Avoidable Contact #36: The culture wars gave Toyota a license to kill.

Are Toyotas really accelerating without warning? It’s hard to say, since it’s been years since I saw any Toyota besides a Tundra even keep up with the normal flow of traffic. The Camry is the official car of the left-lane hog, the chosen transport of that woman ahead of you who ABS-locks her brakes for a yellow light and then won’t enter the intersection for a left on green. By and large, Toyotas are characterless cars purchased by fearful, fretting nebbishes. Twenty years ago, Toyota ads screamed “OH WHAT A FEELING!” but today’s Toyota ads are naked appeals to terror of the unknown. Do you clutch your organic-fiber blanket in bed at night and roll around shaking, dreading the day when your car requires service or — gasp! — maintenance? Toyota has the car for you. Corolla! It’s for cowards! Oh what a feeling!

Some of the worst cars ever made?

May 07, 2006 by AcetheRace | Posted in Other - Cars & Transportation

What are some of the worst cars ever made in the automotive history? My choices are the Yugos, VW Dasher's, the 80's X body cars (Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Buick Skylark and Oldsmobile Omega), Ford Pinto, Chevrolet Vega and AMC Pacer.

I've forgotten all about the Cadillac 6-8-4 V8 engine, those were terrible engines, remember the crappy GM Diesel engines of the late 70's/early 80's, those were awful engines.

Mercury Capri, Ford Mustang II, almost any American car made