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No one all too big and heavy for safe pursuit. More hp.than handling, dangerous as hell.over 100mph

yeah i dont think they can compete with European cars here. agreed the chrylers are too round. concorde is better than lhs. i like the park ave and bonneville more that the chrylers for sure.

daytona is nice. best car on list. avenger is also good. looks better than the 2nd gen imo spirit is generic looking but okay for what it is as a budget family car. the newer monoco doesnt resemble the beast it was before. boring design. looks a lot like a cheap Renault which is never good. dynasty is okay as a budget family car for the period. intrepid is too round. looks weird. shadow is okay for a budget car. the shelby looks good though tbh.

regal looks generic. like you said better alternatives. would pick the a4 or bmw/mercedes. old school regal is nice but id take the cutlass. that mitsubishi gallant looks pretty cool. id maybe buy 1 for a project. at-least its kinda unique. dont like ultimas. the styling just doesnt appear to me. biased but regardless prefer honda over nissan for that segment. fusion is similar to the first car on the list. generic. doesnt offer anything special and looks mediocre. camry and accord are better. g6 looks ugly. wouldnt buy it. worst car on the list. i want that bonneville gxp though

the bronco shows small signs of tipping even in light cornering in this video lol.

australia was very popular with lpg. its still offered here to this day, though declining popularity.

a school bus with a cummins isc 280 hp does 0-60 in about 22 seconds

gimme that jag wagon

Next: Luxoboats, econoboxes and hot hatches

They were only slow because they looked so good and wanted everyone to get a good look.

I once owned a 1988 Ford Tempo GL which turned out to be a total lemon. FORD-Fix Or Repair Daily

America had the some of the most iconic cars in the 60s and 70s, there would ever be. Then, the 80s came along and it was like Rulers were discovered.

First car t1000 4 speed manual. Fun little car. Next was a 4 door auto chevette.... Slow would be a compliment.

Toyota Tercel wagon and VW Fox for the win

I live in England and i adore these huge American cars. If i won the lottery i wouldn't bother with McLarens and Porsches, i'd just have all of these.

I've seen exactly one 2008 SRT8 Magnum in person. an 08 one is, like, a super unicorn car.

Its a rather interesting point to note, American car manufacturers built big V8 engines and put them in land yachts which in turn meant they may as well have used a european diesel engine as the performance output would be the same. The most important aspect of drivability went comoletely out the window,power to weight ratio. On the other side of the pond Europeans were building smaller cars,with smaller engines the only correction needed was to inteoduce more power .

1:35 those seats look so comfy 😌

There used to be someone in my town that owned a little red express

The beretta looks fucking sick 0-0 imagine LS swapping that thing

The Aerostar was badass!!

Honestly, I got more out of what you don’t know than what you do know. No disrespect, but it is interesting to me the things that you simply do not know because I suppose you were not there. Keep going though!

Forgot one more Saab: 2006+ 9-3 Wagon

Wow….NO wagons?

The Bronco II was awesome and people still go nuts over them and a guy i know bought a new Tempo with a diesel engine in 1984 ish, im sure he still regrets it LOL But good try at making vintage car videos, you werent around back then so all you have is statistics

IMPERIAL the ultimate luxury car.

el pontiac lemans parecia mas un daewoo

No one in their sane mind would own a Mirage for speeding purposes. It's a supermini car meant for point A to point B daily commutes and cheaper gas tank fill-ups for penny-pinching folks. Nothing much can be done about Mirage's CVT and sloth-like acceleration other than trying to blip the gas pedal many times to simulate an "automatic kickdown switch" effect, and gradually release and gently press the gas pedal to slowly force the Mirage to accelerate. The CVT is not like the old torque converter automatic where you can straight away press the gas pedal to the floor to get that much needed downshifting and acceleration to overtake.

I have a immaculate W124 Mercedes 300D with a whooping 107 BHP from its inline 6cyl diesel engine, it’s slow but I love its comfort

the imperial says 350 hp

Gran trabajo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻, nuevo subscriptor 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. Saludos desde Madrid, España, donde los coches no tienen nada que ver 😂😂😂.

El Ford Bronco II tuvo exactamente el mismo problema que tendría años después el primer Mercedes clase A: facilidad para volcarse por un centro de gravedad alto. Mercedes lo resolvió modificando la suspensión y añadiendo control de estabilidad, algo sólo disponible en vehiculos de gama superior. The Ford Bronco II had exactly the same problem that the first Mercedes A class would have years later: ease of overturning due to a high center of gravity. Mercedes solved it by modifying the suspension and adding stability control, something only available in higher-end vehicles.

My 1st car was a 1978 Pontiac grand prix not a speedy car but the greatest ever. They really knew how to make a great dependable car back then ❤

I think the oil embargo shattered the psychology of the American consumers enough to where they would purchase these piles of crap. Your car didn’t feel slow because everybody else’s car was just as slow. Someday, I would like to see a video on Chrysler K cars, especially a beige one. They had to be the lowest of the low point in American automotive history, and nobody talks about it. The guy who took credit for it was on the cover of Time magazine, if you could believe that .

Ford doesn't make the ThunderBird or Crown Victoria, but still makes the Festiva. wtf?

Granted every manufacturer was in serious competition and striving to make much better cars in the 1990's. And car and trucks achieved a level of smart safety features, good engines, good chassis, and then stoppoed. We haven't seen any true improvements in gas mileage since the 1990's and fuel injection and OBD II, airbags, ABS. Some did make some "decent" traction control units, most car companies didn't. And still don't. We reached a level of car in the 1990's that has not been surpassed 30 years later. Certainly no improvement in Gas Mileage. Certainly, not enough to matter. Cars should easily be getting 50-70 MPG with the cars we drive today. It's not the engine, it's how the fuel is being introduced. It should be a vapor, not liquid.

Ford should have never gotten rid of the Thunderbird nor the Crown Victoria. And they shouldn't change anything once perfected. You had two nearly perfect cars with comfort and reliability. Drank a little gas, but they just didn't break down. Good Solid Cars. You spent years making it a little bit better, a little bit better. And reach a point where you have a great car. Why get rid of it? If you have vehicles noted for reliability, they will sell. The Japanese makers don't dump their winning models for something that is "less". Ford was making better cars and trucks in the 1990's like every brand did compared to today. Who cares how great a car is if nobody can afford to buy it? Car Price$ have gotten just plain stupid.

The whole small diesel thing was pretty much a joke. These engines were made with international markets in mind. This is primarily because outside of the US, worldwide diesel is substantially cheaper than gasoline. Also most countries have a very old or undeveloped road network and acceleration means very little. These were always a bad fit for the US with high speed interstates and highways. Yes they had better fuel economy but when gas engines became more efficient with modern computers and cylinder heads there wasnt a need for these diesel band aids anymore.

Most of these old diesels are NA, so i wonder what power/performance could possibly be gotten out of them with the help of our good old snail friend 🤔

My wife fell in love with the color & bought a used '85 Buick Century with a 4 cylinder 2.5. The absolute slowest most dangerous car to try to merge on a freeway vehicle we ever owned. We had the car for a year & finally sold it. Another slug was an '83 Eldorado with the 4100 HT V8 that I owned for 4 weeks. It was absolutely gorgeous, the same color combo as in the movie Casino, triple silver but it was very slow. Reminded me of some high school dates when I was a teenager, nice to look at & that's about it. Couldn't wait to get rid of the Caddy. Yet one of the quickest cars I owned was an '85 Riv T-type with the Grand National 3.8 Turbo. What a sleeper.

I got my license in 1978 and my first car was a 4-door 1969 Chrysler Newport. Bought it from an elderly lady for $250. Ran like a clock and drove like a bus. Could fit 4 of my buddies across the back seat with leg room to spare. The good 'ol days.

Good video for learn about the options and special made cars from the 70s , wow what a luxury is in that cars.

My mom had a diesel Tempo she drove from 87-97. It was slow, criminally slow… but with the way my mom drove that thing, I can confirm it was TOUGH.

a friend had the mercury lx

I get a kick from all those videos from young you tubers making videos about cars from an era before their time.

2 gen were awesome

In Canada we had the Chevrolet Optra. It was basically a Daewoo but rebadged as Chevy.

I remember the Chevy LUV truck, and at least where I lived (Detroit area) nobody called it the L-U-V. It was the "Chevy Love." My dad always drove an Olds Delta 88 as a "company car," but while it wasn't fast, the V8 had enough power to tow our boat. I had a friend in college who had a Chevy Chevette, and we called it the "Shit-vette," and my roommate had an early 80s Ford Escort. Not only was it slow, it felt like it would fall apart at any moment and the shifter was like a noodle. Finally, I had a 1984 Chrysler Laser, the twin of the Dodge Daytona. It wasn't the turbo, and it wasn't fast (think it had like 99hp), but it was fun to drive. Good job on the video.

my grandparents had a 1993 Skylark, and the car stayed in the family for another 30 years or so before it was retired, definitely got their moneys worth out of it, drove across canada dozens of times.

Wish I could get my hands on a Mercedes AMG wagon. Imagine the look on a persons face when they got beat by a station wagon. 😆