The worst Cars of the 1990s! Classy Cars

[@leogeee1]

I had a 98 Contour, 2.0 Zetec and a 5 SPD manual. I had it for 8 years, drove it everywhere and it was faultless. Everywhere else in the world it was called Ford Mondeo.

[@jlang8213]

5:46 what kind of infotainment were you expecting in the 90s? Practically nothing up through this point had any sort of touch screen, navigation was a paper map, collision avoidance was the driver paying attention, and Bluetooth hadn't even been invented.

[@frisco-2.0]

The original car of the Ford Contour, the Ford Mondeo, was a really good car and very successful in europe.

[@vwgolf6487]

The Contour was a great car. However, the back seats were cramped.

[@teched6013]

These cars seem more reliable then most new cars

[@chrisallen766]

Because they are.

[@chrisallen766]

They are. Cheaper and easier to fix when something goes wrong too

[@TimPenny-k4h]

My dad owned a contour and used it to haul all his work supplies before I inherited it and we never had issues. It was post face lift though

[@acadian76]

I had a 1995 Pontiac Firefly - Canada only twin to the Geo Metro. It was great little car for what is was designed for a cheap city runabout. Mine had the 4 cylinder engine with an automatic transmission, sure it was not a rocket, but had more than enough power for city driving. It also was great on gas and was very reliable.

[@perrycostello2267]

4th generation dealer here, like everyone else said, you got it wrong with the contour and continental, but unlike everyone else I’ve own a lot of them, and I would usually get into a lot of fights with my family because if I’d find a car interesting I wouldn’t sell it and keep it and drive it for a while till I got bored of it, and I wish I never sold that contour, and I wasn’t planning to sell it actually, until a kid in the military, walked in, I tried to get him something better but no, he was dead set on buying the car he kept seeing me in, after a while of talking to him, he’s brother told me secretly he’s in the reserves and was being called to come in in a month or few weeks I don’t remember the specifics but I then went up to him and asked if it was true, said yes and wasn’t planning to tell anyone yet and showed me a letter or something, at that point I couldn’t say no anymore and sold it to him 😢, $2900, if you’re wondering why all this happened over a contour, it’s because it was a SVT contour, with all documents from SVT proving it can do 155MPH or they would buy it back, 😂, Now the continental was basically a 4 door cobra, and had the power and grunt of one too, DOHC 4v 4.6L V8 😂 come on dude, do your research

[@chriscornelius2518]

The Lincoln Continental and Ford Contour were both very good cars. The Continental especially is a wonderful automobile. There was no track record of it being unreliable and problematic.

[@Ccyawn123]

Wrost?

[@JoshiJosho-mf8oi]

I bought a 95 contour GL off my grandma as a first car, it got the job done for several years and never left me stranded, but it started really trying to after about 140k so I ditched it.

[@kyleterpstra1899]

Good decision!

[@zythr9999]

lol

[@WalterKnox]

I have watched this whole video, and literally every single car on this list was perfectly fine.

[@espoespo3557]

I'm 6'5" and I loved my Geo Metro. It was so spacious inside.

[@richunggoy3960]

Had an suzuki esteem, was a great reliable car. I had all power features. I also had a metro, cheap but good car

[@davinp]

GM used cheap plastics in the Pontiac Sunfire

[@willielenton6620]

What did you expect in the 90s tech was not the point. Safety and price for the important thing.

[@TonyMartinChilcott-ke5jg]

Americans started making great car 1930 to 1970s after that Cheap and nasty things turned out.

[@ACmotorcycleguy]

The Contour was a great car for my mom and dad, and I had a great time in them as a little kid

[@delmurphy5510]

T100 was perfect.

[@mrjfrostbite]

I had a 96 Mystique in college and it was hot garbage but I don’t remember it being cramped.

[@lordmaul3]

The Chevrolet Lumina APV along with its rebadged siblings the Oldsmobile Silhouette and Pontiac Transport were known as the Dustbuster minivans.

[@stephenhanneken3041]

A hospital in southern New Jersey used a Lumina for a paramedic response vehicle. The medics were mortified.

[@davinp]

The Ford Countor was a world class car meaning parts made from all over the world

[@raymodg.8039]

It sure beats the gm pos you got.

[@ernestogasulla7763]

Only Americans could call the Contour interior "like a can of sardines". Its international name (Mondeo) was a worldwide hit, pretty spacious and reliable. And the only bad thing about the Lumina was how much room was wasted due to the high slope windshield. The usable part of the van was roomy and well built. Finally, economy cars were just that -basic tools to go from point A to point B. The Esteem and the Metro were just that, and provided working class Americans with an affordable means of transportation. Of course they weren't as roomy as full size sedan or powerful as a muscle car. Seriously, dude, there are many bad car review videos, but yours might be the very worst.

[@m00nkinftw]

More AI generated garbage...

[@Chris-v4z]

I had a Contour as a rental. It was so awfully cramped, feeling like a death trap, I U-turned from the Rental Agency and took.it right back for something else.

[@lordmaul3]

The Ford Contour and the rebadged Mercury Mystique aka the Ford Mondeo across the pond.

[@bass_fish_gleb]

I know Ford Contour as Ford Mondeo Mk1/Mk2- ans it's 1 of most reliable car of ever!!!

[@doordedeur]

Has GM ever built a good car?

[@WalterKnox]

I had a Contour not too long ago. The interior was fine and it drove great, the little Ztec engines they used will run forever as well. The only real issues with that car is the CD4E automatic transmission which is a piece of crap.

[@Crispychicken4u]

Geo was an interesting collaboration and Not a bad idea. want a Toyota Corolla?= geo prism , Suzuki swift =geo metro, Isuzu impulse = Geo storm( minus turbo) Suzuki sidekick/tracker

[@TequilaShotsBeerChaser]

I had both a contour and mystique and had no problems.

[@markoparviainen77]

I like Jetta 5 model,because i have she ❤

[@petercodrington4195]

Had '99 mystique, brakes squeaky noisy had to trade in.grrat v6 though.

[@kippaseo8027]

I would care more about what this AI voice was saying if he had gotten a single year correct. Both the suzukias well as the Suzuki built geo metroWere very reliable and very highly rated cars at the time. If somebody's gonna complain that there subcompactdoesn't offerpower windows I would love to know which Subcompact careven offered power windows as an option. Did the Toyota tercel? No! Did the Ford aspire? No! This channel just copied a bunch of complaints from other channels run by kids who weren't even alive back then and no very little about the subject.

[@BillLaBrie]

Yes, but look how it’s brought us all together here in the comments section! Joy!

[@pokest225]

What did the US Ford division do to make the Contour/Mistique that bad quality wise? In Europe, the Mondeo was a total sales hit. Car of the year '93. And decent quality/reliability.

[@BillLaBrie]

I suspect European expectations and use patterns are different. In the US we expect cars to feel sturdy, quiet, comfortable. It should cruise effortlessly at highway speeds for hours on end.

[@pokest225]

@BillLaBrie and in Europe, that's what the car did. 🤷‍♂️

[@BillLaBrie]

@@pokest225 to your expectations, note above

[@pokest225]

@@BillLaBrie different countries. Different specs. Different material qualities. I still find it weird that the US model was that bad, considering the EU model was good.

[@BillLaBrie]

@ different contexts perhaps. Back in the 80s automotive journalists in US magazines would rave about European models from US manufacturers that weren’t sold here. When they would occasionally come to the US, the reviews were a lot less enthusiastic or even negative. Hard to believe that much had changed. European cars from us manufacturers seem nice in Europe, not so nice in the US I guess.

[@HamadAhmad-y1m]

Geo Hafiz good work

[@michellephilhower2191]

I own a 99 mercury mystique ls. I love that car. Never had any real issues until I was in an accident which wasn't my fault

[@keithburns2285]

I would rather have basic interior things like crank windows and old button radios. As long as I have a reliable engine and transmission. I dont care for touch screen heated cooled seats just the bare needs

[@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443]

But what about the SVT Contour?

[@BillLaBrie]

I don’t hate many cars. Most of them are blandly functional at worst. That Contour, though. I hate those things with a burning passion. Close behind is the Mercury Sable of the same era. Taurus was strangely not as bad.

[@walterarroyo5220]

I hate this type of video where an AI voice names cars and generic scenarios instead of actual documented issues.

[@matiasfernandes]

Nice video but please, remove the subtitles and those purple boxes

[@ClassyCars-2]

Thanks for your comment

[@FernandoHenderson-q6i]

Dude ain't suppose telling cars that were just junk not vechials that were not up to the times I personally wish they make vechials more generic then what they are putting now you are not looking at this the right way dude!

[@lesklower7281]

What a whinger what picking on Suzuki and Toyota well my 1997 Toyota Hilux has no safety features a single cab chassis with an aluminium tray a carburator and no cat converter manual windows and gearbox but my Hilux has air-conditioning but it's one of the greatest vehicles l have ever bought and it feels every bump and l removed the power steering because it was leaking but it will do 100mph because the speedometer goes up to 160kph but my Hilux has the famous ultra reliable 22R engine you went on and on about features but with the combination of no tech and the 22R engine my Hilux will just go on fore ever we at least another 27 years which is better to own a vehicle with very few features that will last a long time which equals reliability and Hilux stands for High Luxury work that one out but reliability is a luxury and so is a full size spare tyre

[@realmrdoge]

Wrost?