This must have been a fantastic car.

[Whitehouse]

If Jackie says so, it must be the truth.

[blackmath]

why do I have the sudden urge to buy an 84 Ford Tempo and watch a Formula 1 race all of the sudden?

[9mile&seneca]

I rented a Ford Aspire once. It aspired to be a car.

[n7hn]

I love the way it looks like its going off track at any moment. Those were cr*p cars

[JBMcB]

And yet, it was one of the best selling cars of all time. Go figure.

[Whitehouse]

By contrast:
As if this car ever needed a commercial!!

[n7hn]

My first car was a green, 67 coupe w a 302....loved that car. My aunt bought a 65 new and wrecked/totaled it pulling out of the dealership

[LDoolan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNAele2PHZc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf5PHJGQ4uI

[EastsideAl]

Love that big wheel hop in the first turn. And the way he has to lift and quickly readjust his turn in the rain, so he doesn't slide right off.

[downtown_racine]

Yes ! lots of good cars from the big 3 during the "cocaine eighties".
You think factory workers UAW or otherwise are doing drinking and drugs on the job now ? Pales in comparison to the good ole days.

1984 Tempo, Cavalier and K car, the reason Toyota is #1 today.

[East Detroit]

Good one! Everyone knows Toyota quality is now shit and Ford is #1.

Maybe that is why someone had to post this the same day Ford announced the new Focus gets 40mpg.

[JBMcB]

1984 Tempo, Cavalier and K car, the reason Toyota is #1 today.

Toyota has never sold more Camrys, in any model year, than Ford's 1984 run of Tempo/Topaz.

The problem with the big three has never been selling cars. They sell tons of cars. The problem is making a profit. Profits shrank but expenditures did not.

[Whitehouse]

Here's a surprising list. The worst cars ever.
Fun to read.

[Whitehouse]

Part two, this must have been a great car!!

Second part.

[[In all fairness, this car just got a lot of bad press, it wasn't as bad as it was pictured. Here's a view which concludes dat Ralph Nader may have been indirectly responsible for the decline of Detroit.)

[fryar]

I enjoyed much about that video, but I don't buy it.

[ggores]

Kinda embarrased about this one, but this was my first car, bought used, and the damn tranny dropped, oy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLTIQg_bjFI

[Whitehouse]

Kinda embarrased about this one, but this was my first car, bought used, and the damn tranny dropped, oy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLTIQg_bjFI

You know you've b een duped into buying that car after watching that commercial. If there is one thing you cannot do in Venice it's.... drive a car!

This could evolve into a great topic!
Here's a nice obscure commerical for a Ford pick-up.

Oldsmobile Starfire.
V6 power for economy and performance!


Ricardo Montalbán [[Fantasy Island) pitching a 1975 Chrysler Cordoba.
He calls this a small car!!!

Everybody needs a Yugo sometimes.

Who comes up with these lines!!??
Buick Riviera 1975.
"One of the most distinctive cars in thw world!" Yeah... right.

[JBMcB]

Here's a surprising list. The worst cars ever.
Fun to read.

Ugh, it's embarrassing to read what people write about cars when they don't know much about them.

The LM002 is on the list because Saddam's kid had one? *facepalm*

[Fury13]

Ricardo Montalbán [[Fantasy Island) pitching a 1975 Chrysler Cordoba.
He calls this a small car!!!

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The '75 Cordoba WAS a small car, compared to the full-size land yacht New Yorkers and Imperials made by Chrysler that year.

[Fury13]

Time's article was interesting in that it mentioned the 1909 Ford Model T, which began the 19-year-run of one of the most successful cars ever, and the 1958 Edsel [[not "Ford Edsel" -- Edsel was a marque in its own right, like Mercury or Lincoln), which was no better nor no worse that any other mid-priced car in the recession year of '58.

I have to agree with the Trabant, though. One of the worst, if not THE worst.

[beachboy]

One of Detroit's better cars, Olds Toronado 1966-1970, esp with 425cc power option [[400hp stock):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQbX4bjefKw

By 1972, an overweight luxury sedan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_39SEQEkNc

Later ... small, underpowered, depressing.