At least this sort of hedonistic display of wealth I can accept. It beats buying a newspaper and then overriding the editorial boards...

They sold like hotcakes because people were desperate to get rid of their gas guzzlers after the first fuel crisis of the 70s, not because they thought the M][ was a great car.  People bought Vegas for the same reason.

I’m impressed and disgusted at the same time.

They had modern suspensions, rack and pinion steering, front wheel disc brakes and better fuel economy. They just don’t look as good as most of the older models, and were slow, even compared with other compact cars of the era. But later mustang II models had a (admittedly still underpowered) V8 option and looked a…

The “Copper-Cooled” Chevrolet. It was such a disaster that they took them all back and threw the engines into Lake Michigan.

Looks more like either a raccoon or an opossum.

Clear winner (loser?) here. Vega.

“Why would the best, most effective value proposition to distribute vehicles to customers not be your first choice?” Devlin asked Auto News. “And why would you reject an existing distribution and sales system that already exists?”

Good god, enough with the hate on the Mustang II. It was the right car at the right time and it sold like hotcakes at a time when Mustang sales were in a severe decline. Not to mention that it kept the nameplate alive for future generations of better cars. Was it the best Mustang? No. Was it the best they could do in…

When calling something the best/worst, I think it is good to compare to both history and established standards when new. So, I’ll nominate the generation of Ford Focus that was built a self-destructive DCT.

The 1976 Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volare. Chrysler replaced its most legendarily reliable cars—the Plymouth Valiant and Dodge Dart—with its least reliable.  It would become the most recalled car in the history of such things (until the GM X-body, covered in someone else’s reply, broke that record four years later).…

“It’s one that gives the Nautilus more than 500 miles 148 leauges of range per tank, too.

That’s the first car that came to mind. I was born well after the Vega ceased production, but I still know it was a uniquely bad car.

Bar none, Lincoln has the best model names in the industry right now:

See me after class.

“The Nautilus does look way better than the MKX it replaces. The outgoing MKX was the second generation of a model that debuted back in 2007 and had been largely unchanged since 2016.”

Of course Pinto is going to pop up on this list because people have been groomed for decades into having that opinion about it. But it’s only flaw was a misplaced gas tank early in its run. It was still an attractive runabout that still sold pretty well.

You guys are like the office mean girls when Marge from Accounting wins Employee of the Year.

Gotta be the Vega. While the Mustang II featured in the article was awful, the Vega took it to a whole other level. Prematurely rusted, drank oil like a 2-stroke, had this stupid sealed air cleaner...

I have to agree with you Echo5Niner. I like the 5-pot, and small sedan form factor, real colors, etc... BUT having had an Audi and a handful of VWs, I’d not buy a new car from either brand unless (if and when) I have money to burn or a reason to lease instead of own.