not a single Chrysler product mads the top 10

[jessipup]

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11381094/11/10-worst-cars-of-all-time.html

 

[Richard Cranium]

Why does this not surprise me?

 

[pabster]

I'm surprised the Aspen/Volare didn't make that list...

 

[70rr-brian]

The K car should have been.

 

[Moparsmitty]

Remember the old joke about why Yugos have rear window defrosters? To keep your hands warm in winter while you're pushing the car.:rolling:

 

[Bruzilla]

Volares were great cars! Granted, the road runner didn't live up to it's lineage, but for a mid-sized grocery getter it was great.

I'm surprised the Mustang II came in on the list where it did. Again, I think it's pretty unfair to judge a car against its predecessors, which were built with different market segments in mind, rather than judging them on their own merits.

My pick for number one would have been the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique. When I was traveling all the time for the Navy, I drove a lot of rental cars, and a Contour was the only car I got that I had to take back to Hertz within minutes of leaving the airport because it was such a total POS.

 

[jessipup]

A fellow walked in to the parts store and said
" I'd like a gas cap for my Yugo.. The parts man said ok that sounds like a fair trade to me"

 

[MarPar]

or what about a gremlin/pacer?? i thought for sure it would be up there

 

[RustyRatRod]

or what about a gremlin/pacer?? i thought for sure it would be up there

They were not Mopars.

 

[MarPar]

sure they were! they used MoPar parts. that's good enough for me.

 

[Richard Cranium]

A fellow walked in to the parts store and said
" I'd like a gas cap for my Yugo.. The parts man said ok that sounds like a fair trade to me"

 

[pabster]

sure they were! they used MoPar parts. that's good enough for me.

I gotta agree with Rusty on this one. They may have used Mopar parts, and I like Javelins and all, but AMC is a completely separate manufacturer. I'm not going to look at an AMC and call it a Mopar.

 

[Cranky]

The K car really wasn't all that bad....at least not bad enough to make the top 10 list. I would never buy one but did find an 87 Shadow with 30k miles for 700 bucks. We drove it to 100k before a head gasket let go. Except for the rear brakes wearing fast, everything else was fine. I fixed the rear brake problem by filing the adjusters into the #13 drawer.

 

[Moparsmitty]

We had a whole fleet of new K cars at work back in the late 80s. I guess that the company got a screaming deal on them when they bought them. They weren't that bad. I liked 'em because they had a/c and our trucks didn't. We drove the hell out of them and they seemed to be at least as reliable as the rest of the throwaway cars of that era. They were actually pretty good in the ice & snow if it didn't get too deep. Didn't Lee Iacocca claim that they saved Chrysler?