I think I’ve related this story here on Jalopnik before, but it fits this category best, so here goes...

Ran when parked. Heater blows hot.

Gonna have to go with the Soviet’s Prop-M Mars Rover. Probably should have designed a better way to get that bad boy onto the planet without crashing into it.

Southeastern Virginia, AKA Hampton Roads, AKA Tidewater, AKA Coastal Virginia, AKA bridges and tunnels everywhere. The main artery and in out of the area, the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel is a bizarro traffic nightmare that backs up simply because people don’t keep their speed up in the tunnel. That’s it. The reasons…

Yeah! Why would they carve her tweet into the wall when they could blast her singing it through the loudspeakers instead?

Again, not saying it was a boring truck or not fun, just compared to every other car I’ve had it was the least interesting. It was crazy fun. Especially when it snowed and for practical purposes it was useless, but so. much. fun.

Just to clarify, it wasn’t boring. Wasn’t trying to say it was boring. I switch up my daily driver every few years. I’ve had Mustangs, Firebirds, Miatas, Corvairs, a ‘76 Celica, a Hemi Charger, a Corvette, a Honda CM400... The Ranger was NOT boring. It was super fun, I loved the way that little for-banger sounded when…

1998 Ford Ranger. It came in between my ‘91 Corvette and my ‘63 Corvair. It was a bare-bones Ranger with the 4-cylinder and a 5-speed. It looked like it had been used as a landscaper’s work truck before I got it - when I removed the bedliner I found about three inches of packed down dirt in the bed. It was actually a…

Want the world to stay out of your way? I feel like the truck from Sorcerer would be a good daily to flaunt your flagrant disregard for lurking danger.

Corvair.

Backing into angle spaces! I don’t mind people backing into straight parking spaces - I’m patient enough for that, but angle spaces are specifically designed not to be backed into. If you back in, you’re deliberately pointing your car the wrong way and not actually saving any time.

The fact that it’s been washed really makes me have doubts about its authenticity.

Lol - my father had a 2nd gen Ranger and an NA Miata and I drove both while I was learning. Never teach anyone on a Ranger. For some reason, it would roll backwards every single time you clutch. You could be driving uphill and 50 miles an hour and if you clutched it would just roll backwards.  Not to mention you had…

I’ll be that guy. The answer is Miata. Always Miata. I learned on a 1990 Miata. The clutch is just right and the shifter is so fun to throw around that you’ll be obsessed with practicing.

Oldsmobile’s 455 is peak big block for me. If you were lucky, you got a steel crank (factory issues meant even some cars that were supposed to have steel got cast iron), but of all big blocks GM’s divisions put out in the 60's and 70's the Olds 455 was... well, it just looked really awesome. It had what looked like a…

Have a busload of kids.

My 1968 Olds 4-4-2 clone. I bought it while I was in college in 1995 for $1,800 and slowly poured money into it over the last 27 years. It caught my eye on a sketchy used car dealership in Roanoke and I decided then and there that if I didn’t make my dream of owning a muscle car true it was never going to happen. What…

Poor little Daihatsu. I think a lot of us forget they had a pretty solid run selling cars like the Rocky and the Charade in the U.S.

The world needed Edsel. Not because anybody would have bought it, but given the scope of Edsel’s failure in the U.S., it would have been positively EPIC to see that failure be a worldwide event.

The worst three-wheeler of all time is easily any car that started the day with four wheels.