If you could *fix* one car what would it be?

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Not that they were anything more than shitboxes when new, but if Chrysler's K-cars from the 80's have proved to be capable of traveling more than 75,000 miles, I expect that company would have a drastically different reputation for reliability today. They sold a buttload of those cars and they all dropped dead a couple years later. But if those buttload of cars had actually proved to be reliable, it would have made the company far stronger.

It is probably the exception that proves the rule, but my old buddy Joel had a Plymouth Reliant that just wouldn't die. Power steering died, started to get to the point where it didn't like to change gears (3 speed auto), exhaust smoked, the whole 9 yards, but it was still kicking with about 220k miles on it. He treated it like the shit it was too. Oil changes maybe once every 15k miles, cheapest crap he could find.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i really liked the chrysler crossfire. too bad it tanked

damn, i thought chrysler killed it off already, but i guess it hasn't reached EOL yet.

it's far overpriced for what it is, but i absolutely loooooooove the design. i just checked chrysler's website, base MSRP is $35k :roll:

 

[MovingTarget]

Ford Pinto?

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Ford Contour. It had a short-lived run in NA (5 years), but the European equivalent (Mondeo) is incredibly widespread and a high-quality vehicle.

 

[Knavish]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
i really liked the chrysler crossfire. too bad it tanked

damn, i thought chrysler killed it off already, but i guess it hasn't reached EOL yet.

it's far overpriced for what it is, but i absolutely loooooooove the design. i just checked chrysler's website, base MSRP is $35k :roll:

Yeah that was by far the coolest car to come out of Chrysler since the viper, even if it is a re-bodied SLK

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: Arkaign

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Not that they were anything more than shitboxes when new, but if Chrysler's K-cars from the 80's have proved to be capable of traveling more than 75,000 miles, I expect that company would have a drastically different reputation for reliability today. They sold a buttload of those cars and they all dropped dead a couple years later. But if those buttload of cars had actually proved to be reliable, it would have made the company far stronger.

It is probably the exception that proves the rule, but my old buddy Joel had a Plymouth Reliant that just wouldn't die. Power steering died, started to get to the point where it didn't like to change gears (3 speed auto), exhaust smoked, the whole 9 yards, but it was still kicking with about 220k miles on it. He treated it like the shit it was too. Oil changes maybe once every 15k miles, cheapest crap he could find.

I love seeing the k-cars at the drap strip. a Reliant smoking a 900HP supra is funny as hell to watch.

As far as what I would "fix" it would be the Silverado line of trucks (well really any half ton from anybody) by putting a smaller turbo desiel in them. GM announced a 4.5L redesigned TD for the 09-10 Suburban but we may never see that.

It was supposed to get 25 ish mpg at 4.5l and almost 500TQ

 

[Zenmervolt]

Merkur XR4Ti. Guess I just like the oddball cars.

ZV

 

[dawp]

not so much model but make

Triumph, always like them and british layland treated them and MG like red headed step children.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Merkur XR4Ti. Guess I just like the oddball cars.

ZV

It was fixed, you just didn't get it in North America:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth

 

[JDub02]

Plymouth Prowler - a bit bigger, big V8, no ugly purple color, and Dodge emblems
PT Cruiser - bigger, RWD, option of a V8 .. more like an old school early 40's sedan

those both had potential "hot rod" looks, but none of the goods to back that up.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Compact Trucks, all of them: How hard would it be to get a small turbo-diesel for one of these things? I would love to have a compact truck, but only a couple even get halfway decent gas mileage. And none of them that do offer any sort of real power.
There are people out there that would be willing to pay for a small truck that has decent power and gets good gas mileage.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Lincoln Town Car (I own one, I'm entitled to my opinions about the car)

It should have had the same drivetrain as the lincoln mark VIII (DOHC V8 with an IRS in the back).

They are still building them for limo services, and they should put the new 3V mod V8 in. They've got epic reliability, great ride quality (except some jitters over the bumps due to the solid rear axle). The town car started loosing ground to the big caddys in the 90's because the northstar V8 was so much more powerful, and the caddys switched to front wheel drive so they didn't have a solid rear axle to screw with the ride quality.

I'd like to see an updated town car with the 3V mod V8 and a decent independent rear suspension released as the next full size lincoln sedan.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Merkur XR4Ti. Guess I just like the oddball cars.

ZV

It was fixed, you just didn't get it in North America:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth

I know. It's the bolded part that I would fix.

ZV