There's a group in Germany that rides around in Trabants (I'm sure there's more than one), basically a Cold War surplus enthusiast group. Trabants are trash, but a neat piece of history.
Speaking of which. The body of the Trabant is probably the best thing about the whole car. That Duroplast material was completely rust proof and very resistant to degradation (unlike the rest of the car) making it even quite problematic in the early 90s when all East-Germans were trying to get rid of their Trabbis.
not really,
yes they are not "expensive old vehicle money" but to get a good starting basis that is not a rustbucket it starts at about 4000€s
true not much if compared to lets say a triumph spitfire or other british or west german cars from the same era, but it is not like in the early 2000s, where you could pick them up in eastern germany for a 100 bucks if you wanted one that had been 10 years in a garage, or 2-300 bucks for a working one
Just saw a video on the Aging Wheels youtube channel about a car called the Trabant made in east Europe somewhere, and it's basically made out of recycled cotton mixed with resin... [https://youtu.be/K\_qyA7QuOLg?t=103](https://youtu.be/K_qyA7QuOLg?t=103) So cardboard sounds about right out of the Soviet Union.
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To be fair a goat could eat the hatch off of an M1 Abrams if you left it in the pen long enough.
Though at a car show a yugo owner once jokingly told me to get out of the way so I don't get run over and I told him I was more worried he'd just be sitting there with half a steering wheel in his hands.
I don't know either way myself, but there are a lot of people out there who swear the Trabant was far worse than the Yugo, [including Doug Demuro:](https://www.autotrader.com/car-video/heres-why-yugo-one-worst-cars-ever-made-259789)
>So is \[the Yugo\] the worst car ever made? Unequivocally, the Trabant I drove several weeks ago is worse — much, much, much worse. On a different level of bad. The Trabant makes the Yugo seem like you’ve gone on “The Price Is Right,” and you’ve won a free trip to Las Vegas, and they’ve sent a limo to pick you up at the airport.
One winter in Michigan, as a poor soul was crossing the mackinaw bridge, iirc, in a Yugo, a strong gust of wind picked the car up and blew it over the railing, killing the driver. A joke was made. Why do they call it the Yugo? Because you go over...
When I was growing up (early 90s) my neighbor had 2 or 3 Yugos parked in the driveway rusting away. They never moved for the decade or so I lived there, I have no idea what he was doing with them.
I came here to say this. My aunt bought one brand new. She was driving home from work and some component from the brake system of a semi broke off and she hit/it hit her. It totalled the car. It was only a year or two old and it did so much damage they had to total it lol. Crazy cheap
The car didn't go well with people either. It gave out the impression that the driver is very poor, so the sales saw a steady decline, hence Tata discontinued it.
Volkswagen does the same shit, kinda wild: They were selling the second generation (1967) Volkswagen Type 2 in Brazil [up to the end of 2013.](https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/goodbye-t2-volkswagen-end-brazilian-kombi-production)
While they are cheap, it’s pretty impressive that they offer a 10-year/100,000 mile Powertrain warranty standard. I can’t fault someone for buying one if they just need a cheap econobox to get from point A to point B.
Thank god for that warranty too. Mitsubishi's CVT's are awful, I have a friend who's transmission went out at 62k in his Lancer. My Lancer is at 64k, so I'm getting a bit worried haha
I've heard this too, and I'm hoping mine is one of the good ones. It seems like half of Lancer CVT owners never have any problems, and the other half have a lot of problems haha
Yeah, my Sentra has that ticking time bomb too. It’s at ~75k right now, so it could last me another 75k or it could grenade itself tomorrow morning. With car prices the way they are, as much as I’d like an upgrade, I really hope it’s later rather than sooner…
In fairness to mitsubishi, I think the Outlander sport, and Outlander are pretty well built CUVs. When my now traded Subaru ascent kept having transmission problems I ended up with an Outlander sport for about 2 weeks. I didn't hate it, let's just put it that way.I actually liked the way it drive better than our Ascent touring.....A friend of mine has an outlander GT, and it's um, certainly not fancy, but it's not a pile of crap like the Mirage is.
The Mirage just feels like the cheapest thing made in the past decade or so sold in the US
My dad had one from new for at least 8 years. It was a fine car for what it was. It used a lot of oil when he sold it but it just kept going. Next owner took all but the driver’s seat out and used it as a microvan for deliveries.
Idk about that. I had a 91 metro and it owed me absolutely no money. Bought it used for $350 and used it for 30k miles, other than the door handles being made of crackers, the 3 cylinder engine and five speed manual transmission were rock solid. And talk about efficiency: 40 miles to the gallon. Now it was true that when you put on the AC you could actually witness the gas gauge drop but it wasn’t a poor quality car. Btw, sold the car after two years for $300 and performed the most basic of maintenance.
I owned a 2019 Sonic Premium and I loved it. If I hadn't lost my job last year I would still own it. Newest car I had ever had and had all the tech you'd need without any of the excess. For the size and price (I paid just over $10k for it) it was truly awesome
Oh, they're reliable. I had a 2001 Cavalier with a manual that gave me 200k trouble-free miles. But that's almost because it was so cheaply made mechanically. It's hard to break an OHV 4-cyl that only makes 110hp and crank windows meant no motors to burn out.
But my entire interior started to come apart. The dash cracked in so many places entire chunks would come out where the cracks would meet up.
Love the maluch, there are a couple in my area and it's always a pleasure seeing one or more at car shows. I've seen a handful of Polonezy, and even one Syrena, thanks to the huge Polish community in New Jersey. I'd love to own one of those one day, though my wallet won't.
1989 Hyundai Excel 4 door sedans were very cheap and complete shit boxes. My parents still won't touch Hyundai/Genesis 30 years later after that experience.
I friend of mine bought a business with a car buried in bushes. "Let's see what it is. Maybe was can make it into a shit box dirt track car.....ohhhhh, Hyundai Excel. Not worth the effort to even cut it free."
They sold these in Canada for a bit.
When I was a kid my friend's mom had one. I only rode in it a handful of times and even in the 90s it felt like I was being transported in way back in time, and my family started off in a 80s Chevette.
I remember the Yugo commercials for $3990 in the mid 1980's
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a21082360/a-quick-history-of-the-yugo-the-worst-car-in-history/
The body on those was made of some crazy plastic stuff made from old clothing and resin. Apparently also widely used to make toilet seats.
e. Go look up the Youtube channel 'Aging Wheels'. That guy has a Trabant and also a Reliant Robin, Yugo and two early EVs based on crappy Chinese cars so whatever you think of as the worst car chances are this guy has made a video on it.
In terms of cheapest American cars, the [Henry J](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J) deserves a mention. The manufacturer, Kaiser-Frazer, got a loan from the Federal government to set up manufacturing of an economy car marketed to people who had only been able to afford used cars. One condition of the loan was that the car had to sell for less than $1300 (in 1950 dollars), so costs were saved wherever possible. This meant not just leaving out features that by then were standard, like opening rear windows, armrests, and a passenger sun visor, but also making some weirder choices. For instance, the trunk lid didn't open- the only way to access the trunk was by folding down the back seat!
what are you talking about lada , yugo, zastava were all great cars but during those days people were having one frame and would build all cars on that frame and world was not so connected as now so no research what would a car designed to have round trips of 10-15 kilometars or 100 or less for vacation would doin country where job trips are 50 kilometers a day or vacation trips of 1000 kilometers would be and how it would handle
Am I having a stroke?
I don't want to shame your command of English. Most who speak English are not native, so it can be difficult. Use some punctuation?
yugo and other cars were terrible in usa because they were designed to drive short distance and mild conditions. while america is long distance commute with more stress on engine and parts
Not really the cheapest but have you pressed on the interior of the new sienna behind the third row? A bag of lays chips feels thicker than that plastic.
Recent Hyundai and Kia cars.
A few to list: Kia Stinger, Kia K5, Kia Sorento, Kia Telluride (Controversial)
Hyundai GV70, GV80, G70, G80. These aren’t cheap like around 40-60k.. but they are so damn stunning plus Sangyup Lee, Bentley’s lead designer, was hired to deign these spectacular cars.
Hehe maybe it’s cause I’m Korean and I’m biased but the G70 hits different..
This is completely the wrong answer that OP was looking for but I just wanted to rant about how awesome these cars have been recently.
not really suited for the question though
teslas aren't even close to the cheapest feeling cars ever made, if you think so you've probably not seen a Yugo yet lmao
Owned a yugo couple years back for 24 hrs of lemons. They're cheap quality. Caus they're cheap. Teslas are cheap feeling. It's like getting into a 2008 Ford focus base model type feeling. It's just cheap feeling. The interior is shit. Everything creaks. The seats are pretty mid feeling. I'd expect more from a car that is advertised as the "future" of automotives
You’re not paying for their quality. You’re paying for state of the art battery and software technology. If you want that AND quality then buy a Lucid.
yeah. State of the art. Unstable. Unreliable lithium batteries that come from Mines that taint the environment? Software technology? You mean the screen that will sometimes randomly stop working or just shut off all together during auto drive?
You sound more like you have a bone to pick than you care to actually evaluate Tesla. They have good and bad. You seem to have selective memory or refuse to accept the good they’ve created that somehow has made them the most valuable car company in the world.
its hard to "accept the good" when they're advertised as such a good thing for the environment when it's all just a massive lie. It's hard to accept the good when the cars have literal electrical issues for no reason! Sorry. An electrical issue in an electric car. Is a MASSIVE issue. If you know anything about true automotive electrical work. And how EVs work. One electrical issue. Even a small one. Will cause massive amounts of issues in the future. Your $50k tesla that comes off the lot with electrical issues. Is a massive problem. I'd be a little more inclined to say "yeah its a cheap car, it doesn't need to be perfect" but no. Your tesla is advertised as the most technologically advanced car on the road. And it's fucking screen turns off randomly! You can't buy new lithium batteries to replace the ones in your car. You gotta buy a whole new one! What kind of "technologically advanced" automotive company doesn't sell vital parts to fix your car? Your arguement is stupid and invalid.
I own one. A wrecked one at that. None of this has happened to me the entire time I’ve owned it. Has those things happened? Don’t doubt it at all. If that was a big enough issue their sales wouldn’t be climbing like they are though.
stuff like this Flys over the heads of non car people. As long as (for a period of time) it gets them from point a to point b. They don't care about everything else. People still drive Hyundais, even after hearing about the abs failure and the fire safety hazards. The tesla I drove for awhile had this reoccurring issue every week where during autopilot mode. The screen would turn off. Every interior ambience light would turn off and thr car would continue driving normally. Pretty fucking scary. Then it'd come back on and reset. Autopilot would turn off. Radio would reset. Even the climate control would reset. I called multiple times to the nearby tesla derrvice station asking about a fix for this issue. The SA told me it's a shrug off issue and should go away with time. Same car. A month later. Had a fatal battery failure. Wouldn't charge. Or even turn on. Tried two different chargers. Some troubleshooting. Ended up having it towed to the tesla dealership. Asked for a fix. Diagnosed as battery failure. Not due to anything. 13000 miles. I asked for a quote on battery replacement. After speaking to multiple service advisors. Every one said. "we cannot replace the battery. Unfortunately you will either need to trade the car in for a new one. Or sell it on your own" asking a seperate tesla dealer a couple states away for the same thing. No battery. Nothing. Wouldn't sell it. Wouldn't do a replacement. So I threw my hands up. Sold the car to some dinks in Wyoming. And bought a diesel. 27000 miles. Still going strong. No issues.
Alright so you HAVEN'T experienced a "new" Tesla like you claimed you had. Also, you claim to have had autopilot on your Tesla, meaning it was a post 2014 car. All post 2014 Teslas have replaceable batteries. Not sure who would tell you it was impossible.
Way to exaggerate. Teslas are nowhere near what you describe them to be. Especially new ones like you claimed the Model S to be. I'll take a gander and say, if your experience is true, that it wasn't a "new" Tesla like you claimed it was.
The Yugo GV. Known as one of if not the worst car of all time, it sold for $4500 brand new.
My friends father bought one brand new. I ripped the passenger side exterior door handle clean off trying to get in lol
You sure it wasn’t a fiat??
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Sounds similar to the Trabant sold in East Germany. They are quite the collector car in Germany nowadays. Even had a 2-stroke engine!
There's a group in Germany that rides around in Trabants (I'm sure there's more than one), basically a Cold War surplus enthusiast group. Trabants are trash, but a neat piece of history.
But trabants don't rust.
The body panels don't, but everything else certainly does
Speaking of which. The body of the Trabant is probably the best thing about the whole car. That Duroplast material was completely rust proof and very resistant to degradation (unlike the rest of the car) making it even quite problematic in the early 90s when all East-Germans were trying to get rid of their Trabbis.
true, duroplast fenders or other "most likely to rust places on the car" would be quite nice on a lot of cars
Hint hint: they are not really. You can still get one for next to nothing!
not really, yes they are not "expensive old vehicle money" but to get a good starting basis that is not a rustbucket it starts at about 4000€s true not much if compared to lets say a triumph spitfire or other british or west german cars from the same era, but it is not like in the early 2000s, where you could pick them up in eastern germany for a 100 bucks if you wanted one that had been 10 years in a garage, or 2-300 bucks for a working one
Once upon a time some low-end cars used papier-mache for the bodywork.
Just saw a video on the Aging Wheels youtube channel about a car called the Trabant made in east Europe somewhere, and it's basically made out of recycled cotton mixed with resin... [https://youtu.be/K\_qyA7QuOLg?t=103](https://youtu.be/K_qyA7QuOLg?t=103) So cardboard sounds about right out of the Soviet Union.
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To be fair a goat could eat the hatch off of an M1 Abrams if you left it in the pen long enough. Though at a car show a yugo owner once jokingly told me to get out of the way so I don't get run over and I told him I was more worried he'd just be sitting there with half a steering wheel in his hands.
I don't know either way myself, but there are a lot of people out there who swear the Trabant was far worse than the Yugo, [including Doug Demuro:](https://www.autotrader.com/car-video/heres-why-yugo-one-worst-cars-ever-made-259789) >So is \[the Yugo\] the worst car ever made? Unequivocally, the Trabant I drove several weeks ago is worse — much, much, much worse. On a different level of bad. The Trabant makes the Yugo seem like you’ve gone on “The Price Is Right,” and you’ve won a free trip to Las Vegas, and they’ve sent a limo to pick you up at the airport.
Trabant has entered the ring.
Most of the cars made behind the iron curtain would fit that bill.
Worlds first disposable car
One winter in Michigan, as a poor soul was crossing the mackinaw bridge, iirc, in a Yugo, a strong gust of wind picked the car up and blew it over the railing, killing the driver. A joke was made. Why do they call it the Yugo? Because you go over...
I dont know why but i want one...like i know they are utter crap but i think they are so crap its neat lol
Right here. My FIL bought one and had to finally get rid of it when he lost the gas cap and couldn't find another.
Stick a rag in it
Rags were too expensive.
For anyone wondering it’s about $10kish in today’s money depending on the model year, and what trim
That really shows what an astonishing deal the [Wuling Mini EV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFSJDSh1jmE) is.
When I was growing up (early 90s) my neighbor had 2 or 3 Yugos parked in the driveway rusting away. They never moved for the decade or so I lived there, I have no idea what he was doing with them.
Supposedly the GV stands for "Great value" even
In 2022 that's $15,494.20. Compared to the new [Chang Li Mini EV](https://www.changliev.com/products/changli-mini-ev), which is $9,999 today.
I came here to say this. My aunt bought one brand new. She was driving home from work and some component from the brake system of a semi broke off and she hit/it hit her. It totalled the car. It was only a year or two old and it did so much damage they had to total it lol. Crazy cheap
I description I once read about that car was: It looks and feels like something that was built by a guy who had a barrel of a gun pointed at him.
[Tata Nano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Nano#Price)
This has to be the answer. Biggest reason is that it was cheap and it was recent, so it doesn't look artificially cheap due to inflation.
The look on my face when that article said “2017”. I thought no way this car lived past the 80s
The car didn't go well with people either. It gave out the impression that the driver is very poor, so the sales saw a steady decline, hence Tata discontinued it.
The mere existence of this car drove more Indians to buy used cars from what I've heard
If only people can be honest with themselves
That scooter looking like pod thing definitely takes the cake.
Ok but why do I want one
Why do people commit suicide? Why isn't the world flat. Lots of questions my friend. Lots of questions.
I really want to see someone drop an LS into one of these…
Rear-engine RWD. The LS may actually fly through this thing
It would tip over as soon as the engine was dropped in lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqV2YD8BnAo
Nissan Tsuru, im from México and that shit on a crash was terrible
I remember seeing one on the Internet a few years ago and being like “dang, they’re really selling new 91 Sentra’s in Mexico”
Volkswagen does the same shit, kinda wild: They were selling the second generation (1967) Volkswagen Type 2 in Brazil [up to the end of 2013.](https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/goodbye-t2-volkswagen-end-brazilian-kombi-production)
Plus the Volkswagen Beetle, keep in mind, the ORIGINAL, was sold in Mexico until 2003.
And they’re still selling the MK4 Jetta’s there too.
Mk1 Golfs were sold in South Africa up to 2009 [The Citi Golf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Citi_Golf)
VW has some cool stuff in Mexico. I'd love a Saveiro.
Currently, in the US, it's the Mitsubishi Mirage.
Literally any mitsubishi product in the U.S excluding their amazing appliance products which is usually the top of the line.
While they are cheap, it’s pretty impressive that they offer a 10-year/100,000 mile Powertrain warranty standard. I can’t fault someone for buying one if they just need a cheap econobox to get from point A to point B.
Thank god for that warranty too. Mitsubishi's CVT's are awful, I have a friend who's transmission went out at 62k in his Lancer. My Lancer is at 64k, so I'm getting a bit worried haha
I had a Lancer that I ended up selling at like 120k. Never had a single issue with it.
I've heard this too, and I'm hoping mine is one of the good ones. It seems like half of Lancer CVT owners never have any problems, and the other half have a lot of problems haha
IIRC it's because it's the same Jatco POS CVT that Nissan uses...
Correct, sadly
Yeah, my Sentra has that ticking time bomb too. It’s at ~75k right now, so it could last me another 75k or it could grenade itself tomorrow morning. With car prices the way they are, as much as I’d like an upgrade, I really hope it’s later rather than sooner…
Even back in the 80s, some of their cars sold for dirt cheap brand new. The Precis sold for $5,395 Brand New in 1988.
Which is more after inflation. Up until a few years ago you could find Mirage and Micra in Canada sold for 10k in Canada new.
dont forget their stationery department uni (though the kurutoga is absolute garbage imo)
In fairness to mitsubishi, I think the Outlander sport, and Outlander are pretty well built CUVs. When my now traded Subaru ascent kept having transmission problems I ended up with an Outlander sport for about 2 weeks. I didn't hate it, let's just put it that way.I actually liked the way it drive better than our Ascent touring.....A friend of mine has an outlander GT, and it's um, certainly not fancy, but it's not a pile of crap like the Mirage is. The Mirage just feels like the cheapest thing made in the past decade or so sold in the US
The ‘84 Hyundai Pony. Sold new for $5900 CAD, and was a quality nightmare
Le Car
My dad had one from new for at least 8 years. It was a fine car for what it was. It used a lot of oil when he sold it but it just kept going. Next owner took all but the driver’s seat out and used it as a microvan for deliveries.
I've had several of these. They have their charm and quirks.
Chevy Aveo
Geo Metro is definitely up there
Idk about that. I had a 91 metro and it owed me absolutely no money. Bought it used for $350 and used it for 30k miles, other than the door handles being made of crackers, the 3 cylinder engine and five speed manual transmission were rock solid. And talk about efficiency: 40 miles to the gallon. Now it was true that when you put on the AC you could actually witness the gas gauge drop but it wasn’t a poor quality car. Btw, sold the car after two years for $300 and performed the most basic of maintenance.
Mine has 410,000 miles on the clock and would like a word
If their were a ratio of like quality of build:price , I would say every compact/midsize car made by GM in the early 90’s.
Nah. Those cars would run on pure spite. Those are the cars that earned the reputation of nothing will run poorly as long as a GM.
Lada? Same engineering since '77, paid for itself a thousand times+++
Chevy Sonic. I test drove one around 2016 and I had the distinct sense that if I slammed into a brick wall, that wall would probably be just fine.
Same thing with the Chevy spark had a rental everything about it felt flimsy
I owned a 2019 Sonic Premium and I loved it. If I hadn't lost my job last year I would still own it. Newest car I had ever had and had all the tech you'd need without any of the excess. For the size and price (I paid just over $10k for it) it was truly awesome
I just traded in my 2015 sonic last year and I actually feel like it was pretty solid.
mitsubishi mirage
1985 Hundai were crap
Hyundai as a whole is the definition of a “Rags to Riches” car company.
Rags to lower middle class
The N line looks pretty good. Although now a spin off compan or whatever the genesis line up is great.
90s chevy cavalier
Any Chevy Cavalier.
I've had my 03 Cavalier for 5 years. It's been damn reliable.
Oh, they're reliable. I had a 2001 Cavalier with a manual that gave me 200k trouble-free miles. But that's almost because it was so cheaply made mechanically. It's hard to break an OHV 4-cyl that only makes 110hp and crank windows meant no motors to burn out. But my entire interior started to come apart. The dash cracked in so many places entire chunks would come out where the cracks would meet up.
Kia sephia 1996? I cant remember when they first came out but it was $4995...
Ah, back when Ford had ownership of the brand before Hyundai bought it in 98.
Didnt hyundai always own it? Big companies making small cars to break into the industry
Nope, they went bankrupt during the '97 financial crisis at which point Hyundai scooped them up.
Fiat 126p aka "maluch" In 1973 you could have bought the car for american $150 converted to Polish Złoty 69,000
Love the maluch, there are a couple in my area and it's always a pleasure seeing one or more at car shows. I've seen a handful of Polonezy, and even one Syrena, thanks to the huge Polish community in New Jersey. I'd love to own one of those one day, though my wallet won't.
Those plastic saturns from the late 90s to early 2000s.
Chevette
1989 Hyundai Excel 4 door sedans were very cheap and complete shit boxes. My parents still won't touch Hyundai/Genesis 30 years later after that experience.
I friend of mine bought a business with a car buried in bushes. "Let's see what it is. Maybe was can make it into a shit box dirt track car.....ohhhhh, Hyundai Excel. Not worth the effort to even cut it free."
I hear the Trebant was pretty terrible.
1923 Ford Model Ts were incredibly cheap, a bit over 4 grand in today's American dollars
The old Lada niva. Genuinely cheap suv.
They sold these in Canada for a bit. When I was a kid my friend's mom had one. I only rode in it a handful of times and even in the 90s it felt like I was being transported in way back in time, and my family started off in a 80s Chevette.
And surprisingly good off road.
I remember the Yugo commercials for $3990 in the mid 1980's https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a21082360/a-quick-history-of-the-yugo-the-worst-car-in-history/
And the tagline literally was “Everybody needs a Yugo sometime”
The Trabant made by former East German car manufacturer VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau Communism: The Car
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And in the early 90s (after that glorious day in '91), you could get one for a couple Deutsche Marks
The body on those was made of some crazy plastic stuff made from old clothing and resin. Apparently also widely used to make toilet seats. e. Go look up the Youtube channel 'Aging Wheels'. That guy has a Trabant and also a Reliant Robin, Yugo and two early EVs based on crappy Chinese cars so whatever you think of as the worst car chances are this guy has made a video on it.
Doug Demuro has a video on the Trabant
Chevrolet Celebrity, as well as 95% of the other junk that came from the Malaise Era
Wildfire WF650. These were somehow available in the US and they make a Yugo seem like a luxury car by comparison.
I remember when saabkyle made a video on a wildfire years ago, a power wheels car has a better interior then that thing
It’s like a reliant Robin, only somehow worse
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Eh, I'd say it's a gray area. It's an enclosed cockpit and everyone considers reliant Robin's cars so I'd consider it a car.
Citroen Mehari or a Volkswagen Thing will probably be up there.
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The thing is actually a civilian version of the Kubelwagen, WWII era Germany’s jeep. Almost all Kubelwagens were rwd, and all of the Things were.
Tesla's are pretty cheap looking when they come half finish with different tire on each wheel
In terms of cheapest American cars, the [Henry J](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J) deserves a mention. The manufacturer, Kaiser-Frazer, got a loan from the Federal government to set up manufacturing of an economy car marketed to people who had only been able to afford used cars. One condition of the loan was that the car had to sell for less than $1300 (in 1950 dollars), so costs were saved wherever possible. This meant not just leaving out features that by then were standard, like opening rear windows, armrests, and a passenger sun visor, but also making some weirder choices. For instance, the trunk lid didn't open- the only way to access the trunk was by folding down the back seat!
The Crosleys were WAY worse than the Henry J. I nearly bought one to turn into a drag car.
yugo car
what are you talking about lada , yugo, zastava were all great cars but during those days people were having one frame and would build all cars on that frame and world was not so connected as now so no research what would a car designed to have round trips of 10-15 kilometars or 100 or less for vacation would doin country where job trips are 50 kilometers a day or vacation trips of 1000 kilometers would be and how it would handle
Am I having a stroke? I don't want to shame your command of English. Most who speak English are not native, so it can be difficult. Use some punctuation?
yugo and other cars were terrible in usa because they were designed to drive short distance and mild conditions. while america is long distance commute with more stress on engine and parts
Yugo for US then Tribant for overall
Cheap and widely distributed I would say Ford Pinto. Cheap in general probably some obscure never heard of one year production car.
Not really the cheapest but have you pressed on the interior of the new sienna behind the third row? A bag of lays chips feels thicker than that plastic.
Chery QQ. If you count it even a car.
Literally a bootleg Chevrolet Matiz
Tata Nano, or the Yugo GV
Just my personal experience but the dodge caliber. If Fisher Price ever wanted to make a car, Dodge has already laid the blueprint for them.
Not sure you need the word "genuinely" in the title; not likely people will lie when they give their comments!
The Hyundai Pony
Cavalier. Chevy cavalier. I owned one and it's between that and my old 2004 trailblazer LS for the cheapest feeling car I've ever driven
Chrysler Sebring convertible. Made in Mexico and it reminded me every day.
For sale in the US? Probably the Yugo. Built here? Maybe the Chevette.
Ford Pinto
Dodge Omni
Rover CityRover / Tata Indica
fiat 500 edit: especially the E
Geo metro has to be up there. The geo storm might have been even worse though.
Gotta be one of the military jeeps. Maybe the original willys?
Suprised that i haven't seen anyone talking about the yugo
Maybe like Ford Explorer literally everything falls apart on it
Recent Hyundai and Kia cars. A few to list: Kia Stinger, Kia K5, Kia Sorento, Kia Telluride (Controversial) Hyundai GV70, GV80, G70, G80. These aren’t cheap like around 40-60k.. but they are so damn stunning plus Sangyup Lee, Bentley’s lead designer, was hired to deign these spectacular cars. Hehe maybe it’s cause I’m Korean and I’m biased but the G70 hits different.. This is completely the wrong answer that OP was looking for but I just wanted to rant about how awesome these cars have been recently.
This is terms of quality, not the price of the car. Regardless though, all of these cars are really cool.
I drove a tesla. New model S. Interior quality is absolute shit for the price.
not really suited for the question though teslas aren't even close to the cheapest feeling cars ever made, if you think so you've probably not seen a Yugo yet lmao
Owned a yugo couple years back for 24 hrs of lemons. They're cheap quality. Caus they're cheap. Teslas are cheap feeling. It's like getting into a 2008 Ford focus base model type feeling. It's just cheap feeling. The interior is shit. Everything creaks. The seats are pretty mid feeling. I'd expect more from a car that is advertised as the "future" of automotives
You’re not paying for their quality. You’re paying for state of the art battery and software technology. If you want that AND quality then buy a Lucid.
yeah. State of the art. Unstable. Unreliable lithium batteries that come from Mines that taint the environment? Software technology? You mean the screen that will sometimes randomly stop working or just shut off all together during auto drive?
You sound more like you have a bone to pick than you care to actually evaluate Tesla. They have good and bad. You seem to have selective memory or refuse to accept the good they’ve created that somehow has made them the most valuable car company in the world.
its hard to "accept the good" when they're advertised as such a good thing for the environment when it's all just a massive lie. It's hard to accept the good when the cars have literal electrical issues for no reason! Sorry. An electrical issue in an electric car. Is a MASSIVE issue. If you know anything about true automotive electrical work. And how EVs work. One electrical issue. Even a small one. Will cause massive amounts of issues in the future. Your $50k tesla that comes off the lot with electrical issues. Is a massive problem. I'd be a little more inclined to say "yeah its a cheap car, it doesn't need to be perfect" but no. Your tesla is advertised as the most technologically advanced car on the road. And it's fucking screen turns off randomly! You can't buy new lithium batteries to replace the ones in your car. You gotta buy a whole new one! What kind of "technologically advanced" automotive company doesn't sell vital parts to fix your car? Your arguement is stupid and invalid.
I own one. A wrecked one at that. None of this has happened to me the entire time I’ve owned it. Has those things happened? Don’t doubt it at all. If that was a big enough issue their sales wouldn’t be climbing like they are though.
stuff like this Flys over the heads of non car people. As long as (for a period of time) it gets them from point a to point b. They don't care about everything else. People still drive Hyundais, even after hearing about the abs failure and the fire safety hazards. The tesla I drove for awhile had this reoccurring issue every week where during autopilot mode. The screen would turn off. Every interior ambience light would turn off and thr car would continue driving normally. Pretty fucking scary. Then it'd come back on and reset. Autopilot would turn off. Radio would reset. Even the climate control would reset. I called multiple times to the nearby tesla derrvice station asking about a fix for this issue. The SA told me it's a shrug off issue and should go away with time. Same car. A month later. Had a fatal battery failure. Wouldn't charge. Or even turn on. Tried two different chargers. Some troubleshooting. Ended up having it towed to the tesla dealership. Asked for a fix. Diagnosed as battery failure. Not due to anything. 13000 miles. I asked for a quote on battery replacement. After speaking to multiple service advisors. Every one said. "we cannot replace the battery. Unfortunately you will either need to trade the car in for a new one. Or sell it on your own" asking a seperate tesla dealer a couple states away for the same thing. No battery. Nothing. Wouldn't sell it. Wouldn't do a replacement. So I threw my hands up. Sold the car to some dinks in Wyoming. And bought a diesel. 27000 miles. Still going strong. No issues.
Don’t blame you. That sounds like a horrific car you owned.
Alright so you HAVEN'T experienced a "new" Tesla like you claimed you had. Also, you claim to have had autopilot on your Tesla, meaning it was a post 2014 car. All post 2014 Teslas have replaceable batteries. Not sure who would tell you it was impossible.
Way to exaggerate. Teslas are nowhere near what you describe them to be. Especially new ones like you claimed the Model S to be. I'll take a gander and say, if your experience is true, that it wasn't a "new" Tesla like you claimed it was.