The worst car I have ever owned was a 1974 Chevy Vega I bought new when I was a student. This car had been named by Motor Trend as "1973 car of the year", it should have been 1973 crap of the year. In naming it car of the year Motor Trend ruined its own reputation in my view. I guess General Motors must have bribed them or something.
But back to the car itself. The driving and brakes were bad but not terribly bad, but the engine was something else, it burned oil as if it was a two cycle engine. It almost burned more oil than gasoline, and started doing this in one year, right after the warranty expired. Towards the end it used about 1½ quarts of oil per tankful. This was General Motors' experiment with aluminum block engines without iron cylinder sleeves.
The body rusted all over. Water would leak inside the car coming all around the windshield, the rear lights fell off because the supports rusted out completely.
Within four years I had driven this car to a junkyard and just left it there for $0.00.
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