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I believe the Vega was the worst ever from the Big 3. The Yugo was the world champ POS, though.
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I am embarrassed to say the first new car I ever bought was a Chevy Citation in 1981. I blame my sister, she had bought one two years earlier and couldn't stop raving about it.
Couldn't wait to get rid of that piece of crap as soon as it was paid off...…..
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Every auto maker has its duds. Honda airbags kills you. Toyota sudden acceleration kills you. Might as well follow OUR PRESIDENT and BUY AMERICAN! By the way, OrangeOkie - what do you drive? Is this thread just to make you fell good about your Asian junk?
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Had an 84 Citation X-11. Pretty darn good car. Sold it at 280,000, last I heard, it had another 100,000 on it. Good handling, fast for the time. Good looking, too, to my eye.
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Pontiac Aztec. From the same company that produced the 389 GTO and the 455 SD Trans Am? That thing looks like a miniature garbage truck
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That silver Citation above was not a bad looking car for that time. Kind of reminds me of the old AMC Eagle 4wd cars of the 80's. Remember those?
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I always thought the eagle was kinda cool
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That silver Citation above was not a bad looking car for that time. Kind of reminds me of the old AMC Eagle 4wd cars of the 80's. Remember those? Mine was white, went around 125 top end, 28 mpg, and cornered very well. They did about .83g on a skidpad.135hp, 2.8 liter v6, 2550 pounds.
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Had an 84 Citation X-11. Pretty darn good car. Sold it at 280,000, last I heard, it had another 100,000 on it. Good handling, fast for the time. Good looking, too, to my eye. My Uncle had a citation when i was a kid. It had a TON of miles on it and developed a knock. He sold it to a guy that drove it with the knock for seriously I dont know how many years. At one point I was sitting at a stoplight and I hear a car knocking next to me I look over and its the citation and I figured it had died cause I hadn't seen it in a few years. Hell its probably still running
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had one of these i bought for 200, drove the chit out of it for 2 yrs then sold it for 500.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Didn't Ford come out something similar to the K car about the same time? Ford Tempo. The Chrysler K car pulled them out of bankruptcy, and paid off govt loans at Lee Iooccoa's helm.
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Like the look of that Eagle.
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Didn't Ford come out something similar to the K car about the same time? Ford Tempo. When my wife and I were in college, she had a Mercury Topaz 2dr, which was supposed to be a sportier version of the Tempo. It was a slug, but I'll be danged if it wasn't a solid car for as long as she owned it. Cheap car too. Had those terrible motorized seatbelts though. They'd groan and grumble along the doorframe and I was always hitting my head on them.
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we had a ford escort that my mom bought new, between her my dad, me and my brothers driving it, it had over 400,000 miles on it and was still running when we got rid of it.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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The Chevy Vega had to be about the biggest piece of shyt in my memory. Followed closely by the Chevette and Ford pinto. I had a Tempo and while slow it was a good, dependable car. My own personal award for biggest piece of shyt goes to the Chevy S-10 Blazer I had. Something went wrong with that heap every other week. It was so bad I've never bought another GM product since I got rid of it in 1996 and I never will.
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I think the X-car was the worst but very, very close behind was the Chevy Vega. I was forced to park my Suburban and drive my brother's Vega while he spent a year in Europe for school. The idea was to save on gas and I was OK with that. But I HATED being seen in that crapmobile! I remember the clutch went "Ka-Blooey" at 20,000 miles. What a heap!
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I think the X-car was the worst but very, very close behind was the Chevy Vega. I was forced to park my Suburban and drive my brother's Vega while he spent a year in Europe for school. The idea was to save on gas and I was OK with that. But I HATED being seen in that crapmobile! I remember the clutch went "Ka-Blooey" at 20,000 miles. What a heap!
RS The original clutch on my X11 was still functioning at 280,000. Musta gotten a good one.
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Aztec was Pontiac brand, made in south america IIRC. Kinda looks like all the other crap SUVs nowadays
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I think the X-car was the worst but very, very close behind was the Chevy Vega. I was forced to park my Suburban and drive my brother's Vega while he spent a year in Europe for school. The idea was to save on gas and I was OK with that. But I HATED being seen in that crapmobile! I remember the clutch went "Ka-Blooey" at 20,000 miles. What a heap!
RS buddy in high school had a vega with a 454 in it, ran pretty good.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Going down, instead of up
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