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I voted Corvair, and that's after owning about five of the little junkers back in the early seventies.

WAY too many mechanical problems, not to mention learning to drive white-knuckled in any bad weather, waiting for that first inkling of oversteer. Volkswagens and Porsches were easy to drive after that Corvair "training" period.

WORST problem was the heated air for the interior of the car passed over the engine first. If the engine was leaking ANY oil, and they usually did, with defrost on, this half-burnt smog was directed up onto the inside of the windshield, then into your lungs!

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My experience was just the opposite. I had no problems whatsoever with mine. Of course I babied it, always cleaning, tightening, adjusting, etc. and it always ran like a top, or maybe a scalded cat was more like it. The one time I had it up to 120, some guy in his Mama's Buick was trying to pass me on the highway, he never got to. But then that was about 40 years ago when I had more b_lls than brains. Wish I still had it tho'.