TIME's 50 Worst Cars Of All Time

This is some funny stuff:

1984 Yugo:
Built in Soviet-bloc Yugoslavia, the Yugo had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint.

2001 Pontiac Aztek:
I was in the audience at the Detroit auto show the day GM unveiled the Pontiac Aztek and I will never forget the gasp that audience made. Holy hell! This car could not have been more instantly hated if it had a Swastika tattoo on its forehead.

1956 Renault Dauphine
Its most salient feature was its slowness, a rate of acceleration you could measure with a calendar. It took the drivers at Road and Track 32 seconds to reach 60 mph, which would put the Dauphine at a severe disadvantage in any drag race involving farm equipment.

1958 Zunndapp Janus
....giving it a top speed of only 50 mph, assuming you had that kind of time. Its unique feature was the rear-facing bench seat, which meant passengers could watch in horror as traffic threatened to rear-end this rolling roadblock of a car.

They put a few perfectly good cars on there and even say they were, I can't quite figure that out.  They also omitted the Chevy Vega, a car that rusted through the top of the fenders in 3 years and whose engine self-destructed like clockwork at 42,000 miles.  I know, I did engine rebuilds and valve jobs in the late 70's.  It was one of the worst engines ever made.  People were still making payments on cars that had been junked- their next cars were Japanese.  It's one of the big reasons for the crash the Big Three took in the 80's.

TIME's Liberal bias creeps in even here, with several big gas hog SUVs making the list only because they are big gas hog SUVs, but it's a really funny read for anyone, not just car buffs.  Check it out.

Comments

[Dammit Woman]

Subaru Brat HAS to be in that list.

[Annoyed White Male]

I take it that comes from personal experience....
The Brat was a great idea, they sold a bunch of them. A supermini AWD pickup would still sell. Subaru wasn't so great then but they've done a great job, now their cars are excellent. We have a 96 Outback with 160,000 and we plan to replace it with a Forrester in a couple years.