Clearly the author was not alive back in the 1980's. The Escort shown wasn't even sold in the US market.. and that was the beginning of the errors.

You missed the most glaring examples of 80's failures, those being the Yugo, and the first Hyundais

I had an 86 Cavalier and it wasn't going to win any races, but it never left me stranded. It was a great running car even with high mileage.

You do realize that the Cavalier, Cimarron, Firenza and Sunbird are all the same car on GMs J platform, not a good way to stretch your list. Also some of the Sunbird pictures you provide are late 70s models built on a completely different RWD platform.

You keep using the wrong videos of wrong vehicles

Its a pity, the Eagle was a cool car.

Why is he featuring the European Ford Escorts which were never marketed in the USA.

I don't know about other Chevy Citation owners, but I had an 81' and I put 300,000+ miles on it (with average work done on it, i.e. alternator, plugs, and a steering pump, brake pads) and it was still running well when I sold it in 95'.

George Constanza is NOT Cosmo Kramer!!! Derp.

When I met my husband, he had an Omni and I had a Horizon. They were GREAT little cars (at least ours were) - and you could pack tons of stuff in them. HAH! I had an EXP also and it was a great little car although once when I was walking into a store a man came out and commented that it was the ugliest car he'd ever seen. I thought it was cute and I loved it. I wonder who ''rated'' these cars as being the worst because reading comments below many of them were popular and well loved.

The Maserati TC only had the LeBaron engine if you got the auto transmission. If you ordered it with a stick, you also got a Maserati engine.

George bought John Voight's 1989 LeBaron convertible. Not a Chrysler TC. Plus that wasn't in the episode cited. It was in the Seinfeld episode "The Mom & Pop Store".

I've got 4 second gen V6 Cavaliers. 88 Wagon, 88 Z24 coupe, 92 Z24 convertible, 94 Z24 coupe (project car). They're extremely reliable, fun to drive, good gas mileage, comfortable. I'll keep them the rest of my life.

I thought the Chevrolet Chevette would be on this list. I owned one and loved it.

I can almost guarantee you that every single one of those cars has their own fans still to this day, and dare I say--a cult following with fan clubs in their honour, with people keeping those cars alive and still driving them on the road! I can name at least two--the AMC Eagle and Pontiac Fiero, but believe it or not--I'm also still seeing Chevy Citations on the road that people have managed to keep alive for decades, and a Dodge Omni, daily driven by a MECHANIC to and from work every day, probably nursing it to keep it alive, like a vet taking home a deformed dog with parvo, because he feels sorry for it!

Looking back the majority were due to the gas crunch in the 70's and subsequent mileage mandates. I don't disagree with the list; it must have been easy to put together.

The more things I watch on this channel The more I realize no one on this channel knows what they're talking about.

Did anyone notice in the Ford Escort commercial one of "The 2 Ronnies" (an 80's British comedy show) was driving & smiling? I like your videos dude, despite the negative comments

I used to drive some of these cars back in the day. I don't remember them being all that bad.

The Fiero was fine with the V6. The suspension was not that bad just needed a sway bar in the rear you can add. It did not hurt normal driving. The 4K was the only issue most 1984.

you could not find footage of the shitty American ford escorts? The european ones were not nearly as bad as the American ones

I rarely go to the effort of blocking a channel because of how terrible their videos are. Congratulations, you've earned that distinction.

Sorry, but it was Jerry's friend George Costanza, not Kramer who bought a car and it wasn't a Chrysler TC. It was a Chrysler LaBaron. Completely different car.

The VW Cabriolet was a good car. The problem with it was the price. It was a cheap Rabbit convertible with no power that costed what a full-size car with more of everything costed.

You say almost exactly the same thing about each car. This stinks of poor research and terrible writing.

Anybody remember the Dodge Rampage ? The mini Elcamino/Ranchero.😄 .

One of my first cars. Was a Plymouth horizon. It was basically a thorough way car. The Timing.belt was inside the engine. When that thing blew in trash the whole engine. It was a tin can after that. You just threw it away. William

I owned 3 of these cars: Eagle was fun but unreliable, EXP was boring to drive but got me around, Cavalier was one of the most reliable cars I ever owned.

The Ford Escort MK1 was one of the best cars produced in the 70s and is still today with prices high rocketing

The Ford Escort models shown here were all European models, which were incredibly successful. This video shows Escorts from the 1960s and 70s as though they were 80s models, and for reasons that will never be known, images of an MGB were included.

I miss my '87 Fiero SE V6 5-speed, and my '95 TransSport SE...not so much my ex-wife's '79 4-speed Horizon, which was our car when we got hitched in '85...

What is a 'Fire-enza'? 😁😁😁

My first car was an Escort. Pretty good car really:)

My family had a Dodge Omni, it was initially my mother's car, which ended up with my sister for a while. The car overheated on me once and the only warning that it was running hot was big red "engine" light, which could mean anything from "check oil", to overheating, or any other malfunction. I pulled it over, let it cool down and got it home. When my sister had it, the overheating problems continued and my father tried to fix them, but I think he missed the obvious culprit: the radiator, which I believe was partially blocked and not providing sufficient cooling. My sister would run the heater to try to keep the engine cool, but ultimately pushed her luck once too often and cracked the block. I drove passed the car sitting on 495 with no signs of my sister. I called home from a payphone to see if the family had any news, and it turned out my sister was at the business next door to, also calling for help, so I got her where she needed to be and made arrangements to get the car towed somewhere to be looked at.

The European ford escorts were notches above the American counterpart, especially their convertibles!

I had a Pontiac Fiero 6M and a Z34 Chevrolet Cavlier, LOVED both (Standard Shift) cars and powerful for sure.

My Grandfather was a loyal Chrysler man. He had a Valiant, Scamp, Coronet, and finally an Omni. Man did he ever curse at that Omni!💩

I had a Chevy Citation a Pontiac Phoenix and a Ford Escort. And yes they sucked badly. My good one was the 1986 Buick Century, loved it.

Oh yes, the Pontiac Fiero, that was a rolling molotov cocktail.

Ah Ford Escort of the 80’s, drove a 1983 wagon with 5 speed manual. Was one in shop monthly and 5 speed was clunky. Only things that worked with no problems was air conditioner and brakes. Learned what Ford was a synonym for than and it was “Fix Or Repair Daily” and fully loaded understood and dealt with it on a monthly basis and sometimes more.

i love my chevy citation overall great mpg 25 we had the hatchback 1981 grove it for 17 yrs

I can affirm the Crappiness of the EXP. I had a red one just like the video. Broke the Timing belt around fifty K. Just toasted the entire valve assembly. Then had to fight the Dealership to get the damn thing fixed. Ended up having to threaten to take them to court before they did it.

Also, once the bugs were fixed, the Omni GLH and GLHS were sleepers.

Why are you showing footage of the British Ford Escort MK1 which were first made in the late 1960's

THE AMC WAS AHEAD OF ITS TIME. GREAT CAR.

The AMC Eagle was a pioneer in it's role as a four by four SUV. In Switzerland some people living in mountainous areas loved that car. There were only three options, a rough Jeep style offroader, a Subaru or the Eagle. I have friends who claim that the Eagle was very good in steep terrain and gravel roads. Compared to the terrible not existing capability on snow or ice of the average US car it was really a mountain climber. When Chrysler swallowed American Motors the Eagle was axed. But I bet the Chryser build quality of the Eighties was worse than the one of the AMC Eagle.

Hey, I thought the Omni and Horizon that saved Chrysler Corporation from bankruptcy and going belly up

I had a 1885 Fiero 2M4 & 1986 2M6. The 2M6 model caught fire as the motors on them overheated & both has a poor fiberglass body. Other issue is GM in the 1980's had paint issues causing peeling & cracks as they used poor clear coat on them as my old 1985 Buick Skyhawk, 1986 Camaro IROC-Z & my 1987 Buick Grand National did.

I didnt believe all these cars were so bad. I knew people that had Chevy Cavaliers and Ford Escorts back then and had no major problems.

Well I'm one that like the eagle, but I'm also a big fan of AMC despite the reputation of AMC they had some very good cars.. Now I also loved the Dodge colt bought one in the 80's turbo charge. I knew of a 12 mile strip of road i could test the car and took up 135mph all the way of that 12 miles and never had any problems with the car..

AMC eagle has a cult following to this day

The Hyundai Excel. The dashboard would fall off. Nuff said. I had a 1985 Nissan 200sx and it started falling apart within 1 year. And also a 1988 Ford Mustang where the hood wouldn’t latch and Ford said it wasn’t an issue.

The Horizon was “trash” My dad was in the dealer every month…. And then he bought a Subaru. My parents switched to Japanese cars.

My 1987 Cavalier was actually one of my better cars.

The caviler, sunbird, cimeron, and frienze were all basically the same car and horrible, the citation was a death trap. The Omni and the AMC Eagle were okay

I have to say this video is not always right there is a lot of cavaliers and a lot of Ford escorts still on the road today

That “serious off road buyers” found the AMC Eagle lacking didn’t seem to phase the design or sales of future SUVs and crossovers. One thing I noted was the continued use of some lever mounted in the middle of the car that drivers had to be working with their right arms…

A lot of these cars even with minimal maintenance. Would take you well past 100k! People were not about maintenance at the time. The big 3 built cars knowing that.

Our Citation was good. They should have made it an automatic rather than a stick shift. But I didn’t hate it. They are talking about the cars of the 80’s but one car we had that ran like a bullet was a 1975 Gremlin (AMC). We bought it in Germany and that thing drove on the autobahn like nobody’s business! So many cars built so cheap and so poorly. Before the 80’s you could buy a car and it was like a tank. And the number of cars on the road from the 50-60’s is legendary. The cars had looks and performance along with reliability. And how many guys learned to fix cars handing tools to their dad under the hood of a car or pick up? Yes we have a lot of improvements since then but there is so much they should have left alone. One of them was dad and son (maybe daughters) fixing the family car.

The LeBaron was a great car. It lasted almost 20 years.

The ford escort, seriously ? The mk1 alone sold over 2 million on its own never mind the later models, escorts are much desired today as a classic especially the sporty ones

Why did they show a picture of the early '70's Chevy Monte Carlo when this video is covering '80's cars ?

I use have a Plymouth Horizon. It didn't have power....well anything but it was damn near unkillable. It had a little Mitsubishi 4 banger. Had over 250xxx miles on it when i sold it, saw the guy i sold it to a couple years later and he still had it with over 325xxx miles on it and was still going.

My Aspen was good. My Horizon was good. I had 4 Dodge 600 and they were real good.

Oh yes! I remember. We were reminded on a daily basis on how awful our cars were. By implication, we should just give up and go buy a Japanese or German car. It seemed hopeless, almost as if we were being played...

I had a 1985 dodge omni. Yep it sucked.

What about the Chrysler K Cars?

You’re showing the European models they don’t even have those over here come on let’s get it right

There's over 1 million words in the English language but all are lackluster compared to the best word of all: "lackluster."

It's like spraying potpourri on a turd. It's still a turd, but now it smells funny. I guess that's how incense are made 🤔

MY 13 worst 1980s cars: 1. Renault Alliance. 2. Chevy Cavalier/Pontiac Sunbird/Cadillac Cimmaron, etc. 3. Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon/TC3/024. 4. Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz. 5. Hyundai Pony. 6. Chevy Citation 7. Chevy Spectrum. 8. Ford Escort. 9. Ford Aerostar. 10. Volkswagen Fox. 11. Fiat Strada. 12. Lada. 13. Yugo.

This list is too redundant, listing several GM J-body cars separately, when the Cadillac Cimarron was the only one really deserving of being on this list. Far more deserving would be cars like the Renault Alliance/Encore, the Yugo GV, and the first-generation Hyundai Excel.

cadillac cimarron was a $10.000 chevy cavilar only cadillac badge lol

Don't agree with Horizon. I drove multiple K cars in the 1980s while I was in college. They were not bad cars, they were cheap and they were throwaway cars, but i do not believe they belong on this list.

AMC Eagle was a cool car and I want it back.

Strange vid as some of the cars talked about sold very well and were loved. Half the time the cars shown are the car being talked about.

i had a 1st year firenza, what a piece of junk, computer issues as well as many engine issues

I see a lot of Visit Advertiser, where is the substantiality of the promised video?

My god, what a garbage list. The Citation, the GM J cars, the Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon, the Pontiac Fiero, the Chrysler LeBaron, the AMC Eagle, the Ford Escort and the Ford EXP are all the cars I want back.

The Video keeps saying the issues, but won't tell what issues they are. Makes this video flat on specifics about the reliability, handling, etc it keeps mentioning.

This channel blows

Fieros are actually collector cars now, so...

There seems to be confusion about what a Ford Escort is with with a mixture of cars and models being shown as examples, including one shot being of an MGB. The original Ford Escort was a HUGE success and one of the hottest cars of it's time dominating in many branches of motorsport. The Ford Escort was one of the most successful models ever produced by the Ford Motor Company and one many people would have wished they could own resulting in it retaining very high values in the second-hand car market. Whoever put this item together seems to have done very little research and is not really a knowledge person when it comes to motor cars.

early ford escorts that's the english version right hand drive looks like a opel

Every single one of these cars have the same thing in common, boring block bodies. No style

In Europe the first generation of the Ford Escort has many enthusiastic fans. One reason might be that it was successful in rallies. Me personally I never liked it or had any interest in it. In the Eighties I always said, I will buy anything but a Ford or a Renault. By the way I learned ot drive in a first gen Ford Capri.

Cimarron by Cadillac lol

16:26 Fire Enza, lmao

The fiero has a cult following and cars in good shape can easily go for thousands of dollars.

How about the LaCar?

Oldsmobile Fire endza

Irrespective of build quality and similar considerations, so many 'Murican cars from this time were just "a face only a mother could love" ugly.

You make a video of failed 80's cars and you don't mention DeLorean? You mention Back to the future... The DeLorean failed so bad the factory closed and the owner went on trial.

That is the British version of the Escort, while the American version look different and it sucked. The British version is very reliable.

mostly American cars, thank you Roger Smith

Love your content, however your film quality is really lacking.

horizon and omni was an american version of the vw rabbit

Merely opinion.

The Yugo should never ever return. It was and still is the worst car ever!!!

GM J cars maybe some of the best GM cars ever. They kept going and going and going. I had a 86 Cavalier. My Dad an 84. Best friend 88 and girlfriend 89 we all loved them. As for the Omni the GLH Turbos were a beast. You obviously know nothing of cars. Worst 80's cars. Yugo, Hyundai Pony, Stellar and Excel. Early 80's Civic's rusted and valve seals. Rx7 garbage total garbage. GM X cars. Brutal recals. Nissan Stanza rust rust and more rust. Renault Alliance under powered and fell apart. Any BMW electrical Knight mare those are trully bad list of cars sold in the 80's in North America. You actually said AMC Eagle. The 258 straight six maybe one of the best engines ever made. Wow. Just Wow.