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and we're broadcasting this week from the millennial, mobile, mechanical, meritorious, idioticurety division.

It's a mouthful, isn't it?

It is.

Here at Car Talk Plaza, otherwise known as worst cars of the millennium.

Now, in the past couple of weeks, I guess, we've asked you for nominations for the worst cars of the last thousand years or so.

Anyway, the judges, that being us, have deliberated over much coffee and donuts, and we have come up with a list of finalists.

And now we want you to vote for one of these finalists as the worst car of the millennium.

Got it? You're ready? And here they are. A list that would give a mechanic night sweats.

Okay, so we're going to give you the list. So you get the pencil. Right. And you're going to

write them down and then you can tell us which one you're going to vote for. Okay? Okay, I'm ready.

The Chevy Vega. Man, we had lots and lots of people recommending this.

And understandably, because they sold a lot of these.

Yeah.

This was touted as the car whose engine would last, either 10,000 miles or 500,000 miles.

Yeah.

Most of them lost to 10.

Either too short or way too long. For many people, it was way too long because they were just dying to get rid of this car. The Ford Pinto. This made an explosive entry into the market. Yes, it did. The AMC Gremlin, which was as ugly as you could get. And way ahead of its time. We weren't ready for that degree of ugliness yet. This could be my vote, the Renault or Renault Doffin.

I like Renault.

It was Renault in those days.

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