manolith.com— Below is a list of the 20 most disastrous cars, in chronological order, and what about them made them terrible investments.
May 26, 2009View in Crawl 4
Have you ever been in a Yugo? I have. It's gotta be the WORST car ever made. You know that really cheap plastic that is very rigid, but turns white when you bend it? The whole f**king interior of the car is made of it. And all of the seams rub on each other when you drive it, so all you hear is squeaking while you drive.But the handling... it's awesome! Or at least as awesome as you can get with 12" wheels. I didn't know anyone even made 12" tires, but apparently they do, or at least did. Today, I think if you needed tires for a Yugo, you'd have to resort to buying some small trailer tires for the thing. I doubt any major manufacturers have anything for it.
Didn't the Volare have the slant 6 in it? The car itself may have been crap, but that slant 6 would run perfectly for half a million miles with only regular oil changes.
The 350 diesel (5.7) had a specifically designed block for diesel operation, but GM as usual, decided to cut costs and used the old Rocket 350 head bolts and bolt patten, which weren't up to the task of 22.5:1 compression ratio. They also didn't use a water separator on the fuel systems, which severely reduced the life of seals and gaskets...as well as caused some bad oxidation on the 70's metals used in the engine. The water from the diesel would corrode the head gasket, then head bolts and cause the head gaskets to fail completely....Immense compression would try to compress water and coolant that entered the engine's cylinders from the blown head gasket causing bad things to happen to the block. Also...dealers and mechanics had no clue how to work on diesels and often reused the old, stretched head bolts causing failure soon after being installed. This engine pretty much doomed the notion of American diesel passenger cars in the US for a long time.
The only real complaint I heard about the Aztek was the split in the rear window that happened to be right in your line of site when you were using your rear view mirror. Otherwise it was an extremely capable minivan/suv crossover at a time when minivans were one of the most popular vehicles out there. If they had stayed truer to the concept it probably would have done extremely well.
The Iron Duke was a tank of an engine but a poor match with the camaro. It had decent HP for the time and a ton of torque for a 4 banger. You could not kill it with out really trying.Just like the 2.3 mustangs it was a light P/U engine to begin with, it had no buisness being in a sports car.
haikufuMay 27, 2009
Have you ever been in a Yugo? I have. It's gotta be the WORST car ever made. You know that really cheap plastic that is very rigid, but turns white when you bend it? The whole f**king interior of the car is made of it. And all of the seams rub on each other when you drive it, so all you hear is squeaking while you drive.But the handling... it's awesome! Or at least as awesome as you can get with 12" wheels. I didn't know anyone even made 12" tires, but apparently they do, or at least did. Today, I think if you needed tires for a Yugo, you'd have to resort to buying some small trailer tires for the thing. I doubt any major manufacturers have anything for it.
haikufuMay 27, 2009
Didn't the Volare have the slant 6 in it? The car itself may have been crap, but that slant 6 would run perfectly for half a million miles with only regular oil changes.
haikufuMay 27, 2009
Driving around in a Prowler is like trying to attack Baghdad with a super soaker.
kmfdm781May 27, 2009
The 350 diesel (5.7) had a specifically designed block for diesel operation, but GM as usual, decided to cut costs and used the old Rocket 350 head bolts and bolt patten, which weren't up to the task of 22.5:1 compression ratio. They also didn't use a water separator on the fuel systems, which severely reduced the life of seals and gaskets...as well as caused some bad oxidation on the 70's metals used in the engine. The water from the diesel would corrode the head gasket, then head bolts and cause the head gaskets to fail completely....Immense compression would try to compress water and coolant that entered the engine's cylinders from the blown head gasket causing bad things to happen to the block. Also...dealers and mechanics had no clue how to work on diesels and often reused the old, stretched head bolts causing failure soon after being installed. This engine pretty much doomed the notion of American diesel passenger cars in the US for a long time.
chirp08May 27, 2009
The only real complaint I heard about the Aztek was the split in the rear window that happened to be right in your line of site when you were using your rear view mirror. Otherwise it was an extremely capable minivan/suv crossover at a time when minivans were one of the most popular vehicles out there. If they had stayed truer to the concept it probably would have done extremely well.
loadedforbearMay 27, 2009
The Iron Duke was a tank of an engine but a poor match with the camaro. It had decent HP for the time and a ton of torque for a 4 banger. You could not kill it with out really trying.Just like the 2.3 mustangs it was a light P/U engine to begin with, it had no buisness being in a sports car.
ninzo09May 27, 2009
you missed the ???
fastasfoggyAug 7, 2009
Where was the GM EV1?