Question: Notoriously Unreliable Cars That Were Bulletproof For You?

For every Junkyard Find of, say, a Malaise Era bomb that fired several torpedoes into the already leaky hull of a once-great car company, there will be at least one reader who writes a comment that goes something like "I bought one of these cars new, and it went 300,000 trouble-free miles on logging roads in Trinity County. This car's bad image was undeserved, folks!" Just as it's possible to have fun with a rented Corolla (just kidding, there is no way to have fun of any sort in a rented Corolla), it's possible for a first-gen Excel or Sterling 827 to survive like a Slant-Six Valiant sedan. The Volkwsagen Type 4. The Chevy Vega. Just about any Mitsubishi product built between the A6M Zero and, like, five years ago. Many of us have had such an odds-beating car (I'd like to say that my Peugeot 504 held together like an Accord, but such was nowhere near the case). So, let's hear those stories! Set the record straight! Feel free to add tirades about what a bad rap the (Mazda RX-2, Ford EXP, Fiat 128, Jaguar XJ-S) got. from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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