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50 Worst Cars of All Time
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50 Worst Cars of All Time -
09-07-2007
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Regardless of how busy you are, take time for this photo essay: http://tinyurl.com/2ayd3h The pictures are way cool - the narratives are priceless. Here's a sample: 1956 Renault Dauphine: "The most ineffective bit of French engineering since the Maginot Line, the Renault Dauphine was originally to be named the Corvette, tres ironie. It was, in fact, a rickety, paper-thin scandal of a car that, if you stood beside it, you could actually hear rusting. Its most salient feature was its slowness, a rate of acceleration you could measure with a calendar. It took the drivers at Road and Track 32 seconds to reach 60 mph, which would put the Dauphine at a severe disadvantage in any drag race involving farm equipment. The fact that the ultra-cheap, super-sketchy Dauphine sold over 2 million copies around the world is an index of how desperately people wanted cars. Any cars. " Whoever wrote these descriptions deserves an award. I was falling off my chair, laughing. N. |
Oops, I see tha author has already won a Pulitzer. LOL. I guess I
know a winner when I read one.
N.
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Regardless of how busy you are, take time for this photo essay: http://tinyurl.com/2ayd3h The pictures are way cool - the narratives are priceless. Here's a sample: 1956 Renault Dauphine: "The most ineffective bit of French engineering since the Maginot Line, the Renault Dauphine was originally to be named the Corvette, tres ironie. It was, in fact, a rickety, paper-thin scandal of a car that, if you stood beside it, you could actually hear rusting. Its most salient feature was its slowness, a rate of acceleration you could measure with a calendar. It took the drivers at Road and Track 32 seconds to reach 60 mph, which would put the Dauphine at a severe disadvantage in any drag race involving farm equipment. The fact that the ultra-cheap, super-sketchy Dauphine sold over 2 million copies around the world is an index of how desperately people wanted cars. Any cars. " Whoever wrote these descriptions deserves an award. I was falling off my chair, laughing. N. |
Berman from ESPN "BOOYAA" LOL!
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Regardless of how busy you are, take time for this photo essay: http://tinyurl.com/2ayd3h The pictures are way cool - the narratives are priceless. Here's a sample: 1956 Renault Dauphine: "The most ineffective bit of French engineering since the Maginot Line, the Renault Dauphine was originally to be named the Corvette, tres ironie. It was, in fact, a rickety, paper-thin scandal of a car that, if you stood beside it, you could actually hear rusting. Its most salient feature was its slowness, a rate of acceleration you could measure with a calendar. It took the drivers at Road and Track 32 seconds to reach 60 mph, which would put the Dauphine at a severe disadvantage in any drag race involving farm equipment. The fact that the ultra-cheap, super-sketchy Dauphine sold over 2 million copies around the world is an index of how desperately people wanted cars. Any cars. " Whoever wrote these descriptions deserves an award. I was falling off my chair, laughing. N. |
opinions. Some of them were hilarious. All were at least amusing.
One factual error: the MGA replaced the MG-TF, not the MG-TD.
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Regardless of how busy you are, take time for this photo essay: http://tinyurl.com/2ayd3h The pictures are way cool - the narratives are priceless. Here's a sample: 1956 Renault Dauphine: "The most ineffective bit of French engineering since the Maginot Line, the Renault Dauphine was originally to be named the Corvette, tres ironie. It was, in fact, a rickety, paper-thin scandal of a car that, if you stood beside it, you could actually hear rusting. Its most salient feature was its slowness, a rate of acceleration you could measure with a calendar. It took the drivers at Road and Track 32 seconds to reach 60 mph, which would put the Dauphine at a severe disadvantage in any drag race involving farm equipment. The fact that the ultra-cheap, super-sketchy Dauphine sold over 2 million copies around the world is an index of how desperately people wanted cars. Any cars. " Whoever wrote these descriptions deserves an award. I was falling off my chair, laughing. N. I won't comment on the interpretation of the Edsel Grille (hmmmm!), but I do |
time of introduction of the Edsel, as "looking like an Oldsmobile sucking a
lemon!"
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You're right, Nancy. The writer was definitely not afraid to express his opinions. Some of them were hilarious. All were at least amusing. One factual error: the MGA replaced the MG-TF, not the MG-TD. |
never had a flat-4 engine; they were all flat-6). And his rationale
for including the Model T and the Chrysler Airflow was rather weak.
But all in all it was a fun series to read.
John
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Regardless of how busy you are, take time for this photo essay: http://tinyurl.com/2ayd3h The pictures are way cool - the narratives are priceless. Here's a sample: 1956 Renault Dauphine: "The most ineffective bit of French engineering since the Maginot Line, the Renault Dauphine was originally to be named the Corvette, tres ironie. It was, in fact, a rickety, paper-thin scandal of a car that, if you stood beside it, you could actually hear rusting. Its most salient feature was its slowness, a rate of acceleration you could measure with a calendar. It took the drivers at Road and Track 32 seconds to reach 60 mph, which would put the Dauphine at a severe disadvantage in any drag race involving farm equipment. The fact that the ultra-cheap, super-sketchy Dauphine sold over 2 million copies around the world is an index of how desperately people wanted cars. Any cars. " Whoever wrote these descriptions deserves an award. I was falling off my chair, laughing. N. |
Three of them were pretty good cars as I remember.
Oh well....
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No argument here. My first car was a 1972 PINTO. He must have never heard of a 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne. What a piece of crap car that was. Mark |
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