By Yahoo Autos has their list out for the worst cars of the decade and unsurprisingly to me, anything made by Daewoo made the list:
9. Daewoo Anything
1999-2002
We had just tested a Suzuki Esteem and marveled at how competent even the cheapest little econoboxes had become when a leather-lined Leganza midsize sedan showed up — the best Daewoo had to offer. We mused over which would kill us first: the toxic gases from the cheap interior or the recalcitrant transmission and inconsistent acceleration. Three days into the loan, the first Daewoo crash tests in U.S. history came out, and we called Daewoo and told them to come pick up the car. We’d never done that before, and we haven’t since. [Yahoo Autos]
I have never been impressed with any Daewoo car. Does anyone know of a Daewoo car that is of any quality and value?
12:12 am on October 9th, 2009 1
I can just hear the koreans now. Crying about how they are victims of some critic who's biased against the poor, innocent koreans.
Similiar to 2006 when the ref, or whoever he was, was a racist "white" man for making the correct call against the korean team
It is someone else's fault, maybe the Japanese!
Almost like in 2006.
1:51 am on October 9th, 2009 2
I can see it now, people like JohnT using this bit of news and gloating about how terrible Korean products are. They'll gloat and they'll say how terrible and inferior Koreans are. In fact, just about any subjects about Korea is nothing but a whining fest for foreigners like JohnT.
4:14 am on October 9th, 2009 3
“recalcitrant transmission and inconsistent acceleration”
I’ve owned a Daewoo…This sums up the performance of its transmission pretty well. Going uphill in that car sure was an experience.
9:49 am on October 9th, 2009 4
12:56 pm on October 9th, 2009 5
I owned a Daewoo Prince. What a POS!!!
1:14 pm on October 10th, 2009 6
Not really. Pratically nobody is buying Daewoo nowadays and the hottest car at the moment in Korea is the Renault-Samsung SM3 (basically a Korean designed and built Renault with Nissan parts).
1:25 pm on October 10th, 2009 7
There are still a few on the road, so some of them were well built…But I always felt the name must have been picked to make up for its shortcomings.