ABP-CL9-TSX

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4063790/

My favorite generation Accord model is on that list!

Then there are those automobiles that are just pure crap! Can someone say Yugo?

larchmont

Once upon a time, I actually considered one of those cars -- the AMC Pacer. I wouldn't say I almost bought it, but I did consider it.
It drove exactly how it looks -- like an echo chamber that doesn't really go anywhere. Like a sea-shell -- put it to your ear and you can hear the ocean.

The Edsel wasn't really a lemon, it just didn't sell (and they say so). Interesting how they explain what happened: "Ford asked customers what they wanted to see on cars, but not what they were willing to pay for." (Sounds a lot like government spending and taxes.)

One of those cars, I never even heard of -- Sachsenring Trabant??
0-60, ~ 30 seconds -- I think you could beat it with a Huffy.
Looks cool though, in a nerd kind of way.

DEVO

Buick Skylark...

dabuda

the first gen dodge caravan, even though it created a whole new segment i remember my parents having to get a new transmission every year

KC 2004 TSX

In 1989, a tragic accident captured the front pages of state newspapers. Leslie Pluhar's 1987 Yugo, a small car, plunged from the [Mackinac] bridge more than 150 feet to the straits below. It was the first vehicle to fall off the five-mile span since it opened. Gale force winds blowing from the northwest helped lift her car off the roadway and over the side.

This is my lasting memory of this fine automobile. If you have never seen this bridge here is a link. What an awful way to go.
Mackinac Bridge History

bob shiftright

Early Honda Accord buyers were delighted to have a small car that looked and drove better than comparable American offerings. What they weren't so happy about were young Honda's Fiat-like quality problems; had they remained unaddressed, Honda may have gone the way of Fiat in this country. The first Accord's fenders would rust from the inside out. Pieces of interior trim would change color or fall off. An Accord owner might change his transmission five or six times, as he watched his primitive aluminum engine blow its gaskets.

Awwwww, I remember that Honda replaced the Accord fenders without any prompting. Meanwhile, Chrysler had a rust problem with the Dodge Aspen Plymouth Volare. If anything was done it sure wasn't voluntarily, they were fighting it tooth and nail. Methinks Forbes' Dan Lienert was reaching a bit so as not to dump entirely on 'merican cars. How many Trabants and Citroens have you ever even seen in the US?

How much advertising revenue does Forbes get from Ford, GM and DC? Lots of "road apples" on the list but where's the Chevette, the Citation, the Corvair, English cars including Jaguar, Rover and it's disguised child, the Sterling? Where are the other bazillion partly baked ideas like the early GM diesels, and the Cadillac V8-6-4? Mostly these specimens have been shredded and made into Daewoos anyway, hey there's another one! I'll read Forbes for information about cars when I start to read Road & Track for financial information!