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Old 01-26-2009, 03:36 PM
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The 10 most embarassing auto award winners
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...istory_feature

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Some stinkers on this list.
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Old 01-26-2009, 03:41 PM
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2002 Ford Thunderbird: Motor Trend Car of the Year

I was not sure how the hell that happened in 02.
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Yep, definitely some doozies on that list...makes you wonder how much money the car companies paid the mags.
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Old 01-26-2009, 03:52 PM
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Whoa! Domestic crap overload!
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i liked the Chevy Citation
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Old 01-26-2009, 04:32 PM
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damn all of them were domestics...
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The Merkur and Contour were decent cars.

I liked the concept of the Vega-- especially the Cosworth version, and its 350 c.i. Monza cousin-- it's just that body integrity and engineering were lacking.
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damn all of them were domestics...
Some of the late '60s Japanese cars were awful, as were the Italian cars (but I think that was expected ), but the listed cars were magazine award winners.
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Old 01-26-2009, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Will Y.
The Merkur and Contour were decent cars.

I liked the concept of the Vega-- especially the Cosworth version, and its 350 c.i. Monza cousin-- it's just that body integrity and engineering were lacking.
hey i drove a Contour for about a year. (4 cylinder form) it made my old Accord feel like a Mercedes.
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i liked the Chevy Citation
I'd also pick it out of that list.
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Old 01-26-2009, 05:46 PM
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80's-early 2000's domestics FTL, what piles of crap
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Old 01-26-2009, 08:51 PM
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i liked the Chevy Citation
Me too. Does anyone around my age remember the X-11? Quite the factory hotrod in it's day.


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Originally Posted by teranfon
Me too. Does anyone around my age remember the X-11? Quite the factory hotrod in it's day.


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That's right, sonny...
Along with the Pontiac 6000 SE "Eurosedan"...
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Me too. Does anyone around my age remember the X-11? Quite the factory hotrod in it's day.
I loved all those little shitboxes...
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i liked the catera, the styling was better than most in it's class, i owned a 2000 catera befire the cl and really liked it
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My dad had a Renault Alliance that was a piece of crap (after about 100k miles and multiple trips from MA to FL)...

BUT... the Vega, Mustang II and some of the other cars are ok...
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Originally Posted by Will Y.
The Merkur and Contour were decent cars.

I liked the concept of the Vega-- especially the Cosworth version, and its 350 c.i. Monza cousin-- it's just that body integrity and engineering were lacking.
You would've hated my sister's, that thing always had something wrong with it. It ran great but it always seemed to have an issue to fix. I'd fix it, then something else, again I fix that, a couple weeks later, AGAIN!!! I wanted to push that thing off a cliff! I do admit though, that for a 4 cylinder it had some pretty nice power/acceleration. Then you would get to about 80 and the shaking would begin.... I swear I thought it was going to fall apart piece by piece.
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The Mustang II is a crime just because its so ugly and it was the first Mustang with a 4-cylinder.
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i liked the Chevy Citation
My dad owned one. Bought it when it first came out. Hard to believe people waited up to 9 month for one.
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Old 01-27-2009, 07:57 AM
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i liked the catera, the styling was better than most in it's class, i owned a 2000 catera befire the cl and really liked it
The Catera was one of the first Opels (the Omega) to come over to the US relatively unchanged. Not a bad effort, but Cadillac was the wrong GM arm to use. It should have been a Chevy or Pontiac.
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2002 Ford Thunderbird: Motor Trend Car of the Year

I was not sure how the hell that happened in 02.
one ugly car...
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