opinion should have never gotten the Aztek in the first place.
I disagree about the AZTEK, I thought it look fantastic including the interior, looked like the cockpit of an airplane
@@InBrz Are you high? It's typical 90's GM fischer-price plastic interior
Yep, you picked some good ones. The Chevy Corvair was an interesting car. I had a '62 Monza with an automatic, so it had the swing axle suspension. I didn't have any particular problems with driving it. The car went through mud and sand quite well. I understand that there is or was a rear sway bar for the swing axle suspension. The '64 had some improvements in the suspension that helped a lot, but the big improvement was the independent suspension ('65-'69). The real problems I noticed was oil leaks from the seals on the pushrod tubes, and the valve covers. My friend had one that a valve seat popped out of one head. The biggest problem was that people did not understand the handling of the car. They expected it to handle like a front engine, rear wheel drive car. Ralph Nader had it in for that car and American car makers in general. His main attack about the handling of a Corvair was based on a test track film where a Ford Falcon followed a Corvair. They showed how the Corvair would spin out on curves, but the Falcon didn't. Oh, never mind that the film was made by FORD! The old VW Beatle had the same problems and more, but he didn't mention anything about them. I'd buy another Corvair if I had the time and space for one. 4-banger Camaro: The "Iron Duke" 4 cylinder was designed by Pontiac to replace the horrible Vega engine in the small GM cars. When they put a throttle body fuel injection on it in '84, it raises the horsepower to 92 from 85. One of those powered my 1984 Chevy Citation with a 3 speed automatic, and it got around OK. However, a Citation weighed 2,400 pounds, and a Camaro weighed 3,200 pounds. I can't imagine how slow those are. Pontiac Aztec: A GM executive said that the Pontiac lineup looked like a bunch of "Angry Kitchen Appliances". It was a very versatile car, but that front end in particular was really ugly. The Gremlin was weird looking, but X-V8 was a screamer. It also had a great suspension package to make it handle. I'd take one. Yugo GV: A Fiat design (crap engineering) and communist era Yugoslavian craftsmanship (the factory slogan must have been "Who cares?). The dealer in Las Vegas marketed them as an alternative to buying a used car, then just scrap it when you are done. Prowler: A niche retro car that had a very limited market. Not something you would drive every day. Pinto: The top bolt on the differential cover of the hatch back would puncture the gas tank. A small metal shield was produced aftermarket that would fix the problem. Ford refused to fix the problem. That's quite half-assed. The station wagons and sedan delivery cars (metal side station wagon) did not have this problem. Taken care of, a Pinto would last. My step-mother had one that had over 500,000 miles on it when she sold it, and it still ran great! Reliant Robin: It was made so that someone with a motorcycle license, which is easier to get in the UK, can drive a car. This, however, was changed with typical British bureaucracy making it quite complicated where the end result was that you had to have a car driver's license. I have seen outrigger wheels added to them that looked about like bicycle training wheels. Considering that these cars have a top speed of 65mph to 85mph, driving one could be the ultimate thrill ride.
The early Corvairs actually required a different tire pressure front to rear. 24 and 16 psi iirc. Owners and gas stations who knew better just inflated everything to 24
My favorite fact about the iron duke Camaro is that the 2.5l was advertised as the base engine for the car from 1982-1986. In 1986 Chevy built exactly zero iron duke cars. The option was dropped for the 1987 model year.
I think the prowler is an awesome car, it just needs a manual transmission and maybe an ls swap, it would look pretty cool with the headers coming out the side of car like the old hot rods did.
My buddy had a Ford Pinto and it is a pretty fun car to drive and ride in.
One of my drill instructors in basic drove a Yugo every day. When the troops made fun of it, he said, "that car is how my friends get to the parts store."
I judge working on cars a different way I judging by how much working room they have underneath the hood
Nice list! I was waiting for the Ford Fiesta though.😏
Can’t do it 😭 loved my Fiesta ST too much 😂
I had 2 lemons you didn’t mention Volkswagen Rabbit and Mercury Lynx in 1980s 💩
I own a Corvair. It is a great collector car, awesome engineering. NO, NO, NO, it's handling was great. The 60-64 just wasn't as good as the '65-69. Killer steering columns were common until safety regulations went into affect. The Chevy Vega should be number one on the list. Engine was toast by 40,000 miles, the body rusted in three years in the rust belt. And everything else was unreliable and was the build quality.
Prowler does not belong on this list. It was a concept car they never expected to put into production. It set the trend for all manufacturers to begin creating retro modern cars.
Oh, come on the prowler only needed a new engine, transmission, rear end and suspension and then it would’ve been great automobile
Getting out of one was very difficult.
Again, you forgot the Chevy Vega. Mine had an engine that needed to be rebuilt every 30,000 miles. The slogan was "Fill up the oil and check the gas". But then again it only had a 10 gallon gas tank but didn't get very good mileage. I cannot believe you keep missing this car as one of the worst, EVER.
The Vega was a bad car. It was the first car I remember my mother had. I never liked it and never will.
Chevy Vega’s are absolutely amazin’ soooooooo
@@traciweisenbachCITB What have you been smoking? The Vega was one of the worst cars ever made(the Yugo and Pinto/Bobcat were worse).
@@johnnymason2460< The cars were good minus the engine.
@@melrose9252 The Cosworth Vega had a hand built 2 liter engine which was signed off by the man who built it. Emission standards stifled its racing potential.
I also like the Corvair. Especially the 1965-1969 models. In particular I like the convertible models. The 164 inch 4 carb models. A little extra oomph for the money.
I also like the AMC Gremlin. I think AMC did a marvelous job building a reliable but unusual automobile.
Corvairs are actually great cars, all the “issues” were greatly exaggerated and they did not crash easy. It was all BS, I wish they were more available.
The prowler was ok. The problem is it came out before the hemi, the 3.5 was all aluminum and made more hp than Chrysler's v8 engines at the time. The 4 speed auto was sluggish. Had they offered a 6 speed manual it would've been a little bit better. The Prowler was still decently quick though thanks to its all aluminum construction.
the iron duke F body DID come with a manual, my neighbor had a pristine 1984 iron duke firebird with a manual and he sold it not too long ago.
it was a bad pony car, not a bad car. not unreliable, just a horrid camaro or firebird
I had the 84 Camaro with the LG4 low output 5.0L. It was a shit box with 150 HP. Looked cool, but it was so slow. I can't imagine driving my Camaro with an iron Duke 4 banger. What a nightmare!
Tied for first place: Olds 5.7 Diesel pre-DX block and Cadillac 4100. That drove a bunch of people to the Germans and they never came back.
And the Japs!
I liked the Aztec from the get-go. There's no reason I wouldn't get one.
You had me at commie car lol. But the corvair was a really good car and it was actually safe. unconventional sure but still safe. The "unsafe at any speed" was a stupid book written by a hater who did or used terrible rigged experiments on the poor car and labeledmit unsafe. It was used as a scapegoat to make car manufacturers take safety more seriously, which was okay at the time (except for the scapegoat) but now this safety thing has gone too far and has made cars dull and miserable to drive.
That last one collared me up😢
The GREMLIN could be made into a hotrod
I remember seeing one at the dragstrip with a 350 in it flying down the track and the back hatch flew up like a wing !
both shocked & surprised that the AMC pacer wasn't listed
the pinto is the most beautiful exterior compact car design in america by far
Yugo should be number one on this list. Underpowered, you had to floor it with two passengers, first gear useless, would not go into gear and would melt stuck into gear and you'd have to yank hard to get it to shift, clutches broke all the time, starters gave out constantly, never aligned right, gas cap would not come off at all sometimes, no glove compartment, no tinted glass, engine would dis engage, 50 horse power made it very under powered, light bulbs burned out, door releases were held on with a paper clip and snapped off while new, same with window cranks all broke off cheap thin plastic, car would shake violently on a dirt road, would roll back on hills, would struggle on inclines or not even go up hills, poor gas mileage, cardboard door cards had bents, interior fading when new, rear hatch single strut never once would work to hold gate up, paint peeling on lower trim, engines at 30,000 plus thousand miles would break if the timing belt wasnt replaced prior, most did not make it to 20,000 miles before being given up on, in the shop all the time, childrens toys are made better and more durable, it was a very nervous ride, afraid it wouldn't get you to where you were going without something failing, speakers cracked day one, radio knobs fell off, never found station, and ate cassette tapes, oh but you had ashtrays in a era where few people smoked anymore in their cars, fought and lost to wind on highways, sporadic single signal indicator. Many were abandoned on the side of the road. They were not meant to last past the intial sale at the dealership, it was only made to appear as a car so it could be sold. It was a socialist car, not communist, I believe the workers paid a dollar an hour, didn't care about making it well and sabotaged the ones first sent here to the US
I learned how to drive a standard transmission in a Yugo. We weren't commies we were just poor. 😂😂😂
People forgot to mention that the Yugo was manufactured by Zastava an arms manufacturer not a car manufacturer.
Both the Ford Mustang and the Chevy Camaro came with 4 cylinders as standard. Both were slow. But the Camaro was the slowest AND it just felt like junk.
With regards to the pinto almost all rodders use mustang two slash pinto front suspension the pinto had bigger brgs.and rear axels than 1/2 ton Chevy had and ever Chevy truck from 1957-75 only had one piece of outside sheet metal on the box to shield the gas tank which was then on the outside of the frame funny g.m didn't show results of those being hit with a heavy vehicle w/rocket moters to make sure there was ignition! To fix the pinto they hyfax shield under the tank straps but Ford did fix them at no cost to owners
The Chevy Vega should have been on this list. It was the competition for the Pinto and Gremlin. It was the worst of the bunch. It rusted quickly even in the South. And the aluminum engine was famous for smoking like a mosquito truck at low mileage. If they ever overheated, they were toast. By the way, they overheated easily because the radiator was too small.
VW beetle, Mercedes 300 gullwing all had the same suspension as the corvair…
The overuse of the word literally is a plague.
The robin, in fact, was pretty hard to tip over despite the cars unique design.
It’s been documented that producers at Top Gear placed heavy weights in the car in order for it to tip. This was done for entertainment purposes.
The car is a pretty cheap vehicle to get around in although values are climbing up due to rarity. The last ones were made in 2002.
The Gremlin wasn’t really that bad. It was simply butt ugly. However, it sold well. I saw a lot of them running around when I was a kid and teenager.
The Hummer H2. It made GM crash and burn by 2009 and it got worse fuel economy than a semi.
The best place to be near an Aztek is driving one.
That way you don't have to look at it. :)
(That said, I drove one for about a month while looking for a new vehicle. I was surprised by how much get-up-and-go it had- they're surprisingly quick. And interior accommodations are actually quite nice. I honestly think it's only sin is just being hideous.)
GM 3.6 makes it poopoo
I mostly agree with your assessment, disagreeing only with the Gremlin. The Front suspension was actually heavier than needed, as to save money, they used the suspension on the Hornet, which was also the suspension used on the Rebel and Matador. The rear was identical to the Hornet also. It was the short wheelbase that caused them to spin out easily. Family members had the Gremlin and got well over 200,000 trouble free miles in them. A rarity for that period of history, When most of our other cars were junk at between 60,000 and 80,000 miles regardless of care and maintenance. Also if you wish I can relate a very funny tale about a Yugo. I was driving home from two weeks of offshore work in my 85 Jeep Cherokee. In the lane next to me was a Yugo. A trash truck pulled in front of us and two empty cardboard containers that a washer and dryer were shipped in flew out the back. Neither of us could stop in time and each hit one box. The box I het with my brush guard and winch in front simply flew off into the swamp on that side of the road. I pulled over to check for damage. Other than a few pieces of cardboard stuck to the brush guard, I had none. The Yugo pulled behind me, with his box still impaled on his front end. I went over to help him remove the box, only to find that he had more problems than just the box stuck to him. Underneath his car was a growing puddle of fluids, a mixture of oil and antifreeze. We pulled tje bpx away to reveal massive damage to the front end. The front grill and radiator were shoved back into the engine. the Fenders were embedded in the front tires, and for some reason the oil pan was leaking oil. His car was undriveable and I drove him to hte next town where he could call for help and inform his insurance company what happened. I never found out the final outcome, though my past experience with dealing with wrecked cars told me that the Yugo was history.
the corvair is a great car. its just not understood. a great sport car.
Terrible cars like 3rd Gen Camaros make for cheap cars to modify for racing.
Another Commie Car straight out of Cold War era East Germany is the Trabant...it's laughable from the way it looks to how underpowered it was (26 HP!). I know it wasn't US built but I was expecting to see it in this video.
Anyone who considers the Pontiac Aztec to be the worst-looking car ever built has never seen a SsangYong Rhodius or the Noughties iteration of the Fiat Multipla. The latter was designed by Chris Bangle who also nearly bankrupted BMW by designing a series of cars for them that shared a common attribute, i.e. appearing as if the Trunk Lid Team first met the Body In White Team at the product launch. Peter “I designed the McLaren F1, you know…” Stevens is also responsible for several horrors, not least his reprehensible “facelifts” of the MG Rover lineup. Beauty is admittedly in the eye of the beholder but butt-ugly hubris is deserving of widespread ridicule.
Those other vehicles are ugly(no doubt about that). But the Aztek was ugly and sold here(the others weren't).
The Pinto thing is a myth! Statistically it was no worse than any other car in its class at that time. The numbers are skewed a bit because there were so many on the road. It's all hype because of the leaked information. And, the Reliant Robin rolling on Top Gear was staged! Jeremy Clarkson quote, "Jeremy Clarkson Admits Top Gear's Reliant Robin Rollovers Were Completely Rigged"
You need to do some actual research before claiming this bullshit.
A friend had one in School in 1980 and it was a Bomb of Blue Smoke!
My cousin and I turned 16 and I got a fiero and he got a yugo. It's safe to say our boomer parents wanted us dead lol
Aztec, did you forget about the multipla
When I was a kid the Prowler was one of my favorite cars
I got a 20 second car.
Is that 60 or quarter mile?
Yes.
Imagine if the prowler lived to see the SRT big power wave.
You're missing the Chevy Vega.....rust bucket with TERRIBLE oil guzzling engines.
Gremlin was at least a real car overall, with a real engine, trans, etc..
I knew some people that had a Yugo, they were cheap and got you from point a to point b. And that was it, when you’re done with it you throw it away.
the first Yugos in the US did not get you to point B, they often gave out.
You should have included the Trabant.
Good video, but what are you constantly looking at to camera right? Are we missing something?
I Worked with a Guy who Drove to work in One in early 1990s It used A quart of oil in 20 Miles! I saw one last year on a road in Mint Condition! It Smoked like a Bar Hag on Friday night!
the corvair should not be on this list
First off I agree about the Aztec, unfortunately it look like every small suv on the road today and truthful if it was released a few years later, it wouldn't have a bad rap.
Now for my gripe. You ever hear of the Audi "5000" aka the Audi 100. It was so over hyped, due to rappers, but sooooo bad. And that is why it should be on the list. there was a saying "I'm Audi 5000". It because the car would just go into reverse randomly.
ALL AUDI's are complete JUNK, JUNK for stoopid people
CORVAIR engines make good Dunebuggy and aircraft engines
Where is Fiat multipla and peel p50?!
The Renault LeCar, Hyundai excel (at what?), anything amc, etc
I’m actually taking my slow ass car to get the engine rebuilt and turbod this summer
The Yugo was not the worst car I've ever driven. And while it came from communist Yugoslavia it was actually a license-built variant of the Fiat 128 so its overall suckiness started in Italy first. My sister had a 4-cylinder Ford Fairmont and it was slower. Merging was terrifying. The Yugo was the worst manual transmission I've ever driven. No real feedback other than the tach as to what gear you're in. I nominate the 81 Chevy Citation I owned as one of the worst ever built. Slow, unreliable, engineered by idiots, hard to work on, etc. What kind of company puts metric and English bolts on the same part?! Or publishes a shop manual for the dealer service departments that came with incorrect codes? I did just drive a 23 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited and was appalled by nearly every aspect of it. The engine was buzzy and weak, the ergonomics weren't, and the fit and finish felt very disposable. I just can't see how that thing's MSRP was 44K.
Poor amc they tried to stay ahead of everyone else but didnt have the recources to make a reliable engine
The AMC engines were great !! They continued life in Jeeps long after AMC was gone. The inline-6 AMC became the vaunted 4.0 Jeep engine that most loved …
Forgot the Pontiac fiero. Also the Ford exp. Just terrible.
My 1983 f150 with it's 90hp 300 6 is faster than that Camaro and the low HP 305s paired with autos lol
The prowler and the chevy SSR both look like cartoon cars that came to life and they are both dumb. I would take the prowler over the SSR if I had to choose. The corvair was not that bad and was a victim of a smear campaign. The Corvair truck/van is rad.
Ah cmon man why you gotta do the iroc-z like that
Thanks. Your characterization of some of these cars is a bit overly pessimistic. First of all the gremlin which I owned myself. Not a pretty face but very reliable and roomy in comparison with the pinto and the Vega. Interior fit and finish was abysmal. Next is the Pinto. I owned 3 of these cars and although it’s looks were only what a mother could love they were a very snappy performer with great reliability. Finally the Vega. Well it was the best looking of the three but was a dog motor wise. That lump bouncing around and rattling under the hood even when new, destroyed the car’s appeal. Also the doors hinges were welded to the body with no provision to adjust them. Who was the clown who thought that engine was a good idea?
the CAMERO??? what???
The Aztec actually looks better after the crash test.
My grandma had a comie car and she said it sucked
Has anybody ever said that you look like MrBallen UA-camr. Striking similarity.
I dream of owning a 2gn corvair corsa with the turbo motor
Saw a turbo corvair at cars and coffee, what a amazing piece of car very ahead of its time
Triumph TR7
OK... you REALLY need to do your homework on Corvairs. The vast majority of cons about Corvairs is simple bullsh!t. I've owned Corvairs, early and late models, driven a LOT of miles in them. My favorite is a 1960 4-door, "reportedly" the worst. Drives fine and I trust it. Drive it like you have common sense and you won't have any troubles with it. Innovative, imaginative design, rock solid engine (a lot of Corvairs running around today have engines that have never been apart, like the engine in my '60 4-door), and solid construction. "Hard to drive"??? The Corvair is an extraordinarily easy car to drive, light steering and good road feel, and there are lots of them still around, primarily because of a following that includes an international club organization dedicated to the Corvair (CORSA). Add to this a pedigree from the NHTSA which actually proved the Corvair was safe after so much nonsense got thrown around about the car, and yeah I mean NONSENSE.
Now: What's wrong with a Gremlin? Had one of those too, a Gremlin-X, scarce 304 V8 variant, disk brakes, orange with the hockeystick stripe down the sides. Never did anything wrong, easy to drive, handled fine. Quirky looks, good performance, a brother also had one. I'd own another if I could turn one up that's affordable, after seeing what sort of money they're bringing these days.
Next: DO NOT get me started about Pintos. Had one of those two, mine was yellow, had the plastic condom on the gas tank and the extended filler tube, and I worried about nothing driving it. Take a GOOD LOOK at the few crash tests they did with Pintos. "Low speed collisions"...? The impacting vehicles were retired civil service barges weighing over 4000 lbs, and the "low speed collisions" required to actually rupture a Pinto tank had to exceed 40 mph to do do, and even then the "test experts" had to mount incendiary devices on the bumpers of the impacting vehicles and fill the Pinto tanks to the brim and leave the gas cap OFF before testing, and even then many times the Pinto refused to catch fire. To smack one hard enough to make it catch fire in the real world you needed to clobber the car hard enough to crush it and kill the occupants outright, making any fire kinda moot.
The number of deaths by fire alone, in Pinto accidents, according to accident studies and tech papers from the NHTSC: 27
The Ford Panther platform cars (Crown Vics/Merc Marq/Lincoln towncar) killed over 100 by fire (at last count ten years ago). First generation Mustangs also burned over 100 occupants. Which cars are more dangerous in a rear ender? Oh, and I also had a Yugo GVX, great little car, had fun in it, somebody came along and offered over three times what I had in it so I sold it, now wish I hadn't and I'd happily own and drive another. The Yugo is an example of how if you treat a car like a piece of crap, it becomes a piece of crap. Treat an M series BMW like crap, it becomes crap. Yugos never got any respect.
At this point in the video I stopped watching seeing as how it was obvious that the cars I spoke about were simple "me too" punching bags, undeservedly denigrated for the sake of attracting clicks...and the rest of the cars were likely gonna be subjected to the same "me too" bashing via rhetoric and hearsay and outright misinformation. YMMV. Drive safely.
Pretty tired of these “worst cars ever” video. Ragging on 30-40 year old cars with zero acknowledgment of the culture, political/regulatory environment and technology being used at the time they were born out of. Car technology is moving so fast anything 15+ years old is pretty bad compared to what’s coming out. I find most modern cars pretty boring. So I love the old oddball cars. Even if they can’t compare to todays standards they have far more personality.
Will agree the pinto tank was a bad design for sure. Similar issues with the first fieros they were pretty prone to spontaneously combusting.
I grew up in the 90's, and personally witnessed 2 pintos burn to the ground
I watched an 81 Buick Electra hit a Pinto in rear at what looked to be 35mph+. There was no fire or fuel leak. I helped a young lady and her two kids get out asap. I really think the press may have overplayed it a bit just like the GM side Seattle tanks.
Those Corvair, runs on a flat-6, rear enegine, turbocharged, litraly a Chevy 911 930, even Shelby like that, and looks NICE
AMC Gremlin, it had a V8, just the same as the Jevalin, like a hathcback muscle, kill me, i see its nice
About the Hugo, im a Commumisit, my country is Commumisit, but i aint no defend it, its just a cheap Sh!tbox, almost the same equivilent as a honda Civic, but worse
Trabant
Ive never heard the yugo called the commie car. Aztek looks 100x better than any crossover /suv for sale today. How are you speaking for "boomers "? Your sweeping generalizations of an entire age group are disturbing
Any brand new car.