The Dauphine's legacy is largely
dominated by its infamously poor performance and bad handling, as
well as its poor reliability: in many markets (particularly the
United States and the United Kingdom) the car became notorious for
mechanical problems.
In 2002, the auto enthusiasts' radio show Car Talk named the
Dauphine the 9th Worst Car Of The Millennium, calling it "truly
unencumbered by the engineering process". In 2007, Time named it one
of the 50 worst cars of all time, calling it "the most ineffective
bit of French engineering since the Maginot Line" and noting that it
could actually be heard rusting.
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