Jalopnik is no longer filled with car people that actually go drive these cars. It's just just people who do internet research, then writes a bs article.
@@CarsofGlasgow Seems that way. Saying "The Tempo was...fine" and "it had cushy seats" just says that they don't really know what your average enthusiast looks for in a car.
@@aussiebloke609 so true! As an enthusiast I want a reasonable interior, great driving feel and cool paint options. (if it is a drivers car). For a daily commuter I want a quite comfortable ride with a good sound system, and great mpg.
The H1 was designed to go through 24 inches of mud, streams, and under water if needed. It was never intended to be comfortable. I put plenty of them through hell and back and they were awesome 4WD vehicles.
I'm 63 years old and took Drivers Education in High School in the 70's. I learned to drive a manual in a Chevette, so still have a small warm place in my heart for them, almost buying a new one in the early 80's from a Chevy Dealer in Jacksonville, North Carolina, while stationed at Camp Lejune as a Navy Hospital Corpsman. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇
We had a manual Chevette in Summer School drivers ed in 1980. I was the only one in my group that could drive it as I had experience with a motorcycle clutch. It was hell riding with all the big football players on a 90+ degree day in the parking lot and they just kept killing it. I finally got my chance, showed that I could handle it in the parking lot then off to the streets to play Mario Andretti, downshifting up to every stop and the weak A/C barely cooling us off. Great memories!
When the kittens were little, you needed to keep them in a not too large room with their litter box. then they learn that is the only place to go. The litter box, not the room
I raised a litter of kittens from an outdoor cat mom who was used to just finding appropriate places outside, and I never needed to add a litter box in my garage where they lived the spring/summer they were born. Never smelled or saw anything. There was a pet door opening so they could freely come and go.
My wife had a nissan Rouge Sport before it was called a sport. She loved it, I hated it. It was terrible to drive. Why? The CVT transmission. It was nasty when it was new. It was replaced when the car had 16K miles. It was still terrible. It never knew when to shift and it sounded like a buzzy rattletrap. Hilarious thing: the car had paddle shifters. They did nothing!
Thanks for the update on the kittens. Glad they all found loving homes. I learned to drive in a 1953 Chevy 3100 1/2 ton pickup when I was 14 back in 1975. My mom insisted that if I wanted her to teach me how to drive it had to be in that truck because after that everything would be easy. She was right. I've been fortunate that most of the cars I've owned in my life were decent cars. Following Hoovie's and Wizard's advice, I currently own a 2002 Buick LeSabre with the reliable 3800 series II engine that I bought from the original, elderly owner. Not the best mileage but upkeep and maintenance is so cheap that I still come out ahead. Living four miles from my work doesn't hurt either.
My metric for worst car I've ever driven is pretty low, considering what I learned to drive on. A 1941 Willy's Jeep. It was a farm vehicle and it had, character. My drivers ed car was a Mercury Topaz, the slightly nicer version of the Tempo. It wasn't garbage, but it wasn't fun. The worst car I've ever owned was a 1980 Pontiac Phoenix that actively tried to kill me on several occasions. It had a habit of blowing right front brake calipers, usually at the worst possible time, like when I was approaching a busy intersection. I used trees, telephone poles and buildings to stop it. The steering would also bind, and that ultimately led to its final attempt to kill me going around an off camber turn on a slightly damp Kentucky state highway.
I had a car that would lose breaks, or even all electricals, and all of the 30+ times it happened I always came to a stop thinking ‘wow am I lucky that it happened here and now’ idk what you did to deserve that hahaha
When the Chevette (AKA the SHOVE IT) was re-desgned by Giorgetto Giugiaro given a turbo and lotus suspension, and 5-speed ... VERY fun spirited RWD car. Isuzu Piazza FTW!
I had a 2006 magnum rt awd from new for 16 years and I will tell you as someone who had to drive to go work ,35 miles ,in snow storms to do snow removal, this was the best car I ever owned! It killed me to let it go with 275,000 miles but it was time. I replaced it with a low miles 2014 GMC sierra with ground issues, and AC issues, I miss my baby. By the way, still on the road.
Worst driving experience for me early 1980s Grand Wagoneer. Rode terrible, steering had 1/4 turn of slop in the steering wheel before it turned the wheels, no power, all the controls felt cheap, total gas guzzler. And this was when it was new. Terrible vehicle.
Hey, my first car was a Pinto! I could have done better but my dad said "buy a cheap crappy Pinto or Vega because you're going to scratch and ding up your first car". He was right but also not really concerned about safety.
My friend had a Ford Tempo GL with the V6 when Fast and Furious started and his tempo would beat most of the imports the other kids had. Back in 2007 I owned a 2006 Dodge Magnum SRT8 and it was my favorite car ever. If I could get another one today I would. I met my wife when I owned this car and we would fold the back seats down out an air mattress in the back , open the AirPod and go camping. It was great looking up at the stars .
A couple of my friends had Chevettes in the late 80s. They didn't have any power, but with a manual and RWD, they were fun to slide around the gravel back roads!
I had a 2005 Caravan and I loved it. So versatile and had very little issues with it thank God, because I would not want to work on it. Maybe I got lucky?
One of the most Common BUT Underrated cars of the 1990s I present the GM W body, any all of Oldsmobile cutlass supreme Buick Regal with the 3800 Chevrolet Lumina and Pontiac Grand Prix. They really by comparison were designed and built so much better than GM cars current. The Hydramatic Transmissions were Good they did have a decent Electrical system but did leave room for better braking and just alittle more HPs. The point Im making is GM hasn't really been worth a quarter since especially in FWD transaxle cars, the Trailblazer Buick Ranier and Olds Bravada of the Early 2000s are the true last of anything decent.
Temp/Topaz was terrible - Dad had an '84 Topaz - the paint started peeling 2 years in and the steering made clunking/creaking noises and it chewed up front tires. Fuel injection was always having issues. IT was a New car!
Hoovies Chrysler Minivan video was one of his first videos I remember watching. And I’ve been hooked ever since. My first thought was this is really dumb. But I loved every minute of it.
My worst driving auto was a 1976 Bronco. But really an absolute blast to drive, but you had to pay attention. It had the 302 v8, manual trans 3 on the tree, manual steering and posi rear end. Noisy and cold with no insulation but in the summer with the top off it was awesome. If it was even a little slippery in winter you had to put it in 4 wheel drive. If in rear wheel drive only with manual steering, posi rear end and short wheelbase, it was so squirrely you could easily lose control.
I own a smartfortwo gas-powered, rear-wheel drive, basic version with no radio, no AC, and manual windows. That thing is a total compromise in every single way, but it works for what it is intended (moving one or two people around with space for a cooler or four bags of groceries). It is so cheap to buy, operate, register, insure, and maintain, that I can't afford to sell it because It is not worth anything and I will never find a cheaper car to own that is gas-powered and rear wheel drive. It does deserve its place on this list because the seats are not comfortable for long drives, and you are always conscious of being the smallest car on the road.
I owned a 2001 Ford Expedition and 2004 Hummer H2. The H2 handled and rode better than the Expedition, had great seats, strong heat/AC, strong heated seats, huge sunroof, adequate HP and was easy enough to see out of. It also towed my horse trailer well u like the Expedition (which was rated to tow more😂). I loved my H2. The interior plastics were utter garbage though.
Hey, there were lot of fleets that ran those day, and night to 400,000 mile before selling them. Did you buy a used one? State AG here in Pa warned, they were the #1 rolled back odometer on used car lots.
I feel like the Pinto doesn't deserve the hate that it has, sure the gas tank was an issue but other than that, it had a reliable engine, an affordable price and was a funny little car.
It’s really hard to say what the worst driving cars ever are because things change over time. Driving a Model T every day in the winter is probably pretty bad compared to nearly anything that came after it right ? But it was a very good car in its day for its intended purpose and a whole lot better than cars and buggies before it. I can tell you that there are two cars that I drive that do not have age as a reason for not being good (and again I think a Model T is good for its time). I drove a 2003 or so Chevrolet Malibu. How anyone that drove that and the same era Jetta, Civic, Corolla etc and bought a Malibu instead is beyond me. Underpowered, droning, horrible shifting and boring. I remember the doors opened like 20 degrees so it was almost a squeeze to get in for an average size person. It is almost like whoever designed the dashboard realized after production started that they forgot to include HVAC vents so they just plopped them on top at the ends. Cheaply made and just truly a bad car. Given the choice between this and a model T as my only car, even in the dead of winter , I’d grab the model t and a coat. Another car was a similar era Ford Windstar. The seats were low to the floor and brutally uncomfortable. Laughable interior quality and absolutely zero personality whatsoever. These were reasons Americans bought so many Japanese cars but you couldn’t give an American car away in Japan.
A lot of these are just uninteresting cars, and the descriptions of the driving experiences are wildly inaccurate and unrepresentative of the vehicle they're talking about. I've driven most of them, and I'm with Hoovie. They're fine, even if they're forgettable and dull experiences.
I have to step in to defend the Dodge Magnum. I special ordered one for 2005 the moment they became available, so I had one of the early ones. It was a FANTASTIC car. I ordered the SXT with the larger V6 and it had so much grunt people thought it was a hemi. Glass smooth ride in total comfort. Since I took delivery, it was a one owner / one driver and only serviced by the dealer. I sold it to a friend only last year (2023) as it was due for more repairs than I could spend on it given how many cars we owned. LOVED that Magnum!😍
My stepmom had a PT Cruiser and she loved it. I drove it with the 2.4 liter. It was a blast! It moved and handled pretty well. The Chevy Trax however, that I got stuck with in 2022 after wrecking my Mustang, was a total piece of crap. I rented it for 2 weeks until I picked up my 2020 Ford Escape Titanium with the 2.0 Ecoboost from Rusty Eck Ford. That Ford is fast and nimble and I have smoked Camaros off the line at lights and then they catch up and look at me in shock. Sport mode works! The Chevy could barely get onto the highway, just no power.
The Chevette was my high school car. Rear wheel drive with a manual transmission. I wish I had one today. Put a turbo Honda K24 in it and make it a sleeper :)
My first car was a 4 door Chevette. It was a gift from my mother for a high school car and I hated it when I first saw it. After about two weeks of driving it I loved it. It could take 5 people and all their gear to the beach. I put a roof rack on it and it could also take 5-6 surfboards on it. It was by no means fast but it was great for road trip surf sessions in high school when everyone was on a budget and gas money was tight. It was not the best car I have ever owned but it was a good car for me at the time.
I had a 3rd Gen 2010 Prius with 310k mi when I sold it. I bought it 4 years earlier with 232k for $5k. I did all the work myself and loved it. Great comfortable cars. I drove it for work and the mileage reimbursement paid for the car two times over.
My cousin was involved in a head-on collision after he was rear-ended. in a 1978 Chrysler LeBaron. He gave me the car.. I wrapped the chain around the front end, wrap the other side against the pole. And back-and-forth till I pulled the front end out.. let it cool down. Turn it around and did the same thing till I pulled the right rear out so it wasn’t rubbing the rear tire.. drove that thing for about two years. Me and two of my buddies jumped up and down on the hood. It was flat.. bolted it down. Put a new fan in it put a new water pump in it Bondo the radiator. And I drove that thing and drove it and drove it and drove it.. not know nothing about nothing. I didn’t realize the exhaust was bent until it fell off from the catalytic converter. And I drove it that way for a long long time. Actually like that car. It was a gutless wonder but it took me every single place I ever needed to go without breaking down.. good times
clearly never driven a Pt-cruiser.. that thing was AWFUL, terrible transmission, the worst turning radius ive ever seen, and bad suspension.. by far my least enjoyable car i've ever driven..
I never drove a PT Cruiser that didn't break down on me. It was a popular rental car. Went through three on one trip alone. Didn't matter if it had a few hundred miles or a few thousand miles. And different issues each time. Loved waiting for tow trucks instead of enjoying my vacation.
Chevrolet Chevette is the american version of the Opel Kadett. Which is still popular among european car enthusiasts. Izuzu Gemini is the japanese version of it.
I had an '02 PT Cruiser with a 1 inch rear lowering springs, lake pipes, and an awesome speaker system on the stock radio. It was fun and very reliable.
The worst car I ever drove was a Ferrari 275 GTB. It was in my friend's shop and he let me drive it around the block. Admittedly, it needed an alighnment but it pulled really hard to the right, and drove and steered like an early 60's truck. Absolutely beautiful car and sounded awesome but like the saying goes, never meet your idol.
I am lucky enough to say that the worst car I've driven was a 2022 Audi Q3 made during the chip shortage. It was missing simple options like a push button start, blind spot monitoring, gps, and the virtual cockpit. I was happy when it got a nail in its tire and i was given a Q5.
My first car was a 89 tempo. My dad bought it for my mom from the little old lady next door in 98 with 35k miles then my mom got the 1st 1st gen hatchback focus in 2000 and they gave me the tempo. I loved that car. The funky red interior was amazing. The only reason I got rid of it was I traded it for a 85 ranger with the same funky red interior
I've got 50 years behind the wheel and 26 cars (so far) under my belt. Not the greatest number, but enough to have seen my share of good and bad. The worst car for me was a tie between my '06 Audi A4 (8 shop visits in 1.5 years) and my '06 Lexus IS350 (great in town, but a terrible road trip car which was the majority of my driving at the time). Any car with a CVT makes a worst car list, but I can also say the same about any car that is FWD.
I remember in high school a friend had a geo metro. It was awful but so awful it was amazing. Felt like riding around in a coffin, and the steering wheel was as accurate as a 20 year old riding mower. You haven’t lived until you’ve ridden in an old metro going 70 on a highway.
My dad had a 93ish 3.3 v6 “sport” caravan and I raced it as a 16yr old , killed a few transmissions , lost warranty on tires for burn-outs,.. 4 wheeled in farmers field and it lived as a store delivery van until 2015ish
3 cars stand out for me. The PT Cruiser. It wasn’t necessarily horrible, as much as it was a let down, a car that was sort of interesting, but drove like an anemic K-car. The 2006ish Nissan Quest, my wife and I were in the market for a minivan, we drove everything on the market that year, the Quest was comically bad. It seriously felt like driving an old Datsun pickup with 3 rows of seating. Literally any Volkswagen bus/camper/Vanagon from 1950 to 1990. They served their purpose, but as a driving experience they were abysmal. Underpowered.. horrible handling.. shifting by Ouija board (pick a gear, any gear).. if it had an automatic take your 67 hp and flush it down the toilet… which some of them came with. Honorable mention goes to the 80’s Pontiac/Daewoo LeMans.
In 2023 I had the "pleasure" of renting a Malibu after my car was bumped into in a parking lot and went to a body shop..the Malibu was literally rattling going down a straight line street..luckily it was paid for by the other persons insurance so I couldn't complian to much
I recently bought a gen 2 Local Motors Rally Fighter. It is sooo cool, but it's fairly difficult to drive due to the seating position, raked front window, roll cage, etc. It definitely takes some getting used to.
*GM EV1* If more folks drove this car, it would have topped the list. 90's GM hard plastic craptastic interior. A brake pedal masquerading as a light switch. Skinny tires with absolutely no grip and squealed in turns. Suspension was set up perfectly for inducing motion sickness.
Worst and ugliest car I ever owned was my first car…a used orange Plymouth Horizon. Had to kickstart it in the rain. The engine bay rusted out. It was all I could afford 40 years ago.
i have a Lexus CT and i underestimated the how flexible the prius drivetrain is, excellent for most driving situations, CVT is still somewhat disappointing
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I agree with most, but the Magnum is not bad at all. I had a 2005 2.7 that had done 360.000km at it was Not bad at all. Very comfortable even with coilovers. The older Jeep Wranglers were so cool. But terrible to drive. I drove a 90's 4.0 HO with welded rear diff and big wheels about 500km to help a friend and it took soo much fuel and couldn't even do 70mph on the freeway.
I had an 87 Ford Tempo and it was the sport edition with the 2 doors red and red and white interior and It was one of my favorite cars to drive. It saved the life of my wife and I when a lady tried to get me to Tbone her in an intersection and I veered right left and then spun into the median with no problems but a blown back tire. These people didn't know what they were talking about. It was fun in curbs and fun on winding roads with hills one especially that gave me a little tingle every time I went over that hill at over 65 mph. I loved it. I miss it and I wished I had it back. It was insurance totaled the month I finished paying for it. Rear ended by a kid that had prescription drug container in his car for everyone to see.
Hoovie hating on an I-3…get a Honda Beat, Hoovie! 3 cylinders of pure power, 0.656 liters of raw go, a roaring 63 horsepower, and yet you’ll be laughing the whole time.
@@bennyboogenheimer4553 damn I didn’t know they had an even less powerful xB. It’s actually the car I hated the most to own. Barely any storage space, no cruise control, no arm rest, radio was trash, 103 hp wasn’t enough to go up steep hills… the only thing I liked was the exterior design and quick steering.
Love the show, but why do we keep rehashing articles of a website that clearly employs zero auto enthusiasts, has zero credibility, covering shit that we "car people" don't care about???
Smart car by a long shot. I dated a girl that had a diesel one. Great on fuel, terrifying to drive in the rain on the highway. Second was a base model civic, it had zero power on the highway.
Speaking from an unAmerican perspective, I had a Kia something-or-other which, other than having start/stop, could have passed for a sh*tbox from 20 years ago. It was from 2017 but it didn't even have bluetooth, and also it gave me swollen knees because the seats were clearly a generic item from a different model and couldn't actually be put into an appropriate position. I also had a Mk8 Golf as a rental which, I mean it's not technically a bad car (though I personally didn't like the clutch or gearshift feel), but it was incredibly annoying. First of all, the touch panel headlight control; I live in a place where it's frequently overcast, rainy, misty. Sometimes it's prudent to have sidelights or even headlights on during the day (especially as the car happened to be grey and was therefore near-invisible in certain conditions), but it defaults to Automatic and isn't intelligent enough to turn its own lights on in poor visibility, so you have tap this panel repeatedly to cycle through the light settings. Next, the climate controls - also a touch panel - aren't illuminated at night. Truly moronic. But the worst, Lane Assist. My gosh, who signed off this clown car nonsense? It cuts in and out at 35mph, which is mid-corner speed for much of my commute, and I'm sure you can imagine how annoying it is to set up your line though the corner, perhaps taking a slightly wider line for a better view, only to have the wheel start fighting you. It also failed to pick up road marking at times, fair enough they're not always well maintained, but then it would think that a random piece of debris, or even a seam in the tarmac, was a road marking, and try to steer me into the verge or into oncoming traffic. Clearly a product of people who have chauffeurs.
Many love to shit on the Yugo. It was cheap and bland but were cheap in the US and reliable if maintained, those Fiat engines were reliable but people treated them like disposable razors. In the Balkans people still drive and even race them.
At my work we have two 2022 Chevy Colorado LT, extended cab, 6 foot bed, fleet trucks, both equipped with the 4 cylinder, 6 speed automatic and are rear wheel drive. One of them has nearly 95,000 miles on it and the other has almost 81,000 miles. And compared to my 2021 F150 XLT, those particular Colorados are garbage. Rough ride, hard seats, and they shake and rattle too much and have cheap plastics. But then again they are fleet vehicles and get used hard. Those two vehicles would have to be my least favorite driving experiences.
Aunt Jalop at it again. Writing about topics they don't know anything about again. Honestly, the only car enthusiast Media I trust right now is Hagerty. Guess everyones expects a $20K car to have the same driving experience as a Ferrari 488.
Had a PT Cruiser for a rental years ago. I pulled into a gas station to check the tire pressure because that POS drove like it had a flat tire or two. Freaking Junk. I've driven my sister's KIA Forte several times and it's a really nice driving car.🤨
