9. Chevy Vega
This isn’t in Leno’s collection now yet it was a car he wished he’d never purchased. According to Leno, it was the worst car he’s ever owned. If you know anything about the Chevy Vega, it was a car that rivaled the Ford Pinto as the worst car ever built by any American automaker. It was the car that started GM into a downward spiral and, decades later, they went into bankruptcy.
Leno told Vanity Fair, “I bought a Vega for $150. A horrible car. My favorite story about it is, my wife called me once, sounding panicked, and I said, ‘What happened?’ and she said, ‘I went around a corner, and a piece of the car fell off.’ Just a big chunk of the bumper. Clang! But I’m like Father Flanagan in Boy’s Town: There are no bad cars. There are just cars that need to be loved and taken care of.”
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