I worked in a body shop for about 7 mos in 1985 and have worked on most of the 23 cars I’ve owned. So for me it’s actually a toss up between a nearly new in 85’ Chrysler K car where you couldn’t get your hands into parts of the car to rebuild it OR an 83’ dodge diplomat police car we had to repair where the fiberglass…

GM G-body cars from the 80s have the heater cores conveniently under the hood, not behind the dash like nearly every car. Two hour job, tops.

Late-70’s Dodge Aspen.

The 4.6 was the wrong answer to every question.

“not actually any more unreliable than any other car”?

I was thinking the same thing. The original new MINI had engines built in Brazil, transmissions from Germany and the car was assembled in Oxford and they figured it out.

Take engine from Termoli plant. Put in crate. Ship to Japan via ship/air/camel/teleport/however. Assemble into chassis. Fiat 124 complete.

I can think of a million of them, but the one platform with the most had to be the 1986 Hyundai/Mitsubishi “X-1”, sold as the Excel/Precis/Colt/Eagle. This testament to the enduring inability of humans to understand value featured a Mikuni carburetor with a wax-element choke that was connected to the engine’s coolant…

2009 - 2015 VW DPF & ECU software.

The only problem with the Aztek is that it was about 5 years too early. Every Crossover out today is just an Aztek with the Pontiac styling ironed out of it.

Finally! An actual mechanical design flaw, not a superficial one!

Subaru’s phase 1 EJ25 head gasket failures. My god... So many models throughout so many years had head gasket problems.

I hope you realize how ridiculous that sounds.

Going to be that guy I guess. I own a 2015 model, and the rear visibility is great, assuming you set your mirrors properly. I have 0 blindspot behind me. The front pillars though....I lose things if those occasionally. As for interior space, I found it to be much roomier than the 2001 it replaced, and very…

Careful. Tesla fan boys might electrocute you for saying this

When the new Chrysler 200 came out I was pretty interested. It looked like it wouldn’t be completely awful like the previous iteration, and it looked like it may actually be pretty nice.

If you get rid of your car because of how you think others perceive it, you need to leave adolescence behind.

I have come to a conclusion all these share economy companies are a collective group of arrogant assholes.

VINDICATION! I’m so sick of arguing with people that say because it has less moving parts there’s nothing that can go wrong. That’s bullshit. But to be fair, frankly so are CR rankings, so I’ll just be quiet now.

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