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The Biggest Turkey?

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Well, when it comes to cars at any rate.

Here's but one listing:

What was the biggest turkey ever made? | The Detroit News

I have another example: I leased a Cadillac Catera in 1999. This car predated the CTS, and it was built by GM's German division. But there was no European quality to the car. It was so buggy I even sued GM under the lemon law.

And I never bought a GM car again. I don't care about the slimmed down GM after the bankruptcy. They lost a customer.
 
My dad owned an edsel..he rembered it as a piece of..ummm you know....
I drove a tucker torpedo once for a 100 yards..I still want one...2.5 mil wil get me one...
 
1972 Mazda RX-2 four-door, in hello, with the Wankel rotary engine. I liked the car, but, before I had 1,000 miles on it, the engine had to be rebuilt. After that, the radiator leaked intermittently, and every so often I had to pump in antifreeze or water. The dealer never figured out why. Another dealer, with the support of Mazda's U.S. headquarters, made a fix that resolved that problem at long last. By the time the car had 65,000 miles on it, the engine was nearly shot, and I traded it in with the manual transmission just about giving out. But I still liked the car because, when the engine purred, it really purred for such an ordinary looking vehicle.
 
Gene Steinberg said:
Well, when it comes to cars at any rate.

Here's but one listing:

What was the biggest turkey ever made? | The Detroit News

I have another example: I leased a Cadillac Catera in 1999. This car predated the CTS, and it was built by GM's German division. But there was no European quality to the car. It was so buggy I even sued GM under the lemon law.

And I never bought a GM car again. I don't care about the slimmed down GM after the bankruptcy. They lost a customer.
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The Hillman Hunter .... Under powered and handled like a battleship in heavy weather........ well until you got it up to speed and then it did not handle at all :confused:
 
My first car was a 74 Nova four door.......owned it 6 months in 1982. Biggest POS ever. Constantly replacing something, and even replacing the water pump and radiator wouldn't stop it over heating all the time.
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It wasn't Thanksgiving but I climbed into the driver's seat of a Yugo one time. Definite turkey technology. I immediately sensed why the Eastern Bloc lost the Cold War. Ronco could have engineered a better car.

Another turkey: A Paracast download that now takes over a half hour. Holy Christmas, Genesplice: What have you done!? The old downloads (around 73Mb) were manageable and had excellent audio quality, better than any other podcast. The uber quality now achieved with a 153Mb file is simply overkill and it takes too long. Has there already been a thread on this issue? Most of us para-hicks don't live in a big city or have access to cable modem speed. I'm guessing much of the audience has what I have: a modest 1.5 Mbps DSL download speed from Ma Bell. Now, every time I download a P-cast, I feel like I just clicked the blue button at Microsoft to download Windows 7 Service Pack 1. Not a good feeling.

I would go on a protest march but it's too cold outside. Instead, I will raise my clenched fist, holding a turkey leg.

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Our network doubled the bit rate from 64K to 128K. Much better audio quality, but as you say, a longer download. Maybe I should do a survey on this?
 
in britain they were known as friday afternoon goods, lemons now, cos everyone gets paid direct to the bank, and not cash on a friday dinner time.
 
Over my life, I've had two cars that would be classified as lemons. That Catera, of course, which was a rush job for Cadillac from GM's Opel division, and a fire engine red Pontiac from many years ago. The Pontiac was great in ride, handling and acceleration. But the transmission failed after 1,000 miles and the thing never stopped rattling. I finally just got rid of it.
 
I had a Plymouth Horizon that was possessed by angry demons. Damn thing broke about once a week. I really didn't need that just then, either, with all sorts of other troubles. Women trouble, lousy job in a crappy economy, psychotic landlord... Don't miss them days!
 
exo_doc said:
My first car was a 74 Nova four door.......owned it 6 months in 1982. Biggest POS ever.
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I dated a girl who drove a '76 Nova. I almost broke up with her simply because it would have freed up every other weekend I spent fixing the P.O.S.

My uncle had a Chevy Vega, GM's answer to the Honda Civic. He consigned it to the junk yard after 28,000 miles.
 
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