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06-19-2019, 08:54 AM | #1 |
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Worst Cars of All Time
Not completely Model A related, but I found this article when searching for pictures of engine compartments. Conclusion: This guy hates cars.
https://time.com/4723114/50-worst-cars-of-all-time/ (The T gets ripped)
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06-19-2019, 09:14 AM | #3 |
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This guy obviously has little or no car experience.of I would bet that he has never rode in, driven or even seen most of these cars.
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06-19-2019, 09:20 AM | #4 |
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And he is a "pullitzer prize-winning automotive critic"... it is this kind of stuff that turns people away from the hobby.
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06-19-2019, 10:53 AM | #5 |
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Although does make some valid points. Some village someplace is short a person.......
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i read the list the aztec belongs on there. |
06-19-2019, 11:48 AM | #7 |
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Look a Holden crash test----- it takes innovative engineering to be able to have the trunk lid crumple in a frontal barrier crash
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I think we are being a bit critical. I haven't laughed so much in sometime. His humor was refreshing. "Rolling roadblock", Not as fast as the Rose bowl parade" etc.
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The author is one of those Green New Deal believers. Look what his take on the Model T is: " [it] conferred to Americans the notion of automobility as something akin to natural law, a right endowed by our Creator. A century later, the consequences of putting every living soul on gas-powered wheels are piling up, from the air over our cities to the sand under our soldiers’ boots." Nothing about its significance as an automobile, just how it put us on the path to environmental ruin. This moron has as much right to write about automobiles as I have to write about colonoscopies. He hates cars, I hate colonoscopies, he knows nothing about cars, I know nothing about colonoscopies, he thinks cars are a necessary evil and I think colonoscopies are a necessary evil.
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I’m not a T guy but have had buddies that were/are
Their skinny on the 09 T was that the engine was totally unreliable Most were replaced in the first 5 years making the 09 engine a real rarity to find today By 14 Ford had a much better engine....I hear Last edited by Oldbluoval; 06-19-2019 at 12:39 PM. |
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It was a nice driving car when it was not in the shop. No issues with motor or tranny, brakes - just everything else. POS |
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Did people in 1958 really think the Edsel's grille resembled lady parts? Never in a million years would I have thought of that...
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I thought the same thing, I have never heard or even thought of that. Of course me and the author were not even born yet, but really!
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Dan Neil jumped from the LA Times, where he won a Pulitzer, to the WSJ. Like most automotive writers when they write something for the non automotive media, he took money from TIME with his tongue deeply embedded in his cheek. His weekly reviews in the WSJ are must reading every Saturday as are the interviews with owners of unusual cars on Wednesday.
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"Back when" it was known as a "Ford sucking a lemon"!!
They were not that bad of car just too much change and too much bling at the time. Maybe like "New Coke"????? |
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