What was the worst car you ever had?

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29. My parents had two different Buicks in the early eighties

Man those things were awful. The station wagon in particular was a menace. It had an early form of electronic control that tried to predict what you wanted and on multiple occasions it tried to accelerate while I was trying to brake. It was also ass-heavy and had terrible tracking so it would spin at the drop of a hat. I spun that thing twice within a few thousand miles of driving and have never had another in what has to be approaching a million miles.

But personally, the worst car I have ever owned was a mid-90s Saturn. It was a cheap underpowered plastic car. Buying cars was so unpleasant at the time, people were willing to do anything to avoid it. They managed to catch a certain zeitgeist in the marketing of those things. Just the idea of not negotiating the price made people overpay for a bad car.