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My fourth Festiva. I kept it going out of sheer stubborness and force of will, at least until the wheel fell off. Kinda liked the first 3, so easy and cheap to fix up. Plus I had zero qualms about drilling what ever holes I wanted in the roof for antennas. Often the antennas were bigger than the cars.
 
1999 Mercedes ML430. Performance and handling were great, but it was $54k when we bought it new and it started falling apart right off the bat.

Windows stopped working several times due to failing switches (yeah, luxury car with a garbage bag taped to the side windows to keep out rain).

Door insulation melted off and came up when the windows were raised (really nasty looking sticky, greasy brown tar paper stuff) and the fix was to remove the insulation.

The fuel guage would go to full and then drop to zero when filling up.

Computer was replaced twice.

Once at a gas station far from home during a snowstorm it wouldn't start.

Plus just to annoy me, there was a horrible metallic rattle that wasn't found nor fixed for a few years. Drove me nuts.

Saving grace was that it was SO bad that I drove it like a maniac (often drove home from work after midnight back then for several years), hoping that anything that would break would do so while still under warranty and this was actually great training for car racing. 😆

I sold it last year for $1800. Good riddance.
 
green 64 bug. my friend's dubbed it the lime green time machine. hydraulic brakes failed while moving downhill at about 45, had to make a hard right to avoid head-on with a bus at the end of a two-way, hard downshifting, pedestrian taking his good ol' time crossing, i'm leaning on the horn (the equivalent of an old bicycle bulb horn) and screaming at him from my open window, dude doesn't get it... he dove out of the way last second as i screamed past...

same car, another day, driving in pouring rain on 76 in Philly, the little driver-side wiper flies off. drove home with my dome out the window in the downpour.

f* that car.
 
I dunno, man.

I've heard the joke of paying someone to take a car, but never known anyone to do it!
Close. We sold our 1972 Pinto for $75 after it blew up in the driveway then wouldn't go more than about 15mph (while sounding like a farting elephant).

But I can't really complain. I don't think we paid much for it and my mother drove that car about 150 miles each day for a couple of years while she went to nursing school. Then I drove it for a couple of years to high school and back. It wasn't a bad car.

I can't really complain about any car I have owned even though I used to buy cheap chunk like my first convertible, a LeBaron back when they based it on the K-car. After a few years it became difficult to shut the doors. The combination of long, heavy doors and a weak frame (exasperated by cutting off the roof) made everything warp and sag. But the car was affordable, big, comfortable, and a convertible and I enjoyed driving it.
 

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