Lame how they talk about the '99 Intrepid while showing the '93. Then they talk about the 2.7L sludge engine but show an older 3.5L. Get it straight bro.
People need to understand that we could fix our cars back then. Up until the late 2000s, parts for just about anything were usually cheap and easily attainable. Only high end vehicles were expensive to maintain. Now whether it's a Honda or a Mercedes... it's gonna cost a ton.
@@DecadesOfHistory20 I parked the Explorer for a 2004 Ranger. Parked it with 315k in 2016 for a 2014 Silverado. It died at 240k. Driving a 2019 F150 V8 now.
The Pontiac Sunfire looked awesome as a concept car at the Chicago McCormick Place car show, but when they actually made the car it didn’t look like the cool concept one at all. A Yugo was blown off the Mackinac Bridge from a gust of wind going through the slits in the road talk about an awful vehicle my heart goes out to that woman who was killed.
The vehicle shown rolling over at 3:06 is a Ford Expedition, NOT an Explorer. Also, faulty tires are not a problem with the vehicle; it is a problem with the tire.
I loved the x90 lol.. one of my very first jobs was filling out recall cards for Firestone tires when I was an early teen my best friend's mom worked for a Ford dealership and me and her filled out thousands of recall cards for money. I like how you were talking about the 2.7 l but show the 3.5 LOL
The x-90 was a very interesting car. I can see why there is a cult following. Showing the 3.5 was lazy editing on my part. I'm curious to see how many more people notice. Thank you for watching!
The x90 is a tracker/sidekick with a different body shell over the frame. It has great off-road performance. But the tracker had way more space and seating.
Lanos is a cult car. It was designed by the guy who created DMC 12, and suspension was created by Porsche. it was cheap, design still looks fresh, and reliability was not so bad. You still can find a bunch of them in Ukraine and they don't look too outdated.
I had the aspire. If you tried to drive it like a sports car you'd be disappointed. If you drove it like an economy car it would prove itself to be a good little car that was fuel efficient.
The Dodge Intrepid was trying to use the good looks of the Chrysler /Lamborghini Portofino to its advantage- & it looked a lot better than most cars of the era!
My explorer was probably the most reliable vehicle i owned so far only had to do standard maintenance to it meanwhile my new to me Chevy trailblazer already went through a transmission wish I still had my explorer
B.S... Had 1997 Explorer Eddie Bauer Edition. Powerful (for the time) and only soccer moms rip the wheel & roll them when a tire goes flat. Top Gear had a race driver test it blowing tires w/ no hands & didn't roll. Lawyers ruined that car. Sold it w/ near 300K miles, looking great & running perfect. Mustang 5.0L motor. Still used in crazy race cars.
The Ford Explorer was a great vehicle. They had a contract with Goodyear tires the whole thing about them being an “unsafe SUV” was a huge scam, the whole thing was a push to “cancel” the evil “SUV” it was among the first to really appeal as a luxury SUV, which the greenies hated., because it had an evil V8 engine.
GM sold Cavaliers and Sunfires at a loss. The idea was to sell them as introductory, cheap cars and create brand loyalty for future purchases of higher end cars.
This guy clearly was not in America during the 1990s and most likely wasn't even alive that far back. The Ford Explorer was literally one of the greatest sellers of the 1990s and nobody seemed to give a fuck about it's Is environmental impact. I hated the explorer because I'm a Toyota guy and these were notorious to have terrible transmissions in in every every offering of the automaticaversions but they sold like mad.
I thought the geo storm was pretty cool and my 99 sunfire was my first car, that 2.2 ran forever only had to get rod of it due to rust after 380k miles, and the aespite was supposed to be barebones it was the geo metro competitor meant for high gas mileage
1999 Honda Civic si and Honda prelude the nice one worst cars ever owned. I used to get smacked around by truck's left and right everyday I felt embarrassed my P.O.S company van 2013 Toyota sienna is faster 😂.
Concorde LXi, run likea hell, but the Concorde LHS, worth buying... if cheap and still running well... REAL cheap, like $1000 for a near mint example...
- Shows budget cars - Criticises material quality and performance Also complaining about safety is such an invalid argument. Car manufacturers did not care about safety all that much and even successful models from the 90s lack basic safety.
Funny how you point out Concorde/Intrepid, but skip out on the cavalier version of the sunfire. Plus you completely missed Hyundai (all of them) in the 90s
When you buy a new car you have new tyres installed on it you re not supposed to replace them after few miles. Plus, if the tyre is the cause of a big crash, ne need to replace the tyre, you don't have car anymore.
2:00 The Multipla was no "worst" car. Its design was challenging, but it was actually a good car. Fiat just tried a completely different approach to the family hauler and failed.
When a project is ahead of its intended audience... But do we realize how many heavy SUVs, large on the outside, small on the inside and with hideous lines are being sold today?
@@studiocalder818 If the Multipla was sold today it would still be considered "ugly". It still isn't beautiful but over time it has become cool (sort of).
It's a pretty niche car overall. Not for the general mass really, but those that has it will either love it or hate it. It's like a Jimny/Sidekick/Vitara for the quirky people. Personally I like it, since I like the Jimny and Vitara too, and most Suzuki cars overall
Yugo yeech my Uncle bought one reduced price when they went out of business... a week after he bought it the speedometer spun in circles like a toy car and in the same time frame the exhaust pipe separated from the manifold adapter as it wasn't welded at the factory. The rear wheel bearing seized up in 3 weeks due to not being greased at the factory. All sorts of things happened over the life of the vehicle: The throttle body fell apart, brake lights had to be rewired, front brake pads lasted only a year. With all that it did run 115,000 miles and went to the junk yard with very little rust.
I owned a 1990 Ford festiva. It had the 1.3 but as long as I didn't have too much weight in car that thing would do pretty good. Used to drive it like a rally car on dirt and gravel roads in West Virginia.
I commuted round trip something like 110 miles a day in mine. I worked as a retail asst. manager for Rent-A-Center in the San Fernando Valley area. Then, they transferred me to Oxnard. I had a '93 Mustang GT and did not want to put that many miles on it, so found a Festiva for $900. No problems with the little car doing that for about 8 months until I quit and worked much closer to home. I stupidly sold it to a couch surfing friend who really needed a car for around $750. He wasn't a great friend which is why I said 'stupidly'. He never registered it and it got towed a year or so later, and when I could have gotten it back, the impound yard wanted $600 which I did not have at that time. Daewoo/Hyundai made little car which out qualitied (I just made up that word) the contemporary Hyundai cars sold as Hyundias at that time.
Multipla: When a project is ahead of its intended audience... But do we realize how many heavy, useless SUVs, large on the outside, small on the inside and with hideous lines are being sold today? Design (form follows function) against styling (formas an end in itself)
@@derbruzzler7574 So you have never driven a Multipla nor been a passenger in one to be able to compare it with a delivery van. Pleasant to drive, comfortable, crazy visibility, definitely ... more compact than a van
2001 explorer I had was reliable as hell. Sold still running good at nearly 300,00 miles. Still could occasionally get the new car scent it had from the AC now and then. Miss old reliable sometimes.
I'm 16 years old and just got my first car in January. It also is a 2001 Explorer, and I have committed to driving it until the wheels fall off, then I'm putting the wheels back on and continuing driving. Plus, it only has 145k miles, so there's still a lot of exploring left to do.
I bought a 1991 Capri Turbo Convertible 5-speed back around 1997. It was fast & fun but being built in Australia, parts were already hard to get + my wife hated driving a stick shift... I sold it. It was so tiny it amplified the feel of speed & acceleration. Only owned it for one summer. I also had that Explorer 4x4 in a short wheelbase 2-door stick shift. Loved it but it got rusty. On a quiet night you can HEAR a Ford rust.
I had a 1996 Pontiac Sunfire. I had to get the transmission repaired and eventually replaced, the head gasket repaired and eventually replaced, and the AC repaired and eventually replaced. Still, I was able to put around 90,000 miles on it before I got rid of it.
The Suzuki X-90 was a joke. Fiat Multipla...those were never sold in America. Who are you to diss the 90's Ford Explorer just because of the tire controversy? Their powertrains were robust. Land Rover Discovery...not surprisingly, it's a British car, so of course it's going to break down. Pontiac Sunfire...my teacher had one when she was in high school. It was her first car because she worked at McDonalds. It's a rebadged Cavalier. Daewoo never had a chance here in America. Hyundai and Kia have improved. And Pineapple Express rocks. Chrysler Concorde/Dodge Intrepid...the 2.7L V6/3.5L V6 engines sucked ass. They were also sold as the LHS and 300M. Ford Aspire...yeah, that car was stupid. Mercury Capri...the Miata can kick its ass. The Yugo sucked. I had a teacher in 5th grade whose parents owned one.
I had a '98 LR Discovery, series I. One of the BEST vehicles I've ever owned. Changed oil every 3,000 miles, new battery, front disk brake pads, plugs and wires is all I did to it over a 15 year period. NEVER left me stranded, never leaked, or rusted, and an off-road BEAST. NOT SUITED as a SOCCER MOM vehicle!
X90 should have been heavily marketed to snowbirds and people who RV in general as a great second car option. Such a lightweight little car to tow was a better option than scooters or two wheelers imo, and could easily drive on easy off-road areas such as getting to fishing spots, something a couple might not want to subject their regular car to. The Suzuki Samurai of the 80s had already established itself as a great offroad vehicle (as far as lightweight offroad vehicles went), so selling them as little 'adventure' cars for those who RV in the Southwest and the South in general would have been natural.
You can still meet many of them in good shape and operating on the streets in Poland (they were built here also, so were ones of the cheepest). Spare parts were very cheap. And from ppl who owned them I've only heard good things about Lanos' reliability and low fuel consumption. However I've never found these cars attractive cause of really shitty and straight ugly interiors.
The 1990s was a very bad time for Suzuki in the American market. Most of their vehicles had bad performance and numerous safety issues. I'm surprised you didn't mention the 1997 Chevy Malibu. Loaded with poor quality materials.
I had a 95 landrover discovery. It got horrible gas mileage and it was slow but it was great in Florida rain storms. I got rid of it because I was opening the hood everytime I drove it.
It looks like little has changed with Land Rover since then. What about the Cadillac Catera? You know, “The Caddie that zigs” - the weakest marketing ploy in automotive history.
If you're going to downplay a car, use the correct model year for your reference, picture and videos. Older models that didn't even have the motor option that you talk about should not be shown when you're talking about that motor being awful.
There was nothing wrong with the tires of the ford explorer. There was roll over problems because of the suspension and high centre of gravity. To fix that ford wanted the tire pressure to be lowered to 26 PSI which caused over heating of the tires. Firestone wanted 35 PSI which was what they designed the tires for. It was like driving on 4 flat tires.
In no particular order, here's the ten worst automotive mistakes of 1990-1999: (1) Stealth / 3000GT was FWD-based (2) Stealth / 3000GT was wide and heavy but couldn't tuck wide tires (3) Eclipse GSX was grossly overpriced (4) RX-7 FD was grossly overpriced (5) Dodge's Daytona replacement was FWD and no V8 instead of competing with 5.0 Mustang and 5.7 Camaro/Firebird. (6) Mustang went to the huge, heavy, weak, underpowered 4.6 with T45 while Camaro correctly added a T56 to the 5.7L (7) 454SS added OD for '91 but went from 3.73 to 4.10 rear axle ratio instead of 3.23 (8) second gen Miata didn't get wider wheels and tires (9) Syclone discontinued for 1992 (10) neither Camaro nor S-10 nor Astro got either the L99 4.3L V8 in '94, nor the LR4 4.8L V8 in 1999.
X90, same engine that was in the tracker and sidekick, and the Samurai, had even less power. you put a Ford Explorer on this list? The best selling SUV ever? It was Firestones problem, just like the Firestone 500 tires of the 70s with their tread separations. and Rovers are garbage no matter the year.. and fuel economy of SUVs?? I think some of your reasons for vehicles on this list are way off. So no mention of the Mountaineer? Or the sunfire's twin the Cavalier? When i worked for Chrysler in the early 2000s, were called the 2.7 V6 "The Sludgemaster" Massive kudos for using a lot of clips from Motorweek. Aspire was dreadful, so less of a car then the Festiva it replaced.But it was basic transportation it didnt come with features like the Tercel. Ive driven a few Mercury Capris, they were fun. Mazda 323 based. It wasnt a Miata competitor nor was it meant to be. It was outdated abd we have no idea why Ford brought it over from down under. Ive owned several Miata NAs and a 2019, the Mercury even with the turbo was never marketed as a sports car.
My 1997 LR Discovery was the worst piece of garbage I ever dumped $40K on. I was told by the service manager to dump it before the warranty was up. The vehicle started to fall apart months after delivery. All I can say is at least I didn't get the Range Rover. Apparently they are no better, even today.
