100 WORST cars of all time:

How many will you admit to owining:

They were experimenting with applying electrically charged paint that was suposed to bond to the metal - which it did for a couple of years - but something happend in the third year and the bond ceased to hold the paint on - some people fought AMC and got a partial settlement - I sold the car.  By the way, the Eagle Premier was designed by the Gregario studios in Italy - but unfortunatly built by AMC / Chrysler in the USA. 

I have never owned any of those, but I have ridden in many of them! 

I wish I had that 53 Corvette now!!!  I was looking at an original owners manual or shop manual for that year and noticed that there was a "Station wagon model" of that same year.  They apparently planned to make them, had prototypes (6) and they put photos of it on the cover of the manual; REALLY LIKE TO OWN ONE OF THOSE 

We looked at the Solstice (#100) when Jo's BMW died.  Then we looked at Minis...

We also looked at the Sterling in 1987 (#68).  Jo passed because it had a plastic gas cap cover.  We bought her '87 BMW 325is instead.

My dad had the '58 Bird (#51).  I really liked that car.  Still do.

I had a '75 914 (#45).  Loved that car and someday I want another (along with a '58 Bird, TR3, Bugeye Sprite, Studebaker Hawk, and a bunch of other oldies.   Still buying the lotto tickets...).

Ahhh.  #31 - the 1975 Corvette.  I got it really cheap in '76.  I wanted to hang the engineer(s) who allowed the RF sparkplug to be totally inaccessible.  You actually had to loosen the motor mount and jack the engine up.  The front end got floaty over 75mph, but still an OK car compared to what else was available in '75.

#3 - '59 BMW Isetta.  Dad again.  The T-Bird was a bit of a gas hog, so this was his commuter (wasn't the Suez Canal thing going on then?).  I was fascinated by how the steering wheel and steering column folded away when you opened the door.  Dad didn't have any misunderstanding about what the car was - he called it his winter motorcycle (we lived in Denver...).

#12, Renault Alliance (in the form of the hatchback Encore) is still sitting in my driveway.  Everything you've heard about these is true.  Fantastic mileage- 35 around town, 40+ on the highway- can't hide the fact that everything that came from the factory needed to be replaced.  Only then could you get 225k+ (like I did) out of the car.  Reasonably sporty and good looking, unreasonably flimsy.  At least I got 215k out of the engine block before it needed any work (such as a valve job).  That was money poorly spent.

I just had a shudder reading valvashon's comment and realizing that all of these cars were once new. Someone had to make a conscious decision to buy a NEW Gremlin and not something else. Wow.

DneprDave wrote: Only about 30% of the cars shown were very bad, the rest were pretty cool!  I think the author of that article is a clown! Dave

I think you are right!  The Atom has got to be a blast to drive and easy to repair.  That 68 0r 69 T-Bird saved the parents of my girlfriend.   They hit a horse while traveling above 70mph crossing Texas and the car did not flip or run off the road but the carcass landed in the backseat (convertible).

Several years later a different girlfriend was hit while driving her AMC Pacer.  The State Troopers said "Any other car would have resulted in her death".

The article singles out the Corvair with swing axles but leaves out the VW Bug with the same suspension.

The author did not know cars.

Can't claim any of those on the list.

I had a 300D. Rode beautifully but at about 75HP and a 4K+ pound car acceleration was almost imperceptible. 

My dad had a 1960 T bird and I loved that car.  The back seat served me very well.