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I read an interview about the Aston Martin Cygnet with the then boss of Aston Martin. Apparently, the Cygnet was actually nothing to do with emission targets (as Aston Martin didn't sell enough cars for the emission targets to apply.) Instead, it was done because some market research claimed there was a demand for a city car daily driver amongst Aston owners, although it was clearly bad market research
There probably _is_ and was demand for a daily driver amongst Aston owners but that means/meant something more along the lines of the DBX and not the Cygnet.
See the link below and read the number three reason for them introducing the Cygnet spoken by the same boss that you speak of. When you're talking auto company, the main reason is usually not the first reason. You have to make money. Mercedes introduced Smart for the same reason... to avoid penalties for not meeting European emissions. Aston didn't have the money to produce it's own car, so they turned to Toyota. The video isn't wrong. www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/aston-why-we-built-cygnet
@@terbennett I can't find the interview I was thinking of (retrospectively I think it might have been a designer), but I found one with the then chairman of Aston martin. When asked whether the motive behind the Cygnet was CO2 targets , He responded "No, it was fundamentally based on customer demand. The notion that maybe our customers are conscious about their own behaviour and green aspects of their lives, and driving a car like Cygnet in the city is perfect - leaving the DB9 for a blast in the country." Whilst I agree manufacturers are rarely honest with their actual justifications of business plans given that number 1 and 2 are 'To avoid going bankrupt' and 'Because we think it will sell' I think it's safe to say reason number 3 was more of a happy coincidence. Particularly since Aston Martin sold too few cars to be fined at the time, and have made little effort to reduce CO2 now fines have been implemented. www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/aston-martin/car-reader-interviews-aston-martin-chairman-david-richards-2012/
The delorean parts and tooling were all sold to a company in Texas. They can get you any part you need and they also sell tuning kits to make more power
But they still did rust a lot... i am also fan of them... my uncles were going with very used one into mountains to ski for longer time, and when they looked under it, they were suprised, than they didnt fall trough with the seats into the snow😂😂😂 they said than they feel when they drive into a puddle, than their toes are getting moist😂😂😂 they have restored the entire car after four days of the 5 week trip, because they were too scared to drive it😀😀😂😂😂
The trabant is literally one of the best slalom race car platforms there is, they weight nothing to begin with, and they can be further lightened. An engine swap, some suspension mods and some nice tyres and you have a slalom course beast.
Well the Isetta was being built in license and yes it was slow and whatsoever, but it prevented BMW to go full bankrupt and helped it become the company we know today....
Fun fact: in Poland, to be exact in Marki, there are two trabants just straight-up decomposing under a big piece of fabric. They are standing on a pavement in the middle of a small city. Bruh
@@MetalTrabant Which is why no one uses it for cars anymore. It's an environmental nightmare once a vehicle has outlived its usefulness. It's also why Volkswagen used recycled Zwickau parts as an aggregate for cement blocks in the mid-1990s.
The worst car ever made has to be the Lancia Monte Carlo because it's the only car that wasn't equipped with brake's. I actually really like them, but once I learned about the brakes well😒
@@One-sk4fp It's true though, well at first it came with brake's that would just lock up & send the car spinning into a tree. Lancia halted production of the car to fix the issue, what they did was remove the brake servo - so than you had no brake's at all. There was no Lancia's in Chris's list despite them creating some of the worst car's ever made to me. The Lancia Gamma for instance exploded every time you turned the steering wheel, just had to have a death insurance if you bought one. Than you have the Lancia Beta that was equipped with metal panel's so thin that on a windy day it would actually change shape & be subject to rusting too quickly - you learned never to leave them outside during a storm if you wanted to come back to a car instead of a rusting trash pile. They are one of the most polarizing car manufactures because they built car's that would have incredible success on the racing scene despite them being so impractical that they were outright dangerous.
5:40 just want to clarify about the Trabant 601, the worst thing about it was the fact it wasn't developed. Yes the 2-stroke engine was terrible and the bodywork rubbish, but because it was built for more than 40 years the same, everyone made fun of it.
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The V6 Fiero made for the last year,1988, was a decent car. They gave it a new front suspension that worked and the 2.8 six when serviced right has shown it can run for ages. Typical GM. Make the car work right then undersell it and kill it because Lord knows we can’t have a fun two seater for the masses. Me, if someone gave me one I’d go find a wrecked GMC Terrain with the 301hp 3.6 V6 and figure out how to stuff that in there. Now THAT engine will do well past 100,000 miles with just common service. Mines at 105,000 and counting. Winds to seven grand with a nice note. Yep, GM killed that engine choice too a few years ago. I see a pattern here.
My father in law was one of the test drivers for the Delorean cars here in Northern Ireland back during production and he said that he had to be cut out of more deloreans than he could keep count of because anytime he rolled one on the test track, there was no other way to open the doors than to cut them off 😆
@@PerpetualTiredness funny thing aside, it isn't really a BMW at all. It was developed by an italian car maker called Iso (hence the name Isetta). BMW bought the patents, improved it and built is as BMW Isetta.
Just a small point on the DeLorean spares ("good luck on getting any spares") - there's a US based company which I think is actually called DMC that bought up all the stock and even original equipment to make some of the panels and plastic moulds/parts, so you could in effect build a DeLorean from scratch - a bit like how you can buy almost a complete MG MGB from the heritage company in the UK.
Back in High School I lusted after the Ferrari kit for the Fiero. I wanted to don a Hawaiian shirt, grow (or glue on) a bushy moustache, and fly off in my Hughes 500 helicopter. Magnum P.I. was the pinnacle of sexy in the 80s and Pontiac brought it a step closer to us plebes.
We have the predecessor of this car, the DS3 cabrio, and holy shit The roof is SO unreliable It have seized itself one time and Citroën is asking 7500€ for changing the whole roof...but the mechanism is fine you just need to unseized it Just because they don't grease rails!
It's possible that the Trabant 601 is a bad car, but here in Hungary, they were extremely popular in the '70-80s. There were at least 4 of them in every street.😂 Nowadays, they have some cult as well 🙂
...a warehouse that hasn't been used full stop and won't be for the foreseeable future. Every time we have seen reports of "spare parts AVAILABLE" or "Production WILL RESTART NEXT YEAR" and nothing of actual substance has materialised. 2015: Failure, 2018: Failure, 2020: Failure.
Ok let’s get this straight once and for all! The trabant was an excellent and pioneering car! When it came out in the early sixties that 26hp was more than enough from a car that only weighed around 600kg thanks to being made from a revolutionary lightweight material. Let’s also not forget that it got that 26hp from a 600cc engine. A fiat 500 only had about 12 and the early minis of the time only made 34hp. The trabant also had the same layout as the mini being front engined and front wheel drive witch was very advanced for the time. It was also much more practical and didn’t rust so f**k everyone who thinks it wasn’t a charming and ingenious car.
Making the body out of recycled material is not a minus - as the video may suggest. And I am sure the "dirty underwear" are washed and processed before becoming a Trabi. The major disadvantage was the lack of major development and improvements in the 30+ years it was produced. Which, btw is a political decision, not lack of engineers at Trabant.
I understand that there was a camp tent model of the Trabant. (Tent folded out from the car for overnight camping space) also some SAABs had smoking 2 stroke engines
The Trabant was my dad's first car (in communist Romania, back in the 80s) and, tbh, it wasn't that bad. It had a motorbike engine and it was also very light, so it wasn't really a slouch (at least compared with those days Dacias). The engine surely made a rumble and sometimes you would blind those behind with blue smoke, but other than that it was quite okay. As for the bodywork, I recall it being made out of compressed carton, not "cotton". Anyway, it reminds me of my childhood and some great drives around the country, so I'm both sorry and glad to see it on this list :).
You are wrong. There's documentary on RUclips about Trabant and how it was made. Body parts were made from cotton mixed with epoxy resin and then pressed to desired form.
That's a thing that car haulers do. They put solid pucks under the springs to boost the ride height so that they don't damage the undercarriage during loading and unloading. The person taking delivery of the vehicle (usually a dealer) will pretty much always have them removed.
It was only made from compressed cotton waste and resin. That's what the DDR got from the Soviet Union to build a car, they've kept the valuable steel for themselves for mostly military purposes.
The Isetta was a great car, I had two in the sixties, we had scooters in the summer and Isettas in the Winter. No-one ever got hurt in one, they would cruise at 50 topping out at 65 down a long hill. You could get 3 into them as long as one had his head out of the sunroof and his feet on the seat. Girls loved them because they were warmer, more private and errr, had room enough, nudge nudge. Defo a better pull than a scooter on a cold night. We took six of them from Bristol to Torquay for a week and had the time of our lives, no breakdowns and plenty of action. Mine did blow up a week later leaving engine bits all over the road but I still got a good px against my next scooter. So don’t badmouth the Isetta, it was a champ.
@James Ring The were cool. But they weren't what you would call fast today. I've always liked the looks of the white and blue Cobra on Charlie's Angeles. I'm sure it was a dog.
@Carwow, a year ago you were close to 3M subscribers, you’re ALMOST at 5M subscribers now, can we hit the 5M mark by the end of 2020 - hope so, such a great channel. Keep up the great work from me here in Sydney Australia.
Matt I expect so much more from you. You had three mistakes on the first car. Back to the future was released in 1985 one year after the Delorean factory closed, parts are actually very easy to get since all the unused parts from production were purchased by an American company, and lastly Delorean was acquired on the drug charges when the courts ruled the government sting was entrapment (they approached him with the idea knowing he needed cash fast). Then you show a Fiero with a front fire when the engine is in the rear. Shame on you.
The marketing power of Back to Future didn't mean much for the DeLorean when the first film came out 3 years after the company went bust lol. That being said the worst part of DeLorean is the reliability. I owned one for a few years and it stranded me 3 times, all for electrical issues.
Someone correct me if I m wrong but wasn't there a Trabbi with a 50 HP Polo engine? I met someone in france a few years ago that drove all the way from Berlin pulling a caravan...🙆♂️
Pinto is number one because Ford refused to do any thing about the fuel tank problem. It was too expensive to fix them , so the opted to pay the lawsuit intead
1:10 The PRV engine came in versions (presumably without U.S. emissions equipment) that produced up to 197 HP without turbocharging. I'm surprised that Delorean didn't make these available in the markets where such engines would have been legal. If they were trying to sell cars that met U.S. emissions standards in markets with looser requirement, it's no wonder they couldn't compete.
The PRV was not only of a low tune but, the contracted engines were of far lower quality, everything from block materials, piston spec, rods, heads to bearing, anything to save cost per unit bought in, often against the advice of Renault whom actually built the engines👍
"There is no way electric cars will ever take off if they're anything like this. How wrong was I?" Not wrong at all! Electric cars, today, are taking of because they're NOTHING like the G-Wiz.
Most people : look at you in the mustang 2. Then : A focus RS passes you when drag racing. You in the mustang 2 : Am I a joke to you? Other people : yes.
When i was a small kid, I always thought that it is an accomplishment to make an electric car. And the car was REVAi ( G-Wiz ) And when I first saw Tesla in videos. My head jumped.
I remember as a young man growing up in the USA during the 1970's the Ford pintos as terrible cars. They also had a problem if rear ended in a crash the tended to explode.
Because if you do research the Reliant robin isn’t bad at all. You can’t call it out as the worst if it’s the 2nd most successful fibreglass car on the planet
The Isetta did very well, given its task (small, cheap, surprisingly sizeable and more comfortable than a motorbike). you basically only state the small, slow car was slow and didnt have a crumple zone (which no car had back then).
Mercedes-Benz A-klasse (W168, 1997). Flipping over when doing evasive manoeuvre to avoid hitting something, like the "Elk-test". MB First denied this was the case, but did issue a recalling of all units sold to date (2,600) and suspending sales for three months until the problem was solved by adding electronic stability control and modifying the suspension.
Facts about the DeLorean are incomplete by miles. The engine was used in the Renault alpine and won races, emission demands made it slow. Drugs had something to do with the car? For a car developed in 18 months and built by people that never had built cars before it was not to bad. And everybody wants one!!! Living the dream 💪
I think he was using a bit of 'artistic license' here, but you're right about the V6, it was one of those engines (a bit like the old Buick based Rover V8) that was used in a multitude of different cars. Commonly referred to as the 'Douvrin' engine, it was a joint venture between Peugeot, Renault and Volvo, so it was also used in such 'classics' as the Renault 25, various large Peugeot/Citroens of the period and as you say also made it into the later Alpine models such as the GTA/A610. It came in a few different configurations which included SOHC & DOHC multi-valve versions. The same goes for the gearbox too, which IIRC was also the same one used in the non-V8 Lotus Esprit. On the drugs thing, it gets a bit exaggerated, but it did contribute to the demise of the company. It came about when John DeLorean was arrested as part of an FBI sting operation where he was accused of being involved in a dodgy deal which IIRC involved some sort of money laundering. The British gov't had invested in the company as part of a job creation program for Northern Ireland so, as Mat said, naturally when they realised they weren't going to get their money back they went after the assets. John DeLorean himself had been an important senior figure in the US car industry up to that point, but decided he wanted to start his own company, then got the tax breaks and funding to encourage him to establish operations in Northern Ireland.
@@Luckyjo21 well ok I guess,do you think that everyone should own a car to have a opinion on it?? I am sorry if it's your favourite car and I hurt your feelings
Fun fact. During the 80s when the dmc factory was in the north of Ireland they had like 70 percent of people in the local housing estates working there as the British government actually paid delorean to build a factory there as the area had no other businesses for people to get employed
I'm so glad that you've put the DMC DeLorean into this list. I think it's a bloody awful car in both style and make. A hotchpotch of unreliability and mostly built from the reject parts bin from the extinct British Leyland. Add to that, it was also built by people who had absolutely zero mechanical knowledge.
@@thezanzibarbarian5729, I haven't heard of it. John DeLorean was a man from GM, and the engine was from PRV, so... what are British Leyland parts are you talking about?
@@vladvulcan Engine was from Peugeot. The rest of the running gear, suspension, brakes et al, was BL rubbish (I'm no mechanic!). So was the switchgear and wiring looms et al. So it might have had the Lotus input, but it was replaced by BL rubbish to make it cheaper to build. Plus those that built it were, let's be nice to them, totally clueless. Give them a nut and bolt and they'd look for a screwdriver to put them together :-))...
Fun Fact: the famous feature of the DeLorean in Back to the Future was three years after the company's bankruptcy. And the reason they decided to use the DeLorean as the time machine was mainly because nobody knew this car, so they could sell it as Doc's own backyard creation. (Plus it did look futuristic). Thus, even the one thing that makes the DeLorean famous and popular among collectors is thanks to it being a terrible car
Thank you for not mentioning the ford edsel, I hate when people say it was a bad car. My grandpa has one and it is a really durable and solid car despite not being popular
Mat, please review Aston Martin cygnet! It even got leather on the steering wheel! I really liked it but you said it looks ugly but it doesn't look that much ugly as you said. Well if you want to review it than do it. Merry Christmas! Thanks.
My old man had a bubble car. Drove from Portsmouth to Hamilton in Scotland when I was being born. Took him 30 hours straight. He upgraded to a reliant robin.......only at 2nd car on Matt's list so will await to see if the upgrade was worse. Think he had two Reliants.......in those days they were all he could afford.
Wow! Almost all of the facts about the Delorean was wrong or half wrong. - Stainless steel is true. - BTTF came out AFTER DMC went bankrupt. It had no marketing value to the car's sales. - 130 HP is true, however it is important to mention, that most sports car in the era had 110-170 hp. The Delorean was not the fastest for sure, but it was in the middle. - The Delorean's maximum speed is about 140 mph, which is 200 km/h. I don't know how you got the 109. I say again, not the fastest, but far from the worst. - Build quality is half true. This 200 hours number is only true to the first few hundred cars, maybe few thousands, those quality was really far from perfect. After about VIN 3000-4000 serious quality improvement happened. - The factory inventory is still available, new parts are even made. For me, it is only two days to buy spare parts and wait them to arrive. Two days!!! What are you talking about? - Yes, John Delorean was arrested, but he was acquitted, because of entrapment. Quite an important fact, if you ask me. And I just saw the first part, so I can imagine the rest. So sorry, but not the Delorean was rubbish, but this video.
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Ford Pinto!!!
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Yeah the second car is the worst! 😒
pinto
old hondas
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@@CrystalMethEnjoyer lol
Hi straight pipes
Lmao
I read an interview about the Aston Martin Cygnet with the then boss of Aston Martin. Apparently, the Cygnet was actually nothing to do with emission targets (as Aston Martin didn't sell enough cars for the emission targets to apply.) Instead, it was done because some market research claimed there was a demand for a city car daily driver amongst Aston owners, although it was clearly bad market research
There probably _is_ and was demand for a daily driver amongst Aston owners but that means/meant something more along the lines of the DBX and not the Cygnet.
Thank you for the information 👍👍 keep up the good work
See the link below and read the number three reason for them introducing the Cygnet spoken by the same boss that you speak of. When you're talking auto company, the main reason is usually not the first reason. You have to make money. Mercedes introduced Smart for the same reason... to avoid penalties for not meeting European emissions. Aston didn't have the money to produce it's own car, so they turned to Toyota. The video isn't wrong.
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/aston-why-we-built-cygnet
@@terbennett I can't find the interview I was thinking of (retrospectively I think it might have been a designer), but I found one with the then chairman of Aston martin.
When asked whether the motive behind the Cygnet was CO2 targets
, He responded
"No, it was fundamentally based on customer demand. The notion that maybe our customers are conscious about their own behaviour and green aspects of their lives, and driving a car like Cygnet in the city is perfect - leaving the DB9 for a blast in the country."
Whilst I agree manufacturers are rarely honest with their actual justifications of business plans given that number 1 and 2 are 'To avoid going bankrupt' and 'Because we think it will sell' I think it's safe to say reason number 3 was more of a happy coincidence. Particularly since Aston Martin sold too few cars to be fined at the time, and have made little effort to reduce CO2 now fines have been implemented.
www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/aston-martin/car-reader-interviews-aston-martin-chairman-david-richards-2012/
@@markbeattie1553 It's interesting because it's a Toyota. . It has to be the most reliable car Aston has ever sold under the Aston name.
We need peel p50 vs bmw isetta drag race right now !
You on some FH4 flex right now lol.
Peel trident vz peel p50
Bmw would slap it
Meshersmitt microcar vs bmw isetta vs peel p50
Yes pls good idea
3:45 PT Cruiser made it to the list without even being on the list 🤣
Chrysler PT Cruiser: I am the worst car ever
Ford Pinto: Hold my beer
*hold my fuel tank
@@jasperbergman6299 Probably nothing left to hold
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ohhh the infamous pinto.
Fiat multipla
The delorean parts and tooling were all sold to a company in Texas. They can get you any part you need and they also sell tuning kits to make more power
What this Lunatic, macho, selfish, egocentric playboy have done to Northern Ireland. Watch the Netflix documentary, it's a hell of a story.
They certainly need the extra power😊
yeah but there are only about 7 surviving deloreans in the world today.
@@oojimmyflip there's an estimated 6500 deloreans on the road today.
@@pappaslivery and how much does one cost
“How wrong was I” well... actually you were right, they took off because they didn’t look and drive like that 🤣
Yep.
Exactly.
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Ssangyong Rodius beats every single one of these 10. PERIOD.
Its such a ugly car too.
just cause its ugly doesn't mean its rubbish, 'worst cars' not ugliest.
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@@DutchBane but it's very reliable
The De Tomaso Pantera is definitely the worst car ever made.
Matt: ‘Petrol’
Suspicious Americans
MATT: ‘sorry, GAAHS’
americans tend to have a lot of gas.... maybe thanks to fast food
@@skkh5108 pls delete your comment. Im tried seeing these self promotings.
Liquid gas.
@@APedroSanchez Lol 😂
Get you hands of the Trabant, its a legendary car :)
We had a drive in one when we went over to Germany just after the wall came down.......not nice.
MgB969 there’s none left, they were eaten by the pigs. 😄
it doesn’t matter
But they still did rust a lot... i am also fan of them... my uncles were going with very used one into mountains to ski for longer time, and when they looked under it, they were suprised, than they didnt fall trough with the seats into the snow😂😂😂 they said than they feel when they drive into a puddle, than their toes are getting moist😂😂😂 they have restored the entire car after four days of the 5 week trip, because they were too scared to drive it😀😀😂😂😂
Unlike you
The trabant is literally one of the best slalom race car platforms there is, they weight nothing to begin with, and they can be further lightened. An engine swap, some suspension mods and some nice tyres and you have a slalom course beast.
If you want to buy a Trabant, you had to wait about 18 years until its built
You just had to wait because of bureacratic problems within the communism in the DDR. To build one didn´t took 18 years!
Same with other Soviet vehicles as i heard
@@bandvitromania9642, it wasn't Soviet
@@vladvulcan East German. Better?
@@bandvitromania9642, yeah, certainly
Well the Isetta was being built in license and yes it was slow and whatsoever, but it prevented BMW to go full bankrupt and helped it become the company we know today....
The Isetta is a lovely car.
@@HnK_Alex ikr
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@@HnK_Alex yeah it is a wonder for kids and my cat who apparently loves it 🤣
And even BMW 700 helped save BMW.
To be honest no one remembers any BMWs beofre the new class came out.
Fun fact: in Poland, to be exact in Marki, there are two trabants just straight-up decomposing under a big piece of fabric.
They are standing on a pavement in the middle of a small city.
Bruh
Weren't they wartburgs?
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My neighbour drives trabant, it doesn't sound like any other car 😂
Duroplast can't decompose... only the steel base.
@@MetalTrabant Which is why no one uses it for cars anymore. It's an environmental nightmare once a vehicle has outlived its usefulness. It's also why Volkswagen used recycled Zwickau parts as an aggregate for cement blocks in the mid-1990s.
In Germany we don’t say Trabant, we say: “Wow was für ein cooler Trabi!“ and I think this is beautiful.
genau :D
noone ever said that unless he was born on the communist side lol
@@soundofeighthooves nah u wrong
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@Simp Simpson i thought you say God shave the queen
Worst car = everyone with soft limiter
The worst car ever made has to be the Lancia Monte Carlo because it's the only car that wasn't equipped with brake's.
I actually really like them, but once I learned about the brakes well😒
@@brantleyfoster021 Oh that's interesting haha
Trabant didnt have soft limiter,😃 didnt have even rev counter😅😁😂😂
@@One-sk4fp
It's true though, well at first it came with brake's that would just lock up & send the car spinning into a tree.
Lancia halted production of the car to fix the issue, what they did was remove the brake servo - so than you had no brake's at all.
There was no Lancia's in Chris's list despite them creating some of the worst car's ever made to me.
The Lancia Gamma for instance exploded every time you turned the steering wheel, just had to have a death insurance if you bought one.
Than you have the Lancia Beta that was equipped with metal panel's so thin that on a windy day it would actually change shape & be subject to rusting too quickly - you learned never to leave them outside during a storm if you wanted to come back to a car instead of a rusting trash pile.
They are one of the most polarizing car manufactures because they built car's that would have incredible success on the racing scene despite them being so impractical that they were outright dangerous.
@@brantleyfoster021 holy shit
5:40 just want to clarify about the Trabant 601, the worst thing about it was the fact it wasn't developed. Yes the 2-stroke engine was terrible and the bodywork rubbish, but because it was built for more than 40 years the same, everyone made fun of it.
*During a war*
"Marshall, we are out of missiles! What do we now now!?"
"Don't worry, we have a few Pontiac Fieros in stock, launch them instead"
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The V6 Fiero made for the last year,1988, was a decent car. They gave it a new front suspension that worked and the 2.8 six when serviced right has shown it can run for ages. Typical GM. Make the car work right then undersell it and kill it because Lord knows we can’t have a fun two seater for the masses. Me, if someone gave me one I’d go find a wrecked GMC Terrain with the 301hp 3.6 V6 and figure out how to stuff that in there. Now THAT engine will do well past 100,000 miles with just common service. Mines at 105,000 and counting. Winds to seven grand with a nice note. Yep, GM killed that engine choice too a few years ago. I see a pattern here.
Make that 90 likes
you know about the ford pinto jokes right?
:-))
“Now if you’re thinking about bu...”
*smashes the skip 5 secs function on my phone screen”
@@CRBMA7 no. Get outta here and delete your comment pls
@@scuckplexity
What did he say?
@@f-1174 I think he was doing self promoting
@@f-1174 self promoting. Very normal thing
My father in law was one of the test drivers for the Delorean cars here in Northern Ireland back during production and he said that he had to be cut out of more deloreans than he could keep count of because anytime he rolled one on the test track, there was no other way to open the doors than to cut them off 😆
Can't wait for another drag race between Mat vs Mat'Mom vs Joe!
Yeah man.
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@@dublaj0450 I thought that it would be a carwow drag race
G-Wiz single handedly responsible for ruining the reputation of electric cars for over a decade.
4:23 "We are the biggest market for convertibles and yet, our weather is rubbish."
-Matthew Watson.
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The Isetta is a great car.Hey,even the boys from Wheeler Dealers bought one to restore,
which then was sold to the BMW UK Museum.
The Isetta is the ugliest BMW ever made and that's including the i3. I totally forgot it was on Wheeler Dealers.
@@PerpetualTiredness but it lasts more than any new BMW:-))
@@PerpetualTiredness funny thing aside, it isn't really a BMW at all. It was developed by an italian car maker called Iso (hence the name Isetta). BMW bought the patents, improved it and built is as BMW Isetta.
I admire mat watson he is really good in reviewing cars
he do it for a living
Yea but thanks for the like
Really trying hard for that car wow heart huh
No i just said it and btw tjanks for the likes
Just a small point on the DeLorean spares ("good luck on getting any spares") - there's a US based company which I think is actually called DMC that bought up all the stock and even original equipment to make some of the panels and plastic moulds/parts, so you could in effect build a DeLorean from scratch - a bit like how you can buy almost a complete MG MGB from the heritage company in the UK.
Should’ve been spelt “Pontiac Fireo”
@@skkh5108 GTFO pls
@@skkh5108 I wish RUclips had a jail for you guys. So you can get arrested or get your account suspended for a certain duration.
@@anshulshah1219 shut up
Back in High School I lusted after the Ferrari kit for the Fiero. I wanted to don a Hawaiian shirt, grow (or glue on) a bushy moustache, and fly off in my Hughes 500 helicopter. Magnum P.I. was the pinnacle of sexy in the 80s and Pontiac brought it a step closer to us plebes.
@@Εωι you can shut up. Thank you. He was a spammer who was doing youtube ads and it looks like you were his mother 😂
that C3 looks cute!
We have the predecessor of this car, the DS3 cabrio, and holy shit
The roof is SO unreliable
It have seized itself one time and Citroën is asking 7500€ for changing the whole roof...but the mechanism is fine you just need to unseized it
Just because they don't grease rails!
I really, REALLY hate the G-Wiz... No wonder it’s actually my least favourite car in the world!
Im dissaponted even though i don't have one
Same as Hammond lol
I’d rather have a Prius
It's possible that the Trabant 601 is a bad car, but here in Hungary, they were extremely popular in the '70-80s. There were at least 4 of them in every street.😂 Nowadays, they have some cult as well 🙂
Wow I love still being awake when people on the other side of the world are posting during the day 😫😫
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@@skkh5108 go away stop spamming
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5:09 My grandpa and my dad had Trabants and they were the best cars they ever had
I’m sorry but the DeLorean is an absolute machine in gta 5
I agree☝️
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Versatile
some stupid game is not reality
Reality is better 😉
Reliant Robin be like: 👀
Well it’s nothing to do with the worst car. It had a point in existence and was a reliable car. Till idiots got their hands on one.
Yess, the Yugo isn't on the list
I have one it's ok.
I also have a Zastava
Shhh 🤫😉
I was looking to :D
I have a Fiat 127 and holy crap it's reliable and simple
Very very good car
But holy shit it rusts SO FAST
Well they did say worst cars not non running from new yard art
There is a giant warehouse in Texas FULL of spare DeLorean parts...
...a warehouse that hasn't been used full stop and won't be for the foreseeable future. Every time we have seen reports of "spare parts AVAILABLE" or "Production WILL RESTART NEXT YEAR" and nothing of actual substance has materialised. 2015: Failure, 2018: Failure, 2020: Failure.
@@DR3ADER1 uh, Delorean Texas sells parts and services cars all the time. Not sure what you're talking about. www.delorean.com/dmc-texas.htm
@@DR3ADER1 Yeah, for like almost 20 years now, they've been saying "Production will restart very shortly."
Wow, loads of actual false info in this one.
Before I see it. I assume all models by Land Rover/Range Rover take the top spots.
Ok let’s get this straight once and for all!
The trabant was an excellent and pioneering car! When it came out in the early sixties that 26hp was more than enough from a car that only weighed around 600kg thanks to being made from a revolutionary lightweight material. Let’s also not forget that it got that 26hp from a 600cc engine. A fiat 500 only had about 12 and the early minis of the time only made 34hp. The trabant also had the same layout as the mini being front engined and front wheel drive witch was very advanced for the time. It was also much more practical and didn’t rust so f**k everyone who thinks it wasn’t a charming and ingenious car.
I have a later 1.1 Trabant and I love it!
Making the body out of recycled material is not a minus - as the video may suggest. And I am sure the "dirty underwear" are washed and processed before becoming a Trabi. The major disadvantage was the lack of major development and improvements in the 30+ years it was produced. Which, btw is a political decision, not lack of engineers at Trabant.
@@schmoosmith Is the 1.1 a 2-stroke? And does it have the characteristic 2-stoke smell?
I understand that there was a camp tent model of the Trabant. (Tent folded out from the car for overnight camping space)
also some SAABs had smoking 2 stroke engines
@@todortodorov940 No, the 1.1 was a 4 stroke unit. They only fitted them for the last 18 months of production.
I really like the look of the Ford Mustang 2
Hey a 1978 Mustang King Cobra was good enough for a god to drive should tell you something!
The trabant sounds amazing!
1974 Mustang II with 2.3l 90hp engine had 0-100 km/h time 14.5s while strongest version of Yugo with 1.3l 67hp had 13.8s.
Hurts my heart to see the C3 Pluriel.
The Trabant was my dad's first car (in communist Romania, back in the 80s) and, tbh, it wasn't that bad. It had a motorbike engine and it was also very light, so it wasn't really a slouch (at least compared with those days Dacias). The engine surely made a rumble and sometimes you would blind those behind with blue smoke, but other than that it was quite okay. As for the bodywork, I recall it being made out of compressed carton, not "cotton".
Anyway, it reminds me of my childhood and some great drives around the country, so I'm both sorry and glad to see it on this list :).
You are wrong. There's documentary on RUclips about Trabant and how it was made. Body parts were made from cotton mixed with epoxy resin and then pressed to desired form.
The isetta is a goat in forza what you talking about?
Ikr
Max tuning makes it the most fun of all of them 😂
@@epicrock9541 the best car is the next generation PASSAT
The spongebob isetta 💪🏼
3:11, That Pontiac Fire (Fiero) looked like it had more ground clearance than a Land Cruiser 😳 😳 😳
That's a thing that car haulers do. They put solid pucks under the springs to boost the ride height so that they don't damage the undercarriage during loading and unloading. The person taking delivery of the vehicle (usually a dealer) will pretty much always have them removed.
Some Trabys were made from old newspaper, cardboard, and fibreglass resin.
but reliant was even worse
It was only made from compressed cotton waste and resin. That's what the DDR got from the Soviet Union to build a car, they've kept the valuable steel for themselves for mostly military purposes.
Suspected of drug trafficking. Are you gonna mention the rest of that story or what? Smh
Just watch the story "Framing John DeLorean"
Acquitted!!! Entrapment.
But still did it, most wouldn't of. He had a lot of previous too, Patent theft, Patent infringement, embezzlement....
Matt: 10 worst CARS All-Time
Also Matt: one stop comparison SITE
Great video! I do think the Yugo should've been on this list, but these were pretty fitting too, so I see why you didn't.
Bricklin SV-1: The Nickelback of Cars😏
The Isetta was a great car, I had two in the sixties, we had scooters in the summer and Isettas in the Winter. No-one ever got hurt in one, they would cruise at 50 topping out at 65 down a long hill. You could get 3 into them as long as one had his head out of the sunroof and his feet on the seat. Girls loved them because they were warmer, more private and errr, had room enough, nudge nudge. Defo a better pull than a scooter on a cold night. We took six of them from Bristol to Torquay for a week and had the time of our lives, no breakdowns and plenty of action. Mine did blow up a week later leaving engine bits all over the road but I still got a good px against my next scooter. So don’t badmouth the Isetta, it was a champ.
The fiero was a great car it was just a small engineering failure that can be fixed and its not impossible to fix it lol
fiero became greatly improved when the Chevrolet HO 660 V6 was put in it (same engine in the Pontiac 6000 STE)
6:26
Top gear: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
Instead of picking on the Mustang II, you could have just said every old sporty car model made in the US after 1973.
it wasn't just underpowered, it was ugly too
@James Ring The were cool. But they weren't what you would call fast today. I've always liked the looks of the white and blue Cobra on Charlie's Angeles. I'm sure it was a dog.
@James Ring I thought Smokey and the Bandit was the best movie ever until I saw Star Wars later that summer. What a great year to be a 9 year old.
@Carwow, a year ago you were close to 3M subscribers, you’re ALMOST at 5M subscribers now, can we hit the 5M mark by the end of 2020 - hope so, such a great channel. Keep up the great work from me here in Sydney Australia.
Matt I expect so much more from you. You had three mistakes on the first car. Back to the future was released in 1985 one year after the Delorean factory closed, parts are actually very easy to get since all the unused parts from production were purchased by an American company, and lastly Delorean was acquired on the drug charges when the courts ruled the government sting was entrapment (they approached him with the idea knowing he needed cash fast). Then you show a Fiero with a front fire when the engine is in the rear. Shame on you.
The marketing power of Back to Future didn't mean much for the DeLorean when the first film came out 3 years after the company went bust lol.
That being said the worst part of DeLorean is the reliability. I owned one for a few years and it stranded me 3 times, all for electrical issues.
5:17 yet for a Trabant 601 universal built after 1974 costs more than €30k now
Someone correct me if I m wrong but wasn't there a Trabbi with a 50 HP Polo engine?
I met someone in france a few years ago that drove all the way from Berlin pulling a caravan...🙆♂️
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"DMC DeLorean" -> DeLorean DMC12
It’s been realized in recent years that DMC 12 was the name of the pre-production car only. The make is DMC and the model is DeLorean.
Pinto is number one because Ford refused to do any thing about the fuel tank problem. It was too expensive to fix them , so the opted to pay the lawsuit intead
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Trabant looks actually really pretty
1:10 The PRV engine came in versions (presumably without U.S. emissions equipment) that produced up to 197 HP without turbocharging. I'm surprised that Delorean didn't make these available in the markets where such engines would have been legal. If they were trying to sell cars that met U.S. emissions standards in markets with looser requirement, it's no wonder they couldn't compete.
The PRV was not only of a low tune but, the contracted engines were of far lower quality, everything from block materials, piston spec, rods, heads to bearing, anything to save cost per unit bought in, often against the advice of Renault whom actually built the engines👍
"There is no way electric cars will ever take off if they're anything like this. How wrong was I?" Not wrong at all! Electric cars, today, are taking of because they're NOTHING like the G-Wiz.
Most people : look at you in the mustang 2.
Then : A focus RS passes you when drag racing.
You in the mustang 2 : Am I a joke to you?
Other people : yes.
Am I the only one to think of Ford Pinto for its exploding fuel tank?
not really..
When i was a small kid, I always thought that it is an accomplishment to make an electric car. And the car was REVAi ( G-Wiz )
And when I first saw Tesla in videos. My head jumped.
The Trabant is a very nice car 😂I love them, it's very funny little car
I remember as a young man growing up in the USA during the 1970's the Ford pintos as terrible cars. They also had a problem if rear ended in a crash the tended to explode.
Wow! The Reliant Robin and the Yugo GV didn't make the cut?
Because if you do research the Reliant robin isn’t bad at all.
You can’t call it out as the worst if it’s the 2nd most successful fibreglass car on the planet
The Isetta did very well, given its task (small, cheap, surprisingly sizeable and more comfortable than a motorbike). you basically only state the small, slow car was slow and didnt have a crumple zone (which no car had back then).
Honestly, it's an interesting video 👍 Good job by carwow.
We need more of these top 10!!
We need a running race Mat vs Yianni
Jo and Sally as well!
The Mustang II was actually the car that saved the Mustang brand.
Other pony cars died at the time, but the Mustang sold better than ever.
The subtitles at 11:50
Mercedes-Benz A-klasse (W168, 1997). Flipping over when doing evasive manoeuvre to avoid hitting something, like the "Elk-test". MB First denied this was the case, but did issue a recalling of all units sold to date (2,600) and suspending sales for three months until the problem was solved by adding electronic stability control and modifying the suspension.
Wrong
@@sylvaind.6786 fact
@@JoriDiculous not at all. Name a car with 1 wheel different to the other 3 that is able to perform the elk test successfully.
@@sylvaind.6786 all of them. that's why they have the test.
@@JoriDiculous wrong again.
you get upset about oldtimers that they have little horspower??? Realy?
considering you can get some cars from the 80s-90s what have 100+ hp
so... yh
Nowadays we got plenty of 700 - 1000 hp cars.
So i guess your 200 hp car is considered very bad then?
Facts about the DeLorean are incomplete by miles.
The engine was used in the Renault alpine and won races, emission demands made it slow.
Drugs had something to do with the car?
For a car developed in 18 months and built by people that never had built cars before it was not to bad.
And everybody wants one!!!
Living the dream 💪
I think he was using a bit of 'artistic license' here, but you're right about the V6, it was one of those engines (a bit like the old Buick based Rover V8) that was used in a multitude of different cars.
Commonly referred to as the 'Douvrin' engine, it was a joint venture between Peugeot, Renault and Volvo, so it was also used in such 'classics' as the Renault 25, various large Peugeot/Citroens of the period and as you say also made it into the later Alpine models such as the GTA/A610. It came in a few different configurations which included SOHC & DOHC multi-valve versions. The same goes for the gearbox too, which IIRC was also the same one used in the non-V8 Lotus Esprit.
On the drugs thing, it gets a bit exaggerated, but it did contribute to the demise of the company. It came about when John DeLorean was arrested as part of an FBI sting operation where he was accused of being involved in a dodgy deal which IIRC involved some sort of money laundering. The British gov't had invested in the company as part of a job creation program for Northern Ireland so, as Mat said, naturally when they realised they weren't going to get their money back they went after the assets.
John DeLorean himself had been an important senior figure in the US car industry up to that point, but decided he wanted to start his own company, then got the tax breaks and funding to encourage him to establish operations in Northern Ireland.
The yugo is definitely the worst car ever
Have you owned one?
Not that bad
@@BokiXI just some child that watches one youtube video then thinks its the worst
@@BokiXI I haven't owned one but been in many,can say it's uncomfortable af and understeers like crazy
@@Luckyjo21 well ok I guess,do you think that everyone should own a car to have a opinion on it?? I am sorry if it's your favourite car and I hurt your feelings
Fun fact. During the 80s when the dmc factory was in the north of Ireland they had like 70 percent of people in the local housing estates working there as the British government actually paid delorean to build a factory there as the area had no other businesses for people to get employed
I'm so glad that you've put the DMC DeLorean into this list. I think it's a bloody awful car in both style and make.
A hotchpotch of unreliability and mostly built from the reject parts bin from the extinct British Leyland. Add to that, it was also built by people who had absolutely zero mechanical knowledge.
I like how the doors are falcon styled though. Like the Tesla Model X.
it was developed with the help of Lotus, and these guys have mechanical knowledge
@@vladvulcan - No denying that. But it was still built with ex British Leyland parts which negates any of the quality that Lotus put into the car.
@@thezanzibarbarian5729, I haven't heard of it. John DeLorean was a man from GM, and the engine was from PRV, so... what are British Leyland parts are you talking about?
@@vladvulcan Engine was from Peugeot. The rest of the running gear, suspension, brakes et al, was BL rubbish (I'm no mechanic!). So was the switchgear and wiring looms et al.
So it might have had the Lotus input, but it was replaced by BL rubbish to make it cheaper to build.
Plus those that built it were, let's be nice to them, totally clueless. Give them a nut and bolt and they'd look for a screwdriver to put them together :-))...
I'd rather drive most of these flawed contraptions than a small crossover
46 of you can’t be first
Mat you need to dragrace the Pagani Huayra, the Koenigsegg Agera, Lamborghini Adventador SVJ and the Ferrari Laferrari Apuerta
Fun Fact: the famous feature of the DeLorean in Back to the Future was three years after the company's bankruptcy.
And the reason they decided to use the DeLorean as the time machine was mainly because nobody knew this car, so they could sell it as Doc's own backyard creation. (Plus it did look futuristic).
Thus, even the one thing that makes the DeLorean famous and popular among collectors is thanks to it being a terrible car
Thank you for not mentioning the ford edsel, I hate when people say it was a bad car. My grandpa has one and it is a really durable and solid car despite not being popular
Range rovers should be all the 10 on this list!
why
Mat, please review Aston Martin cygnet!
It even got leather on the steering wheel!
I really liked it but you said it looks ugly but it doesn't look that much ugly as you said.
Well if you want to review it than do it. Merry Christmas! Thanks.
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Me: So not Carwow?
Awesome video!
DRAG RACE:Jetta GLI vs Honda Acord. Mat vs Alex
My old man had a bubble car. Drove from Portsmouth to Hamilton in Scotland when I was being born. Took him 30 hours straight.
He upgraded to a reliant robin.......only at 2nd car on Matt's list so will await to see if the upgrade was worse.
Think he had two Reliants.......in those days they were all he could afford.
Wow! Almost all of the facts about the Delorean was wrong or half wrong.
- Stainless steel is true.
- BTTF came out AFTER DMC went bankrupt. It had no marketing value to the car's sales.
- 130 HP is true, however it is important to mention, that most sports car in the era had 110-170 hp. The Delorean was not the fastest for sure, but it was in the middle.
- The Delorean's maximum speed is about 140 mph, which is 200 km/h. I don't know how you got the 109. I say again, not the fastest, but far from the worst.
- Build quality is half true. This 200 hours number is only true to the first few hundred cars, maybe few thousands, those quality was really far from perfect. After about VIN 3000-4000 serious quality improvement happened.
- The factory inventory is still available, new parts are even made. For me, it is only two days to buy spare parts and wait them to arrive. Two days!!! What are you talking about?
- Yes, John Delorean was arrested, but he was acquitted, because of entrapment. Quite an important fact, if you ask me.
And I just saw the first part, so I can imagine the rest. So sorry, but not the Delorean was rubbish, but this video.
That Isetta bubble car looks like it’s constantly reversing when it’s in motion 😂
I love deloreans will never agree with you on thaat one
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I bet you love Cindy Crawford as well..........that makes two chassis you are unlikely to ride.
9:15 it’s Pinto based, hence why people didn’t like it, but if it’s good enough for John Wick and Bullit, it’s good enough for me
I like the fact that Alfas aren't on this list 😂
Btw I love them 😍
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Or Lancias, except maybe the Y10.