What cars would you never own ?

[GH85Carrera]

Nothing Chinese ever.

BMW

British cars with Lucas electronics.

[Eric Hahl]

Land Rover

Jaguar

Ok, anything British.

[chapo]

BMW two were enough. Any FCA Dodge or Ram or Jeep

[fred cook]

Originally Posted by mattdavis11

Pinto, Yugo, Geo Metro.

I would take the Pinto over any GM product (except maybe a 1963 Corvette split window coupe)! Actually, the Pinto station wagons were pretty neat little cars, plus they had the fuel tank mounted in a safer location! Next on my do not own list would be Japanese cars/trucks and third would be the above mentioned Yugo.

[pavulon]

Citroen
Peugeot
Skoda

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

1. Anything made in Korea or China.

2. BMW - They've always been overrated.

3. Any "Japanese car" not made in Japan.

But I would own a "current" Rolls-Royce.

I've had the classics in the past and they're just beautiful but extremely dated.

[svandamme]

Not one single Opel.
Wouldn't even want to drive one
If I was interviewing for a job.. and they tell me they have Opel company cars.. I'de get up right away and walk the F out.

They are soulless vehicles for people who don't care about cars


Dacia Dusters.. the cheapo SUV for people who can't afford a real one
then when they get one.. they drive on the left lane at 110... and get all aggro when you try to overtake em.

Skoda Superb... the cheapo big saloon, there's nothing super bout them, People who want a big fancy car but can't get a BMW 5series get the Superb.
Also the same sort to hang left and block traffic. May they all be magically whisked up in the air, and moved to a car crusher.. with the occupants still in it.

[livi]

Any car preowned by people from non skiing nations.

[svandamme]

lol

[Captain Ahab Jr]

anything American or British

[slow&rusty]

1970s and 1980s BMWs were (still are) amazing cars...give them love.

Anything made by British Leyland is garbage.

Lots of Fiats too...poor build quality and reliability.

Its hard to take Korean and Chinese cars seriously even though they have come a long long way

[GH85Carrera]

The list of cars I would not own is MUCH longer than the list of cars I would own.

[sc_rufctr]

I've owned a bunch of VWs over the years... At 55 I can't see myself in one ever again.

[Starless]

Originally Posted by RWebb

anybody have an aversion to Italian?

I hear ya, but the X1/9 I had was the most fun car I've ever owned. Dare I say even more than my 911. Reliability was NOT it's strong point, nor was it fast, but it was a joy to drive. 135K miles when I finally parked it.

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The list of cars I would not own is MUCH longer than the list of cars I would own.

I think I'm in this camp.

No truck, SUV, crossover - I'm a car guy
No M-B cars. I have had 2 totaled and that is the universe telling me never to own one again. I do like how they look


I own a 2019 VW Jetta - Hopefully the last cat I will ever buy.
Still have my 83 944 - I'm the original owner unsure how much longer I will keep it. I'm getting old.

[asphaltgambler]

Some good responses here��. In my years on earth- have either driven or worked on just about everything you could imagine that had wheels attached, even some that didn't.

1) Without a doubt - Yugo
2) Anything pre 2005 with a V12
3) AMC Pacer

No question the Yugo was the worst design, worst execution, worst quality in modern automotive history. So much so it made the Renault of the same era look like a BMW in comparison. They were so bad that owners quit paying the note, let the finance company repossess them. That number grew to a point that no auto finance company would underwrite them, no one. The only dealers could get rid of them is put the sale on the customers credit card along with other inventive ways to turn the inventory.

Every V12 I ever drove was a complete disappointment in terms of performance. Yes they sound great, electric smooth but did nothing for me. Possibly a well tuned pre smog Ferrari may be an exception but the only F cars I experienced was later

Lastly the Pacer. It wasn't even stupid looking enough to be cool, just stupid. One of the last of those I worked on was in 2001 and was in mint shape. I had to ask the owner, a middle aged woman at the time, what drove her to buy a Pacer? She in fact was the original owner. She replied it was the heaviest ( lbs) car in her budget. That equates safety to her. By the way - she was a math teacher.

[GG Allin]

Anything with the word Rover in it.

[Zeke]

Jeez, where do I start? How about 99.5% of everything on the road.

[nota]

for a long time the date was the thing

pre-72's no smogged junk please

now no FWD I just hate to work on them

but the choices get less every year now
even my old volvo's are getting a collector price bump now

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by asphaltgambler

Some good responses here��. In my years on earth- have either driven or worked on just about everything you could imagine that had wheels attached, even some that didn't.

1) Without a doubt - Yugo
2) Anything pre 2005 with a V12
3) AMC Pacer

No question the Yugo was the worst design, worst execution, worst quality in modern automotive history. So much so it made the Renault of the same era look like a BMW in comparison.

.

I disagree!

We toured the Revs Institute car museum. It is beyond great, it is a world class car museum.

The tour goes from the very earliest cars, and how they developed, race cars galore, lots of Porsches, and just WOW everywhere.

At the end of the tour, they have a Skoda. It makes the Yugo look like a Roll Royce. They were built of toxic materials. When Germany reunified, Germany wanted to get rid of the polluting dangerous death traps. They could not go to a conventional scrap process because of all the toxic materials used in manufacture. The had to drain the fluids, and then shred them into to very small pieces, and mix that with road paving materiel and use it to pave roads. That locked the toxic materials into the pavement.

To change from low beam to high beam, the driver had to exit the car, and flip a switch on EACH headlight!



It was without a doubt the worst car ever made. And the citizens had to be rich, and wait for a long time to have the honor of buying one. Soviet engineering at its best.