The 1990s weren’t as great as we remember them to be. I’m as guilty as any of you of regard the time before I had internet as the golden age of automotive enthusiasm. The cars were better then, right? No. We all have rose-colored glasses. The cars were built like crap, they were gutless, they were unreliable, and many of them were ugly. We should have expected better, but we didn’t know what better was.
I’ve driven and owned a whole lot of cars from the 1990s, and while some parts of the ownership experience elicit joy, there’s a lot of pain and compromise that comes with it. Old cars are old cars, and old car shit happens. Time hasn’t been kind to 1990s cars, and here’s our opportunity to experience the collective catharsis of lambasting them all together.
Here we go, a list of truly crap cars from a truly crap decade.
