First generation Aerostar, Taurus. I know people who had serious problems with these vehicles. Corvair, Vw bus & beetles. all Dodges

 

I'll second MattsF250's post. My wife has a 2001 VW Jetta...I absolutely love the car, but the car has numerous problems. We bought it used (from the dealership manager) with 19,000 miles. After a month I had to take it in for some warranty work and found out that there was 10 pages of work already done under warranty. Since then, the factory warranty (2 yrs, 24k miles) has expired and I now have to pay $100 everytime I make a warranty claim. All I can say is thank god I bought the extended warranty. I love the car, but I won't buy another VW.

 

Ford Fairmont - Ford at its lowest point.
Dono

 

Mercury Topaz.

Transmission, water pump, fuel pump, radiator, alternator, AC compressor, distributor, ignition module, new battery, TPS sensor, IAC motor, headlights, windshield, power window motors and much more if you can imagine that. Stuff still breaks on it. CV boots replaced just yesterday. Very troublesome car, very expensive to keep running. A headache and a half.

 

Also before you buy something, there is this web site which has lots of feedback about a model/year. I go there all the time. It is a very neat site created by user feedback, not a single opinion.

carsurvey.org

 

88 Toyota Camry, I just put 500 dollars into it, probably more than it was worth.

wooo - 500 posts

 

79 AMC concord

need I say more?

 

1971 chevy van... 305 with a powerglide 2 speed auto..

 

in this order...

198? VW Rabbit Diesel
1991 Ford Aerostar
1993 Ford Tempo
1972 Pontiac LeMans
1977 Jeep Cherokee

The rabbit went through 3 different engines before we finally scrapped it....dont know how many miles we on it...would only drive 55mph, 45 if you turned on the AC or drove up a hill. had to use about a 1/3 can of wd40 to get it started each morning....only thing that was good about it was that it got pretty decent mileage.

The aerostar my parents bought with 10k on it, put over 160k on it when all said and done...by then just about the whole car had been replaced, including the sliding door which feel off.

The tempo is not to bad, it just has had its share of bad luck...er bad drivers... all my brothers drove that for our first car, there are 4 of us so it has taken quite a lot in its 160k miles.

the lemans is really a cool car to look at, real sleek with great lines....only think is with almost 200k on the stock engine and 75k on the trans it is starting to go....rust is killing it slowly.

the jeep is a new comer, but in that last few months have almost spend what we paid for it getting it to run and drive like it should. another cool looking truck that if properly fixed up will be a sweet machine.

 

70 chevell SS
74 T-bird
85 diesel suburban

 

66 Vw Bus
81 Pontiac Grand Prix

Both were my parents cars, the VW Bus would die driving up the road, I can recall the old man pulling it with a truck, trying to get it running, and it would,nt fire, he was so wound up at the VW Dealership, fighting with them he passed out,,, Now that is stress!!
The 81 Grand-Prix just nickle & Dimed them to the brink,,, then the final straw, was when mom started it to warm it up,,,,,,,,well It actually caught fire 10 mins later,,,,,that was it,,Only FORD'S after that, with out really any problems, maybe a alternator or so, thats it.

Later,,,,,,,,,,,Mark

 

Ford Taurus, while in the shop for a transmission rebuild at 50K (and they all require it, a trans rebuild at 50K should be part of the regularly scheduled maintenance), you can watch the paint peel off!

 

worst car was a 92 taurus sho. It was fun to drive when it ran but I had it for 5 years and it was broke for a solid 3 years. what a POS. I'll never buy another american car again, except for a muscle car or a ford truck.

 

my 91 grand am sucked. first all the ignition burned up cost 800 dollars and they did not put the coil packs in time so after that it had bad take off and backfired. the tranny solinoid would stick so when you stop at a light you would have to put it in neutral or it would not shift down and it would kill itself. you had to rev it up and slam it in gear to take off from the red light. then the window gears messed up, ac stopped, ignition switch screwed up, dropped a valve and that was the end of that car. all of those gm cars have many problems.

 

Both of the worst cars I've ever driven belonged to my ex-fiancee. First one was a 1993 Geo Prizm 4 door. From the factory it came with no power steering, power brakes, or air conditioning. The radio that it came with she replaced with a CD player, which promptly fried the fuse box and all the wiring. In the winter the thing HAD to be parked inside if there was any chance of it starting in the morning... I used more cans of starting fluid on it than on any tractor I ever had. And on top of everything, the thing was painted a sort of faded out blue-silver that flaked off from the top down.

The other one she still has: 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser. When she got it, it was still under warranty, and thank heaven for that. While it had all the things the Geo did'nt, it also had things like a leaking sunroof, brakes that wore so badly that they had to be replaced, a serpentine belt that failed twice within a year, and tires that wore unevenly (left front and right rear, which led me to think the thing had the frame tweaked). But, she still has it, and since she moved out of my house, she's had to drive it an average of 80 miles a day to get back and forth to work. I'm guessing that she won't be keeping it too much longer on the gravel road she lives on now.

Honorable mention: John Deere 4440 tractor. I bought it a farm sale, was told it ran fine, but needed work. One complete teardown later, it still did. Kept it for about 3 months and sold it for the same amount I'd given for it. The only JD I've ever owned, and the only one I ever will.