Hey Scotty, I had a early 1980s Chevrolet Chevette with a Isuzu Diesel motor. That was the worse car ever. Right?
@jimz
Yugo worse
Dodge Dart
A Dodge Dart with slant-six and torqueflite trans is about as bulletproof a car as you could ask for as long as you can keep rust at bay.
@chucktobias
I can't remember any car that had a automatic transmission and a six motor. Just not good.
The Chevette had the Isuzu Diesel and they would not link a automatic to it. Some 4speed and some 5speed. I had the five speed and it made no difference which was used. The 50HP trying to haul over a ton was the problem. The next closest piece of junk was the VW Vanagon. No HP.
@chucktobias
Ford full size cars had some six cylinders and automatic. Genuine piece of crap. The only good thing was they usually had good body parts because they never got wornout.
I almost forgot. Happy Thanksgiving!
Chevy Vega - unreliable engines, bodies built out of compressed rust.
@glen_stet
Son put V8 in one. Drove it until a idiot offered to buy it. Then he got a Firebird.
Wrong.
Dodge Dart
@oneimich
We had a Dodge Neon. It started breaking, and it never stopped breaking.
@oneimich
The Neon was a comfortable car and OK MPG. Used parts could be found easy.
@oneimich
I worked with a guy that had a Yugo. He drove that old clunker looking car for many years. He just didn't tell anyone that he kept rebuilding it from junkyard parts.
But The Dart had enough power to move and seats big enough to be comfortable. The Isuzu Chevette only had about 50HP and took about 20 seconds to reach 60MPH. The Dodge Dart could also be bought with A/C but not the chevette.
@jimz
It depends on what you mean by "worst". The Chevette is a real penalty box with any engine but not too terrible as far as reliability. There were many cars that were worse. (I knew a guy who had a Chevette diesel because he calculated it was the cheapest cost per mile of any car available at the time. And I thought I was a cheapskate!)
There are lots of more appropriate candidates for the worst car in history. The Chevy Citation (and its corporate siblings) comes to mind as an example that was from the same manufacturer and time period as the Chevette and is more deserving of the title. (Going further back, the Chevrolet Series M "copper-cooled" model of the 1920s was certainly one of the worst. Most were recalled and destroyed.)
So many by Chevy. I always like Chevy Impala cars and Ford trucks. Seems now everything is a gamble.
I filled our chevette at the state line between NC/SC close to Carowinds and Charlotte. We filled a cooler with drinks and sandwich and headed down I77 to check GPM. We didn't stop until we reached Miami when the tank got empty. MPG was 56per gallon. It did get good MPG. That trip was about 750Miles long.
Slant six Darts could be had for almost nothing when Hertz Rental dumped them back on the market because upkeep was so high.
@jimz
My personal experience with them has been much different.
@jimz
Just had to keep an extra ballast resistor in the glove box.
Carrying parts was part of getting ready for a trip. Then fixin was coming home.
The Chevy Chevette had a cable clutch linkage that failed all the time. The end piece kept pulling from the wire and adjustment was almost non existent.
Different strokes for different folks is what makes the world go round. That and hot air. 😆
A good thing about shifting when the clutch cable broke is the gears could be "float shifted" like 18 wheelers. After the third cable I just said to heck with replacing them. I planned trips to have fewer stops.
I had the worst experience with 1999 Fiat Uno. It was 12 yrs old when I had to junk it after two years because underbody was rotten. It had only 80k km.
When last inspection was being done, front right brake hose blew during brake test.
It had 5 speed manual transmission. Once on my way home a connection broke so I was able to shift only from 3rd to 4th gear and vice versa. It had to be welded back together.
Otherwise it was nice little car to drive but the quality was too poor. Funny fact is it had only 5-digit odometer so it would turn every 100k km.
@g-t
i think when cars are not expected to last long there is no need to those extra numbers, LOL!