{"id":79298,"date":"2014-07-22T07:24:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T11:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=79298"},"modified":"2014-07-22T13:04:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T17:04:36","slug":"the-14-worst-cars-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2014\/07\/the-14-worst-cars-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"The 14 Worst Cars of the Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About to sink without a trace: the Coda battery sedan didn't last much longer than the media test drive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s a lot to like when it comes to the latest cars, trucks and crossovers. Today\u2019s vehicles are, to the large degree, better than ever.\u00a0 Intense competition translates into more striking and creative designs, improved fuel economy, better performance and far more features.<\/p>\n

That said, a few stinkers still slip through, models that have you wondering who was on vacation when they came up for approval. We have our own list of lemons. And by that we don\u2019t necessarily mean they had reliability issues, but that they were plagued by bad designs, poor performance, minimal utility, unjustifiable price tags or, yes, quality problems.<\/p>\n

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Fuel for Thought!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We raised the question with a number of our colleagues to see what products landed on their list and found that a few, like the Pontiac Aztek and Acura ZDX, came up time and time again. Others were surprising. Indeed, some of our favorite products were listed at losers by media colleagues \u2013 and vice versa. So, we expect some of our readers will also question our judgment, perhaps our sanity. But here\u2019s our list of the 14 worst cars of the past decade.<\/p>\n