Automotive engineering failures

There have been many engineering failures throughout recent history and further back in time Engineering mistakes have caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the last 400 years Mistakes have been learned from throughout the years, however failures are still occurring Engineering disasters

As part of our automotive engineering failures series, Popular Mechanics is rounding up the most dismal design failures in automotive history

Today: The Oldsmobile diesel engines of the 1970s and 80s, which frequently suffered gasket failures and hydrolock and soured Americans on small diesel engines for three decades

Of the myriad engineering failures from the reckless period at the end of the 1970s and the dawn of the '80s, the one with perhaps the longest-reaching effect on consumer preference was the unrelenting awfulness of the Oldsmobile diesels