Wednesday, March 23, 2016

I Drove the Worst Car in America

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This is the Leata Cabalero, and it is probably the worst automobile in America. Actually, there's no "probably" about it: This feculent lump of eyesore has actually won an award for being terrible, the zero-prestige Worst of Show trophy at Concours d'Lemons. Built in Idaho for a single year, 1977, the car is utterly horrible and entirely without merit. So I'm going to drive it.

 There are any number of things wrong with the Cabalero. Take, for example, the appearance, something like a malnourished, stunted Chrysler Cordoba. Also, it's based on a Chevrolet Chevette, which is never a good place to start anything. More than 350 pounds of Bondo, fiberglass, and despair haven been added to craft this lumpen turd of an automobile, making an already slow and crumbly front-drive vehicle even worse. It was built with an obvious indifference. The brakes don't work. Oh, and, that's not even the correct way to spell “Caballero."...  READ MORE

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