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Everything Else => General Automotive => Topic started by: Jericoke on November 03, 2010, 04:22:40 PM
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Very timely... 3 days AFTER Hallowe'en.
Never the less, it's a fun list, including a mix of genuinely dangerous cars, intimidating designs and gas guzzlers
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cartech/the-11-most-evil-cars-of-all-time-50001323/ (http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cartech/the-11-most-evil-cars-of-all-time-50001323/)
It's obviously not American, being un-informed about the Hummer H2 (claiming it is a military design is wrong... it's a GMC pickup with a 2 tonne passgenger cabin slapped on) and the Bronco II (The Bronco OJ Simpson rode in was a completely different vehicle from the Bronco II, and did not share any common design besides the nameplate.)
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The most evil car of all was left out - "The Car" by Steven King...now that was one evil sucker! ;)
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Lol Jeri. :good: :DD :DD
That Chery Amulet from China looks like it should get top ranking, what a coke can that is. >:D Thank the Lord western carmakers stopped making fold up coffins on wheels some years ago.
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Who made up this list? Ralph Nader? :sick:
The Amulet and the Prius I'd agree with. The H2 was just a slick way to get idiots to pay Cadillac money for a Chevy Suburban.
Other than that, most of them were true classics. I thought everybody knew by now that the Pinto scare was just another Nader hoax. The infamous video of the test car exploding was done with a remotely detonated incendiary device. That why there was never an uproar about Mercury Bobcats or Mustang II's exploding, even though they were the same car.
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Who made up this list? Ralph Nader? :sick:
The Amulet and the Prius I'd agree with. The H2 was just a slick way to get idiots to pay Cadillac money for a Chevy Suburban.
Other than that, most of them were true classics. I thought everybody knew by now that the Pinto scare was just another Nader hoax. The infamous video of the test car exploding was done with a remotely detonated incendiary device. That why there was never an uproar about Mercury Bobcats or Mustang II's exploding, even though they were the same car.
I'm pretty sure the guy meant Hummer, not H2. Hard to rail against a car when you've got the wrong one. (Although passing the H2 off as a Hummer was pretty evil.)
As for the Pinto... how about the fact that it lead to the Mustang II being enough to make it evil? (My favorite 'fact' about the Pinto was that while it was dangerous, Ford calculated that the cost of lawsuits was less than the cost of the recall - probably because the danger wasn't very frequent.)
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That TVR Sagaris is one mean lookin' car. 8)
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Cos are you telling me the Pinto wasn't a dangerous car?Looks
like I bought my ex-wife one for nothing then!if only they had
Sagaris's then ;)
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Ralph Nader's major character flaw was his firm belief that if he saw something he "knew" was dangerous then any lie or cheat to "prove" that danger was totally justified. Most of what he wrote in "Unsafe at Any Speed" was equally untrue. As for this list. it contains so many errors it's hard to know where to start. Let's just say it's poorly researched and not all that well written. The author knows very little about cars, or chemistry,
Lonny