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My '87 Ford Tempo that I got in April of 2000 was the worst car I've ever owned. Before it, I had a '90 Ford Taurus that my parents bought in '94, drove for 4 years, then gave to me when they got a then-brand-new '98 Hyundai Tiburon. The Taurus was trouble-free for 6 total years before the motor suddenly crapped out. While it had been running fine before, it was going to need a lot of expensive repairs and overhauls very soon to keep it going, like a new transmission, plus new CV joints, so I decided it wouldn't be worth fixing, so I sold it and got the Tempo.
Big mistake.
The Tempo was in the shop disabled 11 times over a 10-month period before I got rid of the thing. Name a part at random, and I'll be able to respond with, "Yeah, that broke." I was a dirt poor college student in my last couple of semesters and oh-so-close to finishing up school, and I really couldn't afford a decent car. I was thinking anything else I get will be an old junker as well, and if I can just keep this thing running until I get out and I can afford something much newer...when something else would break. So of course, with what I spent on the car itself and the subsequent repairs, I'd have been able to get something more reliable. Heck, I might have kept the Taurus running for that kind of money. I made a few bets and lost big. Live and learn, as they say.
That was the worst car I owned, but the worst car I ever drove, as I mentioned in another thread, was an '80s Plymouth Turismo. I test drove one in high school. It was cheap, rattly, handled like a wheelbarrow with the wheel missing, and I had to literally stand on the accelerator to get it to move. Anything up to 3/4 of the way down on the gas pedal only seemed to only slightly increase the revs, but not enough to get the car to roll.
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