Cars you regret buying?

[Ghoste]

Since we have cars we regret selling, anyone have a turd in the past they regret buying? (I did a quick search and didn't see this topic in the dim past but I apologize if it is)

For me it would be a 1980 Chevy Citation.
I don't know if I have any Mopars I regret buying.  Possibly the 69 Coronet 500 I had.  It was a money pit and I didn't drive it long before sending it to the crusher.  The Chev was the worst car I ever owned.  If somebody spit on the sidewalk close to where it was parked, I was walking to work for two days.  That is only the tip of the berg though.
The Coronet just needed a lot of things fixed and it was supposed to be a daily driver while the Super Bee was the fun car.  I couldn't be fixing two all the time.

[shawnmd]

2002 Olds Alero peice of crap.  Put wheel bearings in it almost every oil change......

[Wheels of Terror]

My white 84 Trans Am.  I have had three 84 T/As. I have an 86,82 currently. This particulatr one was also a money pit and a pain in my ass since day one. The fuel gauge broke the first trip home. I ran out of gas that same night coming home from work at 11:00pm. It over heated many times. I know the mid eighties small block Chebbies are known for that, but this one was a bitch. I went threw the whole cooloing system just to come down to a slightly clogged radiator. It did not overheat all of the time. Needless top say on the way to work one day, the head gaskets went.  Well, I did name this car "Lex".   The funny thing is my beloved Charger "looks"(to me he looks mean) like it might not run. He runs really strong.  The T/A looked good and would have been a great H.O. T/a to restore, but left me stranded numerous times.

[71charger_fan]

'82 Camaro, V6, 4-speed, it broke down on the way home from the dealership the day I bought it. How they could not figure out how to engineer a glove box into a car that large is beyond me. A salesman told me they were too small and there was no room, I told him it was odd they could find room for a glove box in Civics and Corollas. That car was just plain awful. The shifter snapped off the transmission one day. Couldn't reach it from underneath and had to pull the entire console out of the car to get to the bolts from above. They apparently assigned the engineering on that car to high school work study people.

[Chargerfanatic]

2003 Caravan. It has been nothing but a disappointment.

[Slowpoke]

84 Cougar with a 3.8 V6 ( worst motor ever) blown head gaskets , bad emmision parts
and finally broke the camshaft in two. 
Friends don't let friends drive 3.8's

[Khyron]

my Charger..... I KEED I KEED!


seriously though, I can't remember a car I honestly regret. Like I'm sure most of you have... I have owned over 50 cars. but I was very anal about what I bought to drive, or to sell. I would say the closest thing I have to regret was a 79 Porsche 924s. But not because it was a P.O.S. or anything, but because it was expensive to maintain, but thats about it.

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.

[Bones68charger]

1990 Eagle Talon Tsi. When nothing was broke it was a fun car, but that only lasted a few days. The best thing that ever could happen to me was when a drunk forced me off the road and I totaled it, then I would get a new car!

[Charger-Bodie]

the worst car i ever owned was a 92 dodge dynasty and this was in 1994.  this is how it came about:
my first wife was pregnant and i wanted her to be safe of the road ect. no breakdowns with a newborn yada..at the time we were drive a 86 lancer that was my granpas car until he died it had 188,000 miles on it so we decide we need something newer for piece of mind and that, so we get this dynasty and 2 weeks after my daughter celena was born i get a call from my wife at that time "the car stopped going" long story short the tranny went out and she walked 4 blocks with a newborn ,so not that big of a deal we take it to the suposed best tranny shop aroud 1800.00 later we get the pos back working great ,3 weeks later the tranny locks up on the railroad crossing ,again she walks from the thing with a baby !! the tranny shop warrentied the tranny and we got rid of the pile of dynasy and bought a 78 magnum gt which she drove trouble free untill our second daughter was born and then a rebuilt a wrecked caravan for her to drive geez i hate that dynasty

[Paul G]

I cant really say I regret buying any of them really. I have had dozens of cars and truck and bikes. The one that was my least liked was a 74 Vega. It had a manual trans which was the only fun thing about that car. Otherwise it sucked. Next I would say was my 89 Lincoln Continental. It was the best driving car I have ever had. It also was the most expensive to keep running.

[nh_mopar_fan]

1979 Mercury Capri RS Turbo.

Take the crappy 2.3L and just bolt on a turbo.

what a POS.

[Fitz73Chrgr]

1979 Mercury Capri RS Turbo.

Take the crappy 2.3L and just bolt on a turbo.

what a POS.

I had an 89 Mustang with the 2.3 and that car was bulletproof.  I loved it.

[The70RT]

1991 lincoln continental. Lost thousands on the piece of shit. Finally cut my losses....blacked out the check engine light and pulled the plug on the buzzer just to sell an 8,000 car for 1500! Just sold my 57 belair. bought it for 8K put in 4k and lost 2k when i sold it.......thanks mother in law..........then she wanted me to loan her half of the money back to fix her garage and that woul;d have put my charger resto on hold even longer. Needless to say NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boy I bet she hates my Charger!

[TruckDriver]

These are the only two.


I'm embarrassed to even admit the '89 Omni

[nh_mopar_fan]

1979 Mercury Capri RS Turbo.

Take the crappy 2.3L and just bolt on a turbo.

what a POS.

I had an 89 Mustang with the 2.3 and that car was bulletproof.  I loved it.

It's the turbo that made it a POS.

[4forty]

In '88 I was buying my first new car. Had to order it  ('88 Firebird FORMULA 350, red with Silver lower body stripe delete & T-Tops)  loved it but Pontiac said 3 months wait to come in, about a month into waiting happened by a dodge dealership and test drove a cheaper, New Blue Daytona Shelby Z. .............Somehow got talked into canceling my Firebird and taking same day delivery of new shelby Z. Car was alright for FWD but still regret canceling Pontiac til this day.    Wish I had some patience but couldn't wait , Salesman really gave me the razzle-dazzle!!

[41husk]

bought a 76 Ford F150 for $500, sunk about $1,000 in it and it was still worth about $350

[kab69440]

'87 Ford Bronco. That thing was the Anti- Christ.

[RT DAVE]

87 Mustang
98 Neon R/T
04 Neon R/T

Man, I shouldn't admit to owning these. 

[694spdRT]

1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Nothing wrong with the Jeep except my wife did not like it and I had to trade it off 6 months later. As expected I lost some money trading it so soon and ended up with a 2000 Cirrus instead.

[Bones68charger]

bought a 76 Ford F150 for $500, sunk about $1,000 in it and it was still worth about $350

That's funny because I traded a 76 Ford f150 to the guy who I bought my Charger from, it's not two tone brown by any chance?

[Old Moparz]

It's ironic that one of the cars I regret selling, is also one I regret buying. My 1st '69 Charger was a money pit that cost me a fortune. I sold my Caddy wagon in 1981 & bought the Charger for $1600. It was a nice looking car, but I should have looked at other Chargers first, & not just other cars. Comparing identical cars would have given me a better picture of what I would have gotten. I had looked at 6 or 7 cars in my price range, but this was the only Charger.

It had nice paint & new carpet.  (hiding bondo & rust)
It had a rebuilt 383 HP.  (but still abused & maybe not the best rebuild)
It had a rebuilt 727.  (but lines were crushed & trans died a week later)

Normal issues had to be taken care of over a period of time, like brakes, ball joints, & other mechanical things that wore out, but to have to spend money on a trans, motor work, electric gremlins, & other things, adds up. I was in college at the time & every penny from my part time job went into the car. The final straw was when the timing chain went & taken the rest of the motor with it. I had had the car less than 3 years at this point, but I decided the car needed too much body work to justify rebuilding the motor & bailed on it.

I hunted for another Charger with a better body to use mine as a parts car, but never found one. That's when I opened up to other B-Body cars & found my 1970 GTX that had a nice body but needed a motor rebuild. Of course that car never made it home in one piece & I became the proud, broke, owner of two pieces of shit that didn't run.   

[Brock Samson]

well it was a ok car not a great car just an o.k. '89 Chrysler New Yawker Mark Cross edition black with bordello burgandy leather interior...
like i said it wasn't a bad car we simply were not a good match, i bought it as a 14,000 mile cream puff owned by a church. I  talked the dealership down from $ 5,800  to 1,300 dollors  and promptly drove the crap out of that old persons car,.. I could see if you were a really conservative driver it might last you many, many  years, but it lasted me a year. cooling system, electrical the brakes, struts and tires all crapped out within days.

[73ChargerSE]

My two Cadillacs that i had, 81 and 83 Sedan DeVilles. Death traps 

[68chrgrwife]

87 Mustang
98 Neon R/T
04 Neon R/T

Man, I shouldn't admit to owning these. 

at least two are MOPARS!!!  I loved my 95 neon  it was the best car even though I had problems with it.  Every time it rained and I put the heat on the pass. floor would be a lake!!!!  LOL  But I did love that car...had it for 96-01??  The car I regret buying?  HMMM would have been hubby's firebird..that thing was a piece of you know what.  We had it for a month before we junked it...waste of money....Our blazer wasn't much better didn't have that one long before tranny blew and we junked it.  But when we got married it was our transportation to the reception and what not...we actually have a pic in our wedding album of us sitting in it!!!

[MichaelRW]

My wife's old car, a 1992 Chrysler LeBaron convertible. Worst build quality I have ever seen. Body flex with the top down was awful, hell, body flex with the top up was awful too. And the Mitsubishi V6 engine was real dog.

[SnoPro440]

2005 SRT-10.  3 transmissions in less than 13000 miles.  The truck would have been great, but it's been a pain in the ass since I bought it.
What really pisses me off is I don't drive it hard enough to warrant the failures.  Now I am just waiting to hear back from Dodge on how much they are going to buy it back for under the Lemon Law.

[bull]

2003 Caravan. It has been nothing but a disappointment.

I hear you. The two I hated the most:

1994 Chrysler Town and Country
1978 VW Dasher

[Charger_Fan]

I haven't regretted buying any of my vehicles, they all served the purpose I needed them for, at the time I needed them. Some were bought because I liked them, other were out of necessity.
The two that were the biggest PITA were;

• The freebie 84 Reliant wagon (I really grew to hate that car), that my in-laws gave us...for free. At least the price was right.
• The '89 Suburbus that I bought when I decided that me, my wife & 3 kids no longer fit in the Reliant very well any more.

I bought the Suburbus for my wife for Christmas in 1993 (I even put a big red bow on it ), as sort of a spur of the moment decision. THAT was the mistake...never buy a car on a whim.
I paid $11,500 for it used, with no warranty. (More like $16,000+ by the time I paid it off)
Day one (Christmas day), it overheated...the thermostat had stuck closed.
Within two weeks, the transmission went south...I ended up face to face with the owner of the car lot over that one.
Two years later, the fuel pump went...with a completely FULL 40 gallon tank!
One month after that, the transmission went again...yes, it was juuust barely out of warranty. At this point, I'm really disliking 700R4's.
Four years later, all forward gears in the transmission goes again. Ok, now I really hate that 700R4. By that time,  the value of the vehicle was about $4,000...that's WITH a working tranny. The way it sat there dead, I would have been lucky to get $2K out of it. Being stubborn, I wasn't gonna give it away, so it became my driveway queen.
After about a year, I finally but a completely different rebuilt 700R4 in there that the shop claimed as "bullitproof".
Two years later & of course, juuuust out of warranty, the tranny let's loose again. "Bulletproof, huh? Why didn't I sell it last year??"
Now I'd be lucky to get $800 out of it...but wait! I paid $11,500 for it (more like $16K)! Forget it, I ain't sellin' it! I'll do a 5-speed swap to it when I'm no longer pissed at it.

This was about 4 years ago, before the nice shiny paint started flaking off the sides...




Yes I am a glutton, but dammit, that's the most I've ever paid for any vehicle for it & I'm gonna get my money's worth!! hehe

[Argos_Chargers]

700R4's are EVIL.  When the cabs we drove were Caprices, we were lucky to get 100,000 out of a 700R4.  The Ford AOD's lasted forever, but you just dreaded the 700R4.  It got to the point where we wouldn't purchase any that the police departments hadn't put a fresh tranny in just before they sold it....What junk!

The car I regret buying was a '67 Camaro.  It had a dead 6 in it when I obught it.  I had a high performance 307 built for it.  Now the car could get out of it's own way, but that was all it could do.  I couldn't drive it in the rain because I had no traction.  It cornered like a barge. It had a terribly rough ride to it.  And, of course, it turned out to be full of rust and bondo covered by fresh red paint.  The only thing the car was good for was straight line acceleration on dry pavement.  Once I learned how to get it to hook up, it was really inpressive.  Unfortuneately, I couldn't afford to keep a car that was only good for straight line acceleration.  The car had horrible weight distribution and an even more poorly designed suspension,  I was lucky to unload it for half of what I had in it!

[70charginglizard]

My 1994 Ford Escort station wagon.
Gutless piece of turd.
Bought it brand new as a desprite attempt to make someone who was with me at the time happy
Didn't make any difference. The marrage failed anyway. Thats ok though. I still had the last laugh.
I got in a wreck with it and totalled it right after we split up.

[Ghoste]

No complaints so far about Chrysler F-bodies.  I have always thought the quality "problems" with those cars were generated more by an import loving press than real experience.  Not to say that some weren't bad but I don't recall them as being peculiarly bad.

[Charger1973]

My 96 Trans Am

It was an awesome car, had tons of power and damn did it look good.  But the thing was imposible to work on, and parts were outrageous.  There was always something wrong with it too.  The last year I owned it I didnt even drive it because there was so much stuff wrong with it.  I had it in and out of the dealership 3 different times and they never did fix the problem.  I ended up selling it for 1/2 what I paid, that sucked.  If it would have ran as good as it looked I would still own it today. 

[TruckDriver]

No complaints so far about Chrysler F-bodies.  I have always thought the quality "problems" with those cars were generated more by an import loving press than real experience.  Not to say that some weren't bad but I don't recall them as being peculiarly bad.

My Dodge F bodies were some of the best cars I ever owned. I'm still kicking myself for selling my '78 Aspen R/T.

[daves68]

Regret buying : 1979 Dodge Magnum. Constant repairs, tranny crapped out 2x, headlight doors wouldn't open or close, and the first generation lean burn 318 couldn't get out of it's own way.
Regret selling: 1971 Road Runner in 1974 ( remember the first gas crisis) to a dumb kid with $$$ who wrapped it around a pole 1 wk later, totaled the car.

[Chatt69chgr]

94 Ford Tarus.  Started smelling antifreeze at 25K.  By 56K heads had been off 3 times.  Two weeks after last time, antifreeze got into oil system and totaled engine.  Also, radiator at 35K, 4 speedometers, 1 rear window motor, front motor mount, and air cond system (hoses failed), transmission range sensor replaced twice (wouldn't shift right in hot weather).  I could tell you more about that horror story but won't bore you with the details.  That did it for me with Ford----and I owned a Ford F100 for 29 years.  Doesn't surprise me that they are having the problems they are having now.  The only bright spot they seem to have is the Mustang.

My wife drives a Toyota now and I drive a 2005 RAM Hemi Quad.  Best vehicles we have ever owned.  Just waiting on the new Challenger now------if they don't price us out of the market.

[nh_mopar_fan]

87 Mustang
98 Neon R/T
04 Neon R/T

Man, I shouldn't admit to owning these. 

The 98 was such a POS that you went out and bought an 04?

[Manfred318]

'73 Duster is the one I shouldnt have bought.  I went through 3 altenators the first month and a half I had it. Someone had chopped up the wiring harness. The /6 had as much power as a fart in a tornado. It leaked antifreeze (1 1/2 galons in the first month), oil and on occasion tranny fluid. It was supposed to have had a new exaust pipe put on it before I bought it, but I later found out it was missing a 2 foot section and was repaired with flex pipe and duct tape. It also had quite a bit of bondo in it, and the sun roof leaked like hell. One good thing was my buddy gave me a set of hubcaps for it

[nh_mopar_fan]

No complaints so far about Chrysler F-bodies.  I have always thought the quality "problems" with those cars were generated more by an import loving press than real experience.  Not to say that some weren't bad but I don't recall them as being peculiarly bad.

My Dodge F bodies were some of the best cars I ever owned. I'm still kicking myself for selling my '78 Aspen R/T.

I had a 77 RoadRunner and a 78 Super Coupe. Loved those cars.

[TruckDriver]

had as much power as a fart in a tornado.

I gotta remember that one!

[Silver68RT]

Car I regret most was my '86 Porsche 944.  It was fun for the first three years, but then stuff started going wrong, and it turned into a nightmare.  I paid $6K for it, put another $6K into it for brakes, timing belt, water pump, starter, lower control arm, etc. and could only get $3K for it when I sold it.  By then I was afraid to drive it for fear that something else would break, and cost me more money.

I had an '84 Horizon that I bought for $50 - what a pathetic excuse for a car.  Could not get out of it's own way, leaked like a sieve, stuff was falling off it on a daily basis.  I traded it in on the 944, got $200 for it.

I also kind of regret buying my '72 Charger SE - it was a fun car, but the guy I bought it off of was also selling a purple '69 Charger with a 383, and an orange '70 Challenger RT/SE.  My '72 was $1500, the '69 was $3500, and the Challenger was $5500.  I should have saved up a while longer, and bought the '69, because by the end of the summer, I'd spent another $2K fixing the '72.  When I picked up the '72, it was in this guy Aime's barn in LaBroquerie, MB.  That barn was full of Mopars, and there was a line of 440's along one wall.  The ones I remember are a '73 Road Runner, and a '70 Hemi Cuda.  I wonder how much they would have wanted for the Cuda back in '89.  I ended up giving the '72 Charger to a buddy for parts several years ago.  There wasn't a single good body panel on it, and it was only a 318.  He's parting it out now.  For what I had in it, I could have bought that '70 Challenger.

[Arigmaster]

I had picked up a 73 Corvette that was the poster child for the lemon laws... I couldn't keep it on the road for more than 2 weeks at a time before something else went wrong with it. I was almost tempted to paint it yellow and heat the booth up so the paint would orange peel. Then paint the Sunkist logo across the hood.

I ended up giving it away....

[CB]

out of all the cars I had in the past I pick the 66 Chevelle 4-door slant6, painted like a fire truck. The bottom side was gone bud was hided behind carpet and bondo. Lost a pain in the butt selling this POS

[RT DAVE]

87 Mustang
98 Neon R/T
04 Neon R/T

Man, I shouldn't admit to owning these. 

The 98 was such a POS that you went out and bought an 04?

Yes, I did, but they're bad for completely different reasons.  The 98 was broke all the time but it was fun to drive.  The '04 just got boring real quick.  It's been rather dependable, actually....

[LargerCharger383]

a 1987 Bronco...looked cool, but was in and out of the shop every other week and got 8 mpg with a 32g tank. what a dog. only had it a few months.

[resq302]

my 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 hemi quad cab 4x4.  Biggest POS that I ever bought brand new!   DC's quality control has gone way down since my last truck (97 Ram 1500 ext cab 4x4).  The 97 had 100,000 miles when I sold it with only a plenum pan gasket on the intake going bad.  The 05 Ram I had didn't even hit 6000 miles and had over 44+ problems before Chrysler bought it back.  Basically every part in my steering system was replaced.  Hell, I even had 4 power steering pumps replaced since 3 of them grenaded.  Sadly, I did absolutely no mods to it, not even a bigger tire size.  Stuff from a broken seat spring in the pass side seat back, broken right front shock, bad coil pack, spark plug wires, the list goes on.  I currently own a 05 Ford F150 FX4 package truck and love it.  So much better than what the ram was.

[jordyjim]

a fiat 126 its about the size of a go cart, and the day i drove it i got done by the bizzy,s for having no road tax,check them out[a real stylish beast}..jim

[RoscoePColtrain]

A 93' Pontiac Sunbird... Head gasket leak after head gasket leak.  I've seen better things floating in a toilet that would've powered the car better.

[Fitz73Chrgr]

My 96 Trans Am

It was an awesome car, had tons of power and damn did it look good.  But the thing was imposible to work on, and parts were outrageous.  There was always something wrong with it too.  The last year I owned it I didnt even drive it because there was so much stuff wrong with it.  I had it in and out of the dealership 3 different times and they never did fix the problem.  I ended up selling it for 1/2 what I paid, that sucked.  If it would have ran as good as it looked I would still own it today. 

My 94 Formula is an awesome car with lots of power as well. I just can't afford gas for it anymore, and it does like to break from time to time.  But do I regret buying it?  No.  I enjoy working on cars, and it always gave me something to do.  Just time to move on, hopefully it will sell soon. 

Charger1973, it looks like we have a very similiar taste in cars, judging by our plans for our 73's and the Firebirds we've owned. 

[Musicman]

Every GM product I've ever owned, without exception... be it Chevy, Buick, Oldsmobile... every one was an unreliable P.O.S. that required constant service. Some folks have good luck with GM products, I'm just not one of them. The only Mopar product that has ever disappointed me is my 1997 Ram 2500 with the 360 Magnum engine and the 46RE Transmission. Mechanically a very sound and reliable vehicle, but what an aggravating hunk of crap that tranny is. Thank God for Lucas Stop Slip; it's the only thing standing between that 46RE and my 12 gauge. The 10 mpg I get from the 360 doesn't make me happy either.
I've owned about a gazillion Mopars over the years, from 1967 on, and they've all been wonderfully reliable, easy to work on when necessary, and inexpensive to maintain. The oldest one I have in the yard at the moment (aside from my Charger) is my 1985 D-100 with a Slant-6 that has been running like a top since day one.

[70charger_boy]

1981 Mercury Bobcat..Google it and you'll see why

[70charginglizard]

Ford Escort and ford ranger.

Never again.

[hemi-hampton]

Biggest POS I had was a 1966 Chevelle with 350 4bbl. The gas tank fell out & was draging down the raod behind me as I drove, Thought of driving a rolling time bomb ready to explode at any second crossed my mind. This was just after I bought it & before I even made it home with it. Looked good in the dark with it's nice new bright red paint but Next day in the daylight the biggest POS.  LEON.

[Wheels of Terror]

1991 lincoln continental. Lost thousands on the piece of shit. Finally cut my losses....blacked out the check engine light and pulled the plug on the buzzer just to sell an 8,000 car for 1500! Just sold my 57 belair. bought it for 8K put in 4k and lost 2k when i sold it.......thanks mother in law..........then she wanted me to loan her half of the money back to fix her garage and that woul;d have put my charger resto on hold even longer. Needless to say NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boy I bet she hates my Charger!

Hey!! My mother-in-law hates my Charger too!! Yet she claims that she is a gearhead.

[Lowprofile]

I haven't regretted buying any of my vehicles, they all served the purpose I needed them for, at the time I needed them. Some were bought because I liked them, other were out of necessity.
The two that were the biggest PITA were;

• The freebie 84 Reliant wagon (I really grew to hate that car), that my in-laws gave us...for free. At least the price was right.
• The '89 Suburbus that I bought when I decided that me, my wife & 3 kids no longer fit in the Reliant very well any more.

I bought the Suburbus for my wife for Christmas in 1993 (I even put a big red bow on it ), as sort of a spur of the moment decision. THAT was the mistake...never buy a car on a whim.
I paid $11,500 for it used, with no warranty. (More like $16,000+ by the time I paid it off)
Day one (Christmas day), it overheated...the thermostat had stuck closed.
Within two weeks, the transmission went south...I ended up face to face with the owner of the car lot over that one.
Two years later, the fuel pump went...with a completely FULL 40 gallon tank!
One month after that, the transmission went again...yes, it was juuust barely out of warranty. At this point, I'm really disliking 700R4's.
Four years later, all forward gears in the transmission goes again. Ok, now I really hate that 700R4. By that time,  the value of the vehicle was about $4,000...that's WITH a working tranny. The way it sat there dead, I would have been lucky to get $2K out of it. Being stubborn, I wasn't gonna give it away, so it became my driveway queen.
After about a year, I finally but a completely different rebuilt 700R4 in there that the shop claimed as "bullitproof".
Two years later & of course, juuuust out of warranty, the tranny let's loose again. "Bulletproof, huh? Why didn't I sell it last year??"
Now I'd be lucky to get $800 out of it...but wait! I paid $11,500 for it (more like $16K)! Forget it, I ain't sellin' it! I'll do a 5-speed swap to it when I'm no longer pissed at it.

This was about 4 years ago, before the nice shiny paint started flaking off the sides...




Yes I am a glutton, but dammit, that's the most I've ever paid for any vehicle for it & I'm gonna get my money's worth!! hehe

Had the same problems with my 94' burb.  Turbo 400 is the only way to go.......that 700r4 is a waste of aluminum. 

[HAZZARDJOHN]

Ford Escort and ford ranger.

Never again.

I've owned several rangers and I love them. I even Drive a 2000 explorer now. I have had nothing but luck with them best all around truck IMO

Worst car I ever owned:

2000 Ford escort ZX2 (Bought it because I thought an economical car would be a good idea) sold it a year later and bought another Ranger.

Now I am only throwing this in because I am pissed at it right now but my '95 Impala SS

This car is built and is in perfect shape, but I have been fixing the stupid from the previous owner for weeks now and it sits in my garage with a Buzzing radio and a Bad valve tick!  When I fix this stuff I will love it again.

[hutch]

I bought a 92 Camaro the day they rolled off the line and had the rear end replaced twice in the first 4000 miles.  It was a hunk of crap. The interior started falling apart and breaking after the first year.  I wrapped it around a tree in 93 and never looked back.

[TeeWJay426]

My biggest automotive purchase regrets were the ones I DIDN'T buy.... and given the current market, should have! That list still makes me nauseous.... a close second is the ones I sold and shouldn't have.....