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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3124761, member: 76194&quot;]We&#039;ve all been there. The newer generations will never know what it is to drive a truly awful car, as even the worse cars today are nowhere near as bad as some of the stuff we got to experience. </p><p><br /></p><p>My first car was a Geo Metro. At 1 Liter, 50 horsepower,&nbsp; the engines for those cars were probably repurposed lawnmower engines. The fit and finish was so poor that the body panels probably started to fall apart before the car ever left the factory. If you managed to get the car above 50MPH (depending on whether you had a light or heavy breakfast that morning), the thing shook like it wanted to come apart and the noise was almost deathening. The body panels fit so poorly that it is a miracle the whole thing didn&#039;t come apart at highway speeds. The 12 inch wheels were so thin that there was a real concern they could get stuck in a pothole. </p><p><br /></p><p>Heck, one day I was making a U-Turn and my front passenger wheel actually came off and continued to travel on its own until it hit a traffic sign on the side of the road. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Driving that car you knew your knees were the accident crumple zones for the car, and side impact protection probably doubled when I was wearing a thick jacket. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;Anyway, the end came swift when in 2004 it caught fire and burned down on the emergency lane at the Florida Turnpike, somewhere north of Fort Lauderdale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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