A friend of mine has an annoying quirk. He is never wrong.

Name some purchase he has made and he always got the highest quality at the lowest price in the best whatever..... He has never in his life made an error.

But one day in the late 70's he remarked on what a loser of a car his Chevy Chevette was.

We all knew that if he was being critical of something he had made the purchase decision on it must truly be the worst item in the free world.

Hey CLK Man......can you repeat the words Ford Granada with.......but be sure and use the Ricardo Montebalm accent! Now there's a name and commercial from the past!

Audi 100LS. Traded it for a Ford Escort. Junked the Escort 6 months later. As I was pulling that worthless POS into the scrap yard I looked over and, ayup, there sat the Audi.

The Audi looked good and rode like a dream (behind the tow vehicle which was its usual mode of propulsion) but what a heap. I shudder and cross myself whenever I see a picture of one.

Here's a quote which pretty much says it all.

"Going by Consumer Reports frequency-of-repair charts, those early Audis were not reliable.
The April, 1978 issue has charts for 1972-'77 cars. The Audi 100LS has a "much worse than average" figure for 1972-1976 and an average rating for 1977.

Problem areas were engine mechanical, engine cooling, exhaust system, fuel system, ignition system, automatic transmission, air conditioning, brakes and electrical system.

You would be much better off liking Mopars!"

Other than those minor problems it was probably a good car.

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Put me down for an early 90s Mercury Topaz, and an early 90s Chrysler Lebaron.

I thought these cars were sorta cool as generic transportation, always had a thing for fun versions of standard or family vehicles. I found both cars in rare factory 5 speeds. The lebaron was actually pretty fast with that arrangement.

The love affair started to fade when the mercury's plastic topped radiator melted and jammed the cooling system with plastic, causing what ended up being a total engine failure. On the lebaron warning signs started when I went to impress a girl I hoped to date with my sexy power convertible roof, and the design of the dam roof was so bad, the rear glass jammed on the way down and exploded into a thousand shards into her hair.

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American cars in general. Before I came to the States I was all about American cars and so my first car was a '64 New Yorker wagon. Now I don't give a **** about them. The only American I truly love is a Ford GT and hope to own one day.

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

That's lightweight......

You haven't lived until you've tried to get a hundred K+ miles out of a couple of POS '70s-something Cadillacs IN the '70s!

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'06 E320 CDI
'17 Corvette Stingray Vert

1978 Chevy Caprice station wagon - bought new and driven HARD - 130,000 miles before we sold it. Required normal maintenance, which was performed on schedule.

1978 Olds Delta 88 - bought new - 130,000 miles before we sold it. Required normal maintenance, which was performed on schedule.

Perhaps you neglected your vehicles.

Izzuzu Impuls. I like the little pop up lights and the over all design. From what I recall the build quality was not that good and it was pretty anemic.



Ford Probe. It was a Ford from the early 90's. Looked cool as a kid. Not to impressed now.

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- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

You LIKED the Pontiac Aztec???


1974 Audi Fox. For some inexplicable reason, I thought it was a cool car....

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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I used to think these were the height of class, that I could maybe afford anyway. No longer. Money pits is what I hear:

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

Large V8 American cars. My first car was a '73 Chrysler Newport with a 400 big block. That got replaced by a '72 Mercury Montego with a 351W. I also had a '76 Buick and a '63 Dodge. I used to think a '69 Hemi Roadrunner would be the ultimate car. I still wouldn't mind having an old 60's muscle car to take out on weekends, but between the crap fuel economy, the crap handling, the crap brakes, and dealing with carburetors, I would never have another as a daily driver. My dream cars now are a Porsche 911 (achievable) and a Ferrari (in case I ever hit the lottery), along with a W123 Turbo-Diesel with a manual transmission-no need to dream, I have one and drove it to work and back today.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.

The Plymouth Prowler.

I loved these when they first came out and for some reason I hate them now.

If you had actually HAD one in high school, I bet you would think back on it differently. A friend of mine had one and the back seat folded down into the trunk giving a flat carpeted area almost the size of a full size mattress. It added a whole new element of utility for a teenage boy.

Plymouth PT Cruiser (Neon chassis) - cheap electricals that are a PITA to replace, 4 speed AT w/out OD, then Chrysler goes tits up and says FU on the warranty. At 65K it was a POS. Thank god a tree fell on it during Sandy.
Fiat X-19 - great pussy wagon but it's still a Fiat. Same for the Spider Veloche. These rusted during the trip over on the boat from Italy.
Puegot 505 Turbo Diesel - Great performance but shoddy electrics and just try and get parts even when they were importing them.
Volvo S80 - Nice try but don't sub the FI/ECU manufacture to MM of Italy. Major electrical nightmare that spent more time in the shop than in the driveway.

Third and fourth gen Corvette. Barely cool when I was 12.

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