The World's Worst Cars: Not every car is a masterpiece...
1) 1960s Mini Cooper. (Anyone have a spare hand grenade?)
2) Toyota Prius. (It cannot even rev! I mean 70hp, WHAT?! So you get 65miles per gallon. Those 65 miles are spent under 25mph!)
3) Toyota Echo. (C'mon, 108hp in 2003?, somethins wrong.)
4) Kia Rio. (And all other Kias.[not Nokia's])
5) Saturn, all Saturns. (With dent proof body panels, who needs horsepower, or an engine in that case?)
6) All French cars: Citroen, Renault, Peugeot. (Too bad they don't make their cars like their cheese.)
7) Lada 1.2L. (With 58hp in a Ruzzn car, what else do u need? The site said these babies can travel over any terrain, except that of rutted earth, so basically, it can't travel.[There is no pavement in the CCCP.])
8) AMC Gremlin. (With 132hp in a V8, who needs a driveshaft? This car had a big, weak V8 in the middle of the oil crisis. Smart move AMC. No wonder they went under.)
9) Chryler PT Cruiser. (I love Chrysler, its just this car! What, is this 1930?)
10) Pontiac Aztec. (Did a Pontiac assembly plant explode and they tried to put a car together from the scraps? If the Aztecs were still alive, they'd have sacrificed GM's Pontiac Design Team!)
11) 1958 Subaru 360. (umm, 16 horsepower, okay...My grandpa's lawn tractor has 17hp with 1 cylinder!)
12) Geo Prizm. (Yes! Mom, I got 105 hp! I rule the world!!!)
13) Hoods Rumpo. (Those d*mn images keep shooting me, I can't beat the mission.)
14) Honda Insight. (Ok, a 1.0Litre 3-clyinder engine does not =Fun. They call it a 'hybrid' because they tried to make plastic pistons and connecting rods. Yep.)
15) Dodge Neon. (Ranked 2nd most feminine car in USA. Ha!)
16) Daihatsu Mira. (You know the hood scoop gives it an extra 300 horsepower?!)
17) Toyota Tercel. (A tercel is a medieval hawk, enough said.)
18) Minivans. (A family car that destroys the ego of any real man.)
19) Mitsubishi Montero. (Floor the gas pedal and it maintains the same speed. You must plan an alternate route to work to avoid going up hills. It's not ugly, it's OOGLEY!)
20) 1990s Acura 'Tegra with 3 wheels. ("CV Joint, Out!", Ask Andrew.)
21) Ford Focus. (Ford Focus NOT Fast. I hate that saying. Floor it, and the tranny hits the floor, Get it?)
22) Ford Escort. (It's called that because you need an escort to get places, in case it breaks down.)
23) Honda Civic. (This is the car that the punk teenager on your street owns and RICES out to try and be cool. [RICE= Rough Idle and Cut-off Exhaust. or Really Immoble Crappy Engine. ] He wakes you up every morning with the coffee-can-muffler you can fit your head into. The front facia scrapes the curb when he backs out of the driveway, and the car is like 4 different colors. The wing on the rear is higher than the trailer of an 18-wheeler, and all the windows have 0% tint on them. The car cannot even accelerate without redlining the engine, and he has never won a race with his car. The retail value = $3000. The price for the mods = $100,000. Do me a favor, go to your local Home Depot, buy a dumptruck and 100 bags of mulch. Drive to his house and bury his shame. Thanks.)
24) Daewoo Lanos. (Yeah 14inch wheels!!! This car has one of the worst crash test ratings in the world.)
25) Mitsubishi Lancer American version. (What the hell did Mitsu do to their best car?! It looks like Azab sat on the clay model in the production studio, but they continued production of it.)
26) 1959 Chevy Corvair. (Dont you love a rear engine, rear wheel-drive car? I do, if its a Porsche or Beetle, but not a Corvair! The rear engine made the front end so light that at highway speeds your steering became almost nothing because the front wheels had no weight on them. Chevy fixed this by putting the gas tank in front. Great, now you can not only crash, but explode and burn too!!!)
27) 1980 AMC Pacer. (AMC tried to make a small sporty car, but ended up with a cross between a cosmic-sized sheetmetal gerbil, a rusty food processor, and a shoehorn.)
28) 1977 Chevy Chevette. (This is NOT a Chevelle or a Corvette, or even close to a combination of the two. It's a compact 4-seater and those glued-on faux wood panels really finished it off. Yeah, right. "If I got on the Interstate without being run over, the car would creep towards 55. About an hour later, I'd reach it. Then, the shaking would begin.""An engine surrounded by 4 pieces of drywall." Quotes from loyal customers.)
29) 1973 Ford Pinto. (This car came with a baby-poop orange paint color. It could do 75mph in 2nd gear and 70mph in 4th gear. Yeah.)
30) Chevy Vega. (Um, I'll let some pleased owners tell you why this car is on this list: "When the rear end went on my Vega, the Chevy dealer accused me of racing it. Racing who? My grandfather in his wheelchair?" "As near as I could tell, the car was built from compressed rust. ""My Chevy Vega actually broke in half going over railroad tracks. The whole rear end came around slightly to the front, sort of like a dog wagging its tail." "Burned so much oil, it was single handedly responsible for the formation of OPEC." There you go.)
31) Yugo. ("I once test drove a Yugo. During the drive, the radio fell out, the stick shift knob fell off in my hand, the muffler fell off its hooks, and I saw daylight through the strip around the windshield." Another pleased customer.)
32) Renault Dauphine. ("A side impact from a bicycle totalled my Dauphine after only 1 year of use." ok.)
33) Dodge Aspen. ("This car began to rust while it was still in the showroom." "The stalling problem was so bad that I had to take a clockwise route to work so I could make all right turns, and not risk stalling on a left turn in front of oncoming traffic." These people are funny.)
34) 1950s Desoto Firedome. (There's one shredded and dumped in the woods by Suburban Propane.)
35) 1980 Lotus Europa. (My grandpa stuck his hand under the dash of one and I personally saw the thing catch fire! I'm not kidding. I'm sure the Renault engine gets you around the block, 2 times before it dies.)
36) Geo Metro. (A 1.0L inline 3 producing 52hp @ 5700rpm. Really bad, but one problem...The engine only revvs to 5000rpm. Edmunds.com rates a 1992 Metro at a value of $235.)
37) Honda Element. (A completely flat floor, suicide doors, removable seats all around. After looking at one, I would use those doors for suicide. Who wants a slow, ugly, weak box? And this was marketed for college kids!)
38) Ford Explorer with Window Stickers. (Did you know that window stickers will add 57 extra HP, and exhaust tips give you 15 ft/lbs of torque. Keep dreamin' dealz...)
I'm sorry for you if you own one of these, but for your next car, go with a German one!!!!
Top 50 World's Best (and my favorite) Cars:
1) 1995 Volkswagen Passat GLX VR6. (Yeah! MY CAR! 5-Speed, 2771cc (2.8L V6) and 0-60 in only 1.2 seconds. Whoever said you cannot drift with a front-wheel-drive car, do not speak again!!!)
2) 2003 BMW M3. (Ready to let those 333 horses run!. With a red-illuminated fighter jet cockpit, bolstered seats, German Bavarian engineering, and smooth styling.
3) 2003 BMW M5. (Same engine as the Z8 in a saloon, COOL! One of the fastest 4-doors on the planet.)
4) Porsche 911 GT2. (From Stuttgart. This 456hp monster can burnout in 2nd gear and pull 2500rpm in 6th gear from a standstill. WOW! His left turn signal will get quite a workout.)
5) Ruf CTR2 Sport (A 959 from Ruf, 80's German perfection.)
6) Ruf RTurbo Sport (It's a 911 GT2 from Ruf, with 520hp and a top speed of 212mph, thank God for padded headrests!)
7) Delfino Feroce. (We must celebrate 4WD drifting!)
8) Nissan Skyline R34 GTR. (The best from Japan, EVER! "Its four tires grip the pavement simultaneously and catapult it forward like an F-1 jet fighter!" "When you let the clutch out in 1st at 6000rpm, it feels more like the Earth is rotating under you than the car moving forward. There are approximately 2 rotations of the tires, then it's gone!!!")
9) Brabus K8. (SL55 AMG V8 Kompressor, 550hp, 206mph! Do you have 12-piston brake calipers? THIS DOES!!!)
10) Ferrari Enzo. (0-62 in 3.6 sec, 660hp. Melt 'em in 6th gear!)
11) Subaru Impreza WRX STi. (With 300hp, 300ft/lb, 2.5L flat four turbo, AWD, in a killer package for less than $32K, what more could you want?!)
12) Mazda RX-7. (Drifting? What's Drifting?!)
13) Chevrolet Corvette Z06. (405hp, my cousin whips me with it when I am any Rice car on GT2.)
14) Audi RS6. (450hp, Twin Turbo, and AWD! "It's quick, quicker, oh-my-God-we're-going-to-die quick!!" "If there is any car that has been made for going so uneffortlessly-fast, I have not driven it", R&T editor.)
15) Bugatti EB 16-4 Veyron. (1001hp, 7-speeds, 250mph. Umm. I don't think this is a car.)
16) Dodge Viper GTS. (Man, I look at the one on my street every day, and I wonder how much time I could drive it for before they catch me. [j/k].)
17) Lamborghini Countache. (What a classic. Not many things in life are more beautiful. Wait, this isn't reflection hour, BURN RUBBER!!!)
18) Vector W8. (Twin Turbo, 625hp, and a body that looks like a super-sonic rocket ship! Or a cheese grater.)
19) Vector WX3. (Twin Turbo V8, 600hp, 800ft/lb, 0-60 in 3.3 sec, 250mph est. and side scoops I can fit my head into!)
20) 1974 Dodge Charger. (My dad's first car. 426 Hemi V8, over 425hp, [some claim 500] and an engine bay that can fit a 10L V10. From the Dukes of Hazzard to the Fast and the Furious, the General Lee leaves its mark in American history somewhere in between Abe Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth.)
21) HUMWV. {High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle pronounced HUMVEE.}(6.5L TurboDiesel V8, 430ft/lb, forge 30inches of water, climb a 72degree slope, run 20miles on slashed tires, climb a 22inch vertical wall, sit 6 feet away from your passenger, and survive a direct hit from an RPG. You cannot even drive on back roads because the sign reads, "Trucks over 4 tons excluded", and you weigh 5 tons, unloaded [we are talking the US Army version]. That's not a car, it's a lightweight tank!)
22) McLaren F1. (This car still holds the world record for a street car @ 240mph. 627hp. Gold-plated engine bay covers.)
23) Bentley Arnage T. (Finally! A British car. 450hp and 645ft/lb torque get it on this list. 0-60 in only 5.8sec. This is the quickest saloon in the world at 170mph. Each car is hand stiched inside, and the engines are hand assembled.[Remind anyone of Mercedes Benz AMG???)
24) BMW Z8. (From James Bond to my garage, I hope. Only mine won't have rocket launchers.)
25) Cadillac Seville. (I logged over 300miles on a relative's and it's like Tony the Tiger says, GREAT! 60mph feels like 20, it accelerates like a racecar. Look at the back of the Cadillac LeMans car, it says 'my other car is an STS'.)
26) Chrysler 300M. (Dad's current car. You know a car has got power when you can spin the tires unintentionally. 253hp to be exact.)
27) GMC Envoy SLT. (Mom's car. 270hp is definetely detectable, and drifting is fun in this car. Look for any tire tracks on the grass. [j/k] or am I?)
28) Ferrari F40. (One of the top 5 best-looking cars in the world. The V8 screams when it flies past you.)
29) Ferrari F50. (The F40's younger, more powerful, quicker cousin. 0-60 in 3.6sec, 1/4mi in 12.1sec. It's one of the only superexotics to make money. Even the McLaren F1 lost green.)
30) Ford GT40. (In the 60's only 2 American cars could beat the Ferraris in the Daytona races. One was the GT40. The engine in this thing sounds like raw power in a Ford V8. The MK4 version produced about 500hp and got to 220mph.)
31) Saleen S351 Mustang. (This car looks awesome, and 495hp back up the good looks with @$$ whoopin performance numbers.)
32) Nissan 300ZX. (Why did Nissan cancel it? Sure the 350Z is cool, but this was the best. A turbo V6 made 300hp to the rear wheels. And the engine had the best sounding Jap engine.)
33) Saleen S7. (The first supercar from Mustang-tuner Steve Saleen. Made to rival cars like the F50, Diablo, and 911 GT3, it put up quite a fight. Actually, at 3.3seconds to 60, it's the quickest road car R&T ever tested! The "maniacal howl" of the 7.0L V8 is mezmorizing.)
34) Shelby Cobra 427 SC. (Modeled after the AC Cobra from Britain, but with a 427ci Ford V8, the Cobra was the second of only 2 American cars to beat the Ferraris at Daytona in the 60's. Shelby said, "There's no replacement for displacement" and he was right.)
35) Shelby GT500 KR. (Shelby's version of the Mustang. He made several in the 60's and 70's but this was the best. Just watch 'Gone in 60 Seconds' and look for 'Eleanor'.)
36) Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak Version. (Play Gran Turismo, win $2Mill with an Impreza Sti and buy an Escudo from the special cars selection of Suzuki. I've heard two theories: 1. It has a 2.5L Twin Turbo V6 with 985hp. 2. It has (2) 2.5L Twin Turbo V6's spliced together to form a V12 with 985hp. I know the hp is correct, but i find it hard to get 450hp from 1Litre, so I support the 2 engine theory. Anyway, this thing's rear spoiler is the size of a billboard! {Good advertising for Suzuki}.)
37) Volkswagen Passat W8. (Finally a VW 8-cylinder engine, and it's in my car! [not] 270hp to all 4 wheels make this car MOVE!)
38) Honda S2000. (A nice car from Honda, thank you. How do you get 240hp from only 2.0 Litres? With street-bike-rpm's.)
39) TVR Speed12. (Another Brit, wow. This car has a 7.7L 800hp V12 that sounds like a gigantic laser cannon.)
40) Ford GT90. (You try to put more triangles on a car and still have it go 0-60 in 3.1sec. With 720 hp and top speed of 235mph, this car belongs on this list.)
41) Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. ("Aston Martin call it the Vanquish, we call it the Vanish". Ok, Q, now the real car doesn't have rockets and camoflague armor, but it can hit 61mph in 1st gear and reach about 230mph! ICBM anyone?)
42) Jaguar XJ220. (542hp, and low enough to make the seats hit the ground when you pull in the driveway. Cool.)
43) Nissan Maxima SE 5spd. (Andrew's car, wow, it's quick. Takes a while to get used to the stick, but once you do, it flies. And you still have room for a mountain bike and a passenger in the car. And you can open the windows from 30 feet away.)
44) Porsche Carrera GT. (This doesn't even look like a Porsche, but it sure drives like one. 558hp V10.)
45) BMW 740iL. (My favorite ultra-luxury car, yes it beats the Arnage. 4.0L V8, and leather for all.)
46) BMW 850i. (372hp V12, why doesn't Bimmer bring this car back from the dead?)
47) Ford SVT Lightning. (450hp in a pickup. Wow, it'll take some getting used to burning out in that thing.)
48) Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. (320hp, and the control of 4 wheel drive, makes me fell safe when I ride in a Mitsubishi elevator, or watch a Mitsubishi TV.)
49) 1970's Volkswagen Beetle. (NOT THE NEW ONE! The old ones were the best cars ever constructed. No surprise they were from Germany. The Beetle is the best selling car in the world, and they still almost all work.)
50) Nissan 240Z. (Such a small car, but it was so fast. Too bad it decellerated in 6th gear, and the stick shift ripped my right thumb off.)
