TIME Magazine: The 50 worst cars of all time.

[Cicero17]

Okay, the Vega is a given, but it was the Motortrend car of the year thing that got me about that poorly fitted, plastic, short lived, piece of junk called the Monza.

 

[va3ux]

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I think the article is mostly political in nature, particularly about the cars of the 90s. Thus much of it is off limits for commenting on this board.

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??. I don't see where you're coming from at all with that. I think you're taking a car article way too seriously.

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While it is about cars, it shows a contempt for them.

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Well now I would expect that an article entitled "The 50 Worst Cars Of All Time" would focus on the negative aspects of those cars, and thus show contempt.

 

[Bill in Utah]

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And I agree...too much politics

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From Time magazine!

Tell me its not so...

Thats all that rag is. (along with others)

Next week hopefully we will see the BEST 50 cars of all time!

Bill

 

[Auto-Union]

The Renault Alliance was also Car of the Year, and I've personally witnessed one puke it's engine inards out. My parents offered me a choice of a new Alliance or a used 1980 Corolla, I took the Corolla. LeCar could have made the list. A lot of inconsistencies. fwiw, my 1st car was a Gremlin Mk1, it was a ---- good car.

 

[Pablo]

I don't care that the article is cynical of the "worst" cars.... but is there ANYTHING Time (dime bag) magazine can do withOUT politics. They are terrible!!

Some of the early cars were purely experimental in nature. Cutting edge? Who knew? But things were learned.

Example: 34 Desoto

Some examples were not exactly "production" cars.

Leap a few decades...

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ord President Robert McNamara who convinced the board to bail out of the Edsel project; a decade later, it was McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, who couldn't bring himself to quit the disaster of Vietnam, even though he knew a lemon when he saw one.

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About the TR7:

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The thing had more short-circuits than a mixing board with a bong spilled on it.

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Nice:

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Uday Hussein, son of Saddam, had one, which the U.S. military cheerfully blew up in 2004 during a "test" to simulate the effects of a car bomb. The LM002 is the forerunner of another large and unnecessary SUV that signals pure contempt for one's fellow man, the Hummer H2

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Tripe:

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he Ford Explorer is responsible for setting this country on the spiral of vehicular obesity that we are still contending with today. People, particularly women drivers, discovered that they liked sitting up high. Even though more fuel-efficient minivans do the kid- and cargo-hauling duties better, people came to prefer the outdoorsy, go-anywhere image of SUVs. In other words, people became addicted to the pose. And, as vehicles got bigger and heavier, buyers sought out even bigger vehicles to make themselves feel safe. Helloooo Hummer. All of that we can lay at the overachieving feet of the Explorer.

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Just stupid writing:

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The H2 was also a PR catastrophe for GM, who happened to be repossessing and crushing the few EV1 electric cars at the time. It all contributed to GM's emerging image as the **** Cheney of car companies.

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Stupid jingoistic hippie writing. Nothing more.

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

"The Monza? How about the Vega? That was the GM boondoggle extrodinaire of the 70s. "
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Amen to that rustbucket with the cracked aluminum engine.

 

[01rangerxl]

I do not really see how the Explorer made the list. They say that they included the Explorer because it is somehow responsible for the popularity of SUVs. So, Ford made an SUV people liked and they bought a lot of them, what is wrong with that? The Explorer outsold every other SUV in its first year of production and is still #1 in its class...I am not really seeing what Ford did wrong.

 

[RippyMan]

I think when I previously said that the author "shows contempt" for the automobile, I misspoke. Instead, I think he's obviously against the vast majority of Americans owning automobiles.

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Well, that's just the problem, isn't it? The Model T ... conferred to Americans the notion of automobility as something akin to natural law, a right endowed by our Creator. A century later, the consequences of putting every living soul on gas-powered wheels are piling up, from the air over our cities to the sand under our soldiers' boots.

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My question is, if you were a dog lover, would you find credible an article entitled "The 10 Worst Dog Breeds" where the author states in every other description that he thinks that people shouldn't own dogs unless they live in the country? I think this is very similar.

Sorry if I'm getting too political. I just don't think this is such a great list. Even the article's brief description is misleading:

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On the 50th anniversary of the Ford Edsel, TIME and Dan Neil, Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive critic and syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times, look at the greatest lemons of the automotive industry

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I don't think all of the cars mentioned qualify as "lemons."

 

[G-MAN]

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I do not really see how the Explorer made the list. They say that they included the Explorer because it is somehow responsible for the popularity of SUVs. So, Ford made an SUV people liked and they bought a lot of them, what is wrong with that? The Explorer outsold every other SUV in its first year of production and is still #1 in its class...I am not really seeing what Ford did wrong.

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Ford didn't do anything wrong. The author is a left-wing idiot who used the ruse of a 50 worst cars article to further a political agenda. End of story.