"23 Lemons" Let the games begin!

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Some of those are more than arguable.
 
I'd like to look, but I absolutely HATE those damned pop up ads that clutter sites like that! First time one pops up and jams my screen I'm outta there!! Got to see a whole 2 cars!!! Arrgghh!!
 
cosgig said:
I'd like to look, but I absolutely HATE those damned pop up ads that clutter sites like that! First time one pops up and jams my screen I'm outta there!! Got to see a whole 2 cars!!! Arrgghh!!
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I'm with you. I got to the Pinto and bailed. Their site is pretty bad. tmm
 
cosgig said:
I'd like to look, but I absolutely HATE those damned pop up ads that clutter sites like that! First time one pops up and jams my screen I'm outta there!! Got to see a whole 2 cars!!! Arrgghh!!
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I got 'odometer.com is not responding due to a long-running script' so you saw two more cars than I did.
 
Where did they get their info from?
The only one they got right was the Yugo.
Boy, did they ever bash the K Cars.......
 
Ugh. Internet Journalism at it's best. My guess, is that some hipster "reporter" was given the assignment even though he doesn't own a car or have a license. A quick google/wikipedia search, and he was an expert.
Here's what I learned. K car, Aries, and Reliant all got their own listing. VW Beetles came out in the 70s. Chevy Caprices were hard to work on. Pontiac Bonnevilles were too big to drive.
 
The most blatant BS in the article, IMO is the VW Information. The VW Beetles is the single most successful vehicle ever produced. Whether you like them or not, the fact is, the body style and drive train concept of "The People's Car" was designed by Prof. Porsche during Adolf Hitler's Chancellery, and remained essentially in tact nearly 6-1/2 decades 1938-2003.

No other body style and drive train configuration combination has come even close to that record.

Also, the article claimed that the VW was bad in snow, well, you couldn't prove that by me, I had a 1967 VW Beetle, and a 1969 VW bus, while living in NJ and taking multiple winter camping trips in to NH, VT, Maine, and around New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The fact is, with a standard set of bias ply snow tires, I never (NOT ONE) get into a situation that I could not get out of in snow storms and the aftermath of them.
I ranked BOTH of these VW's as the absolute BEST 2 wheel drive snow vehicles I ever owned.

In fact, back in the 1960's VW even had a commercial touting the Beetle's prowess in the snow, and even climing hills in the snow.
 
I owned a 84 Daytona turbo and it was the biggest piece of crap. The damn thing spent most of its life on the hook. I figured it was first year out so decided to try and trade it in for another Dodge. So to local dealer and salesman looks me dead in the eye and tells me they don't want that piece of crap because they can't sell it. So go down the street to Mercury dealer and traded it in on a Cougar. I drove Ford products for a long time. I just started back to Chrysler products about 10 years ago.
 
Regardless of personal opinion, the Pinto was a huge success for Ford and the auto industry as well. They were a big breakthrough in American small car technology. Plus, They got a bad rap about the "exploding car" myth. It can be easily debunked on the net. Most any car hit the right way will explode. They don't run on water after all.

I agree about the VW too......ESPECIALLY the Rabbit. Those were great little cars.
 
The K-Cars sold very well for a long time, and aside from head gaskets on early model, were very reliable. Americans drove them into the dirt! The turbo-charged and Shelby models have a strong and growing following, too!

Escort? It is an average looking car, made for lower middle class families in need of cheap, reliable transportation. How is it bad? VW Rabbit?

I tolerate the ads until I got the Aries. He bashed the K-Cars once, going after the Reliant and Aries specifially after that is unecessary.
 
The VW Bug made top 25 lemon? I don't think so. Followed by the Ponyiac Bonneville? And they pictured a convertible that looked badass. If you skipped any or all of this article, you did yourself a favor.
 
How did they come up with this stuff. Must have been a Smart driver that thought the Bonneville was "too big to drive". It was a cool car if you ask me. Then bash VW Bugs, and say the Caprice was hard to work on? If that is the case I must be a better mechanic than I thought. The K car saved Chryslers butt.

I must admit though, my dad had a 83 Ford Escort, and it was a paper weight from the day he bought it. Worthless on a hot day thanks to a cast iron block and aluminum heads.
 
A friend and I who worked at the local Ford dealer wanted to be the first to put a small block Ford in a Yugo. We actually got a body and drive train but it never materialized.
 
fratzog lover said:
The Celebrity came out in the 60's. Really?
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Oldsmobile used the Celebrity name as a package on the Delta 88 in the 1960s. That has to be what the idiot who wrote the article is talking about.
 
67cudafb said:
I owned a 84 Daytona turbo and it was the biggest piece of crap. The damn thing spent most of its life on the hook.
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I had the exact same issue with a MB450SL. I still rank it among the worse cars I ever owned.
It was the only MB I ever owned, and it was terrible. Bad enough, in fact, that I'd never even considered another.

Also, I had a 1990 Accalim as a company car I had it for 16 months. The company decided it was too costly to own. The cost per mile of this 4 cyl. FWD "economy" car was greater than full sized V8 Chevy truck it replaced. Within a 16 month period, the car spend 17 weeks at the local Dodge dealer for one thing or another.

It was towed in 6 times in 17 months, and it cost 6 hotel nights over 4 different occasions when I got stranded out of town and had to wait for the car to be repaired.

Everything, from crap as stupid as a transmission cooling line to a wheel bearing, to to a seal on the rack and pinion, to a "no start" situation, to the transaxle not shifting into OD, to losing first gear, intake manifold vacuum leak, loss of rear breaks, and a bunch of other crap.

The company decided that the cost of operation of that car was just too high, and after 16 months, I was told to trade it for another car or truck. I opted for a 1992 Ford Crown Vic LX. It was excellent. Besides normal service, I had no break downs, no repairs and no down time, I had the CV for 40 months, no issues whatsoever. btw, The cost of operation of the Crown Vic was slightly less than half of the Acclaim's, and I drove it 2 1/2 times longer.
 
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