When I lived in England, someone GAVE me a late 70s Dodge Omni. Looked like this POS but had Omni script on the C pillar. It wouldn't idle and finally blew a water pump. I sold it for scrap.
I also had a Mercury Sable that looked pretty much like this one. I believe it was a 1988 or 89. It was a total piece of junk. Can't believe I paid money for it. My BIL, who was and still is a car dealer, talked me out of buying a late 80s Nissan Maxima for this POS. His logic: the Nissan has 70k on the clock, by the time you pay it off it will have well over 100k. Hmmm, just saw a similar Maxima last week and it was still going strong. Bad choice