rev up your engines, today by popular demand I'm gonna talk about five cars
that are sold in the United States that I feel shouldn't be sold here now the
first of these five terrible cars is the Fiat 500 now in 1983 Fiat left the
American market and as far as I'm concerned they should have stayed away
but of course Fiat bought Chrysler the bottom in 2009 and then two years later
they brought the Fiat 500 in after a short period of time they had sold quite
a few of these Fiat 500 but they spent a ton in advertising on it and one year
they actually sold about 45,000 of these things but the last year I check hey
they sold less than 4,000 of them for a whole year
the original Fiat 500 had a 13 horsepower edge and Pennock ago 53 miles
an hour at top speed it was the drive around city Italian car
so you could drive around Rome and stuff where there's no parking spaces now
granted the modern Fiat 500 has a hundred and one horsepower engine but
for the American market hey underpowered and their tiny little cars but they're
not well built tiny little cars I always laughed when they had all those ads on
TV and they said they show the Fiat 500s like they're leaving Italy and they
drive under the ocean they come up on the shores of the United States well my
dad said hey Scotty you should make a joke about that he said actually most of
the Fiat 500 sold in the United States were produced in Mexico so they should
have them floating over the Rio Grande on inner tubes or something I thought
that was a pretty good comment but really there are poorly made vehicles my
customers with them they had engines blow up they had transmission failures
they had cooling system failures they weren't well made cars you watch a bunch
of them going around you don't run right at the time you see them smoking out the
exhaust they're just not that well made vehicles when you can get smaller toyotas
or Honda why would you pay the same kind of money for this
little Fiat 500 take one ride in it and it's like
this thing rides horrible I'm going back in my Lexus
as far as I'm concerned they failed again from when I've read
fiat is even thinking about taking all their Fiat brands out of the United
States again and just saw the Fiat slash Chrysler versions that have Fiat engines
and transmissions in them but not the name Fiat itself and I agree take them
all the way another car that they shouldn't sell in the United States is a
Mitsubishi Mirage there's something for you the name Mirage it's kind of telling
you the car is a mirage of a good car not the real thing now in 2019 they
still call it the Mitsubishi Mirage and really the cheaply made cars realize
when they call them dodge Colts they were a cheaper to buy car too you kind
of knew where your again you paid a lot less than for a runaround car that could
be okay but they were a typical Mitsubishi product Mitsubishi has always
made cheaper engine parts I remember over the years
tons of my customers who bought Mitsubishi they got to be older they
started burning oil like mad some of them plumes of smoke came out they just
put cheaper piston rings into things you think something as critical as a piston
rings which I pay expensive would be well made but no they made them bad so
tons of them turned into giant oil burners in the 2019 model Mitsubishi
Mirage it's only got 78 horsepower there are plenty better built cars out
there for the price of one of those sure they're a bottom-line car but there's a
lot better stuff out there I just wish they stopped selling those things myself
historically they haven't been great cars and they really aren't improved all
that much I'd stay away the next vehicle I worship didn't sell in the United
States is a Jeep Compass compact SUV the Jeep decided to start building in 2007
originally the compasses were made in Illinois but of course now all the
production for the American and European versions come from Mexico not a land
known for quality production and since fiat took over guess what the quality's
gone even further down as far as I'm concerned they've always had a problem
of automatic transmissions with Jeeps and in these compasses they have all
kinds of problems it doesn't matter if you got the automatic transmission or
the CVT transmissions they are just problem transmissions out of customers
one couldn't even make it from Houston to Dallas 4-hour Drive if you're
going slow the transmission blow up I'm on the thing and I saw engines go out
on them they just don't have the quality they're using the name Jeep and they're
making a cheap vehicle making it smaller and trying to sell it to cover a whole
market of things that really I don't think they should have got involved in
in the first place it should stop so I'm in the United States the quality these
things that are made in Mexico not too good oh that's real car wish they didn't sell
United States is a Nissan Altima decades ago the Nissan Altimas we're solid
reliable transportation cars back in the 90s I had customers they get to 300,000
pretty much trouble-free miles out of those tanks since Renault took over a
Nissan family yes you have the engines blowing up blowing head gaskets and
their transmission failure is really one of the highest in the world especially
with those horrendous jet Coe CVT transmissions I swear practically every
customer of mine who bought a Nissan Altima with the CVT that CVT
transmission went out if they had it for a certain amount of years and it cost so
much to fix those CVT transmissions correctly they all either junked the
cars or just trade in a min now in 2019 Nissan put the Altima on their semi
autonomous driving list these things have enough problems when a human is
driving them I certainly personally would not trust one of those things to
drive me around itself and it's a shame cuz the altimas used to be great cars
but no longer stay away from Nissan Altimas if you value your money
another big car to stay away from is the Audi a4 Quattro I wish they never
brought it into United States I feel sorry for my customers who owned them
and had to spend a lot of money or then just traded them in lost a fortune when I
got rid of the things now you can get them in two-wheel drive or all-wheel
drive these days it's bad enough with a two-wheel drive you're adding all that
complexity other German design all-wheel drive you're just asking for problems as
they age, one of my old next-door neighbors years ago it was a corporate
lawyer he had one and it was a manual transmission and believe it or not the
thing blew up when he was driving at down a road went ahead like 30,000 miles
it just blew up understand transmissions and those things are much
better made than their automatic transmissions they got those
very complex dual clutch automatic transmissions that Volkswagen of course
owns audience had nothing but problems with I know it's four-cylinder 2-liter
turbocharged engines with the turbos brake on them they blow head gaskets
they burn oil I have seen so many problems with those cars I had a
customer a month ago bought one you 2,500 bucks for thought he got a deal
they brought to me since it seems to be burning oil so I said yeah it's burning
oil I pulled the spark plugs off they're all covered with carbon so I decided to
take a compression rating on the engine made let's decide the compression was
very low showing if the piston rings are worn out I mean if you want a fast zippy
car and you really got to have one lease one you lease a new one the repairs are
on them it's under warranty you know exactly how much money you're gonna lose
because if you actually bought one and then sold them when it was three or four
years old you would lose tons more money than you would if you would just leased
the car because their values plummet like a rock going down Niagara Falls the
GDI high pressure fuel pump goes gasoline direct injection they're
notorious for failing causing a lot of hesitation and they just are not very
well built vehicles and their list price for a 2019 37 thousand four hundred
dollars you're not giving these things away hey you want to zip me a little
kind of goes around yeah get yourself up Honda Civic type-r something like that
does even zippier more fun to drive and it won't break down all the time like
the Audi does signing all five cars I wish they didn't sell in the United
States anymore perhaps nobody will buy them and then they'll stop selling them
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