@87CapriceEstate: The Dodge Ram 50 was a Mitsubishi product, not that Mitsubishi isn't one of the lowest quality brands in general. I loved Omnis and Horizons though. We had generally good service from our 1979 Horizon, but my grand parents' 1980 Omni served them up to Toyota and they never had reason to look back.

@SexualHusky: Not in quality however. I used to drive an E38 740i Sport, although I didn't own it. In its last year of warranty coverage it needed $7,700 in repairs that didn't include the slipping transmission, the missing engine, some rear seat power features, or the navigation/CD door. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, it…

@tonyola: The Renault Alliance went from ubiquitous to a memory in about 3 years. Of how about the first generation US market Hyundai Excel? They sold so many of them that Mitsubishi started selling them as the Precis too, but by 1990 they were almost gone. I knew someone that still had one in 1989, and he abandoned…

@laxmax613: It isn't about voting. It is about surveying people who bought each model on the market and asking them what broke. VW fights it out with the remaining British built cars from Mini, Land Rover, and Jaguar for the title of lowest quality manufacturer remaining in the US. The Touareg is the worst of the…

The worst car you can buy today is the VW Touareg:

@Scuttle: Is that sarcasm? A Mini, a classic Mustang, a chopped 540i, a Metrobusa, a V6 Manta, a '79 Trans Am, an XJ-S, and a C4 out of 21 cars? Not to mention that many of them are the exact same cars that have added spice to LeMons grids. Is it just a matter of them all being real cars, as opposed to the 4CV bodied…

@Vavon: That was from its LeMons days, IIRC. The LeMons judges have a hate-on for SE-Rs, so the Sentra was disguised as a frog turd to at least illicit some good will. I think it has 405 badges and taillights taped off to look like a Peugeot too.

Where is he a resident? Where is he a citizen?

The Alfa Romeo Carabo by Bertone. When I was a little kid, I had a neighbor named George Lake who built himself a remarkably convincing replica of it with Porsche 911 components. I'd love to know where it is now.

@thedreadpirate: I agree with you entirely. My point was that someone should have caught that this article's writer made an obvious factual error.

@FordTuffMcgruff: That would be the absolute least effort required to reach the number on a daily basis, but the reality is that the cars were only loaned out for 3 months to each customer. 3*203=609 months of use. 609/(12*50) = 1.015 years of use per car. Each car really only spent an average of a little more than a…

@Brian: Cogito Ergo ZOOM!: I hope you're being sarcastic about the believing it part. It would take 11 full time work years to drive 1,000,000 miles at an average speed of 45 mph, which is an improbably high speed. I worked for a company that had a fleet of cars and SUVs with trip computers. I would often check the…

When I was a teenager in the Netherlands, we used to pick up small cars and leave them blocking the single lane, one-way street I lived on. Just a thought.

@BigHarv: The million mile per car figure. In less than 4 years.

"In total, 203 average citizens got the chance to test the Chrysler Turbine between 1963 and early 1966. Most cars topped a trouble-free million miles before their retirement."

@rickerbr: MSRP of the RL in 1996 was $41,000.

@acarr260: I read it. NHTSA doesn't want the reality in the hands of the public, to the point that they are trying to discredit a true reporting of their own results. Doesn't their latest accusation of 'Toyota's PR' machine 'planting' of the article smack of an effort to call the TRUE article into question? Why would…

This is consistent with my narrative which is that the NHTSA is just another arm of an administration that wants to assassinate Toyota's brand equity so they can push UAW garbage and make their ambulance chasing supporters wealthier.

I've heard from a couple of PCA guys not to bother buying these cars used, as the reason people sell them is that the chassis becomes a wet noodle after too many track hours. I wonder how this one was handling before the rear suspension got pushed in.

@P161911 probably shoudn't have: Sounds about right.