imported_memnuts
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Mustang II anyone???
Worst Cars of all time
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superstring
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I'll second that! WHAT were they thinking??......well, anyway, they make one of the most beautiful cars......the M3
Getting back to ugly cars, I'll nominate the original Toyota Echo
superstring said:I'll second that! WHAT were they thinking??......well, anyway, they make one of the most beautiful cars......the M3
Getting back to ugly cars, I'll nominate the original Toyota Echo
Yes, the contrast of the Z4's "styling" :soscared: to the M3's beautiful proportions is, well, "odd":scared:
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SilverLexus said:They left out the Pontiac Aztek. Ugliest car on the planet.
Man, I hear that. Look at what I detailed yesterday:
Lowejackson
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Hemi57 said:
Yes but for the environment and circumstances it served its function well. If the engine died, you simply hit it with a hammer until it started to work again. Trabant - low tech and indestructible
No mention of the Plymouth Cricket?
The rebadged British import that set new standards for lousy engineering.
Can't understand the Pinto bashing. Can't remember which bank it was but the guy in charge of their car fleet, consisting of a couple thousand vehicles nation-wide, declared that of all the different makes and models in the fleet the Pinto had the lowest cost per mile to keep running. That cost included maintenance, repairs, etc. but excluded purchase price. Read that 20 years ago or so.
Poor underappreciated Pinto.
Now the Vega........
Bwa hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah.
The rebadged British import that set new standards for lousy engineering.
Can't understand the Pinto bashing. Can't remember which bank it was but the guy in charge of their car fleet, consisting of a couple thousand vehicles nation-wide, declared that of all the different makes and models in the fleet the Pinto had the lowest cost per mile to keep running. That cost included maintenance, repairs, etc. but excluded purchase price. Read that 20 years ago or so.
Poor underappreciated Pinto.
Now the Vega........
Bwa hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah.
The Subaru 360 is the only car to get an "unsatisfactory" from Consumer Reports... a friend has one, and I'd have to say it is pretty frightening. Imagine a slightly larger Kozy Koupe (the plastic things toddlers move around with their feet) that is licensed to go into traffic.
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kompressornsc
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Saw one of these for the first time today & I have to nominate it for one of the, uh...most interesting looking cars I've ever seen. I hope I don't offend anyone who happens to own one, but it looks like Lambo put one guy to design the front in one building, another guy to do the sides in another, the guy designing the cockpit a few blocks away, and the designer responsible for the back somewhere in Greece so they would never meet until the car went into production. I just kept looking at it trying to figure it out. It was one of those *disturbing* images where you know something just doesn't look right even though someone tried really hard at it. (And maybe it's a great car, I dunno. It was just weird looking).
SpoiledMan
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Styling of the Element is not it's strong point at all but comparison to an Aztek is just plain wrong.
White95Max
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I don't think the xB is ugly...it just looks dumb.
mdsmithers
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The 1984 Cadillac Cimarron Sedan set new lows for GM and Cadillac. I think it was a rebadged Citation
Sure there was the Pinto, but what about the Pinto Wagon!
Sure there was the Pinto, but what about the Pinto Wagon!
Let me just update my commentary about GM paint. Last weekend at an impromptu car show in Houston, some guy showed up in a black $60K Vette powered Caddy. Looked really good from 50 feet away; at 20 feet you started to notice the rippling of the lights in the paint and within 5 feet, it looked like a grapefruit at 10x magnification. :down :down :down $60K for a nice car and an Earl Scheib paintjob! GM ain't learned squatt over the years and I'll give ANYTHING GM away if I won it in a lottery!
Excuse me now, I have to go "blow" my lunch.......
Excuse me now, I have to go "blow" my lunch.......
What about the Cimarron? Thats never on any list. I saw it asked what Pontiac was smoking when they designed and released the Aztek, and I agree 100%. But what about what the GM guys were thinking when they tried to pass of a Cadaverlier as a Caddy? This could be the stupidest marketing ploy ever. Lets throw a crappy 6 in a crappy car and call it a Cadillac? Did they really think noone would notice different body molding and leather seats don't make a crappy compact sedan a luxury car? Didn't they realize that they were insulting their customers by trying to pass this one over on them. "Cavallac" or "Cadalier"? Which do you prefer?
imported_Sludge1
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I drove my neighbor's diesel 1981 Chevette (back in 81) once. Had to grab second gear half way through the intersection. Only thing slower (with a motor) that I have driven was a diesel Volkswagen camper van. It recorded a maximum speed of 69 mph on the autobahn and was brand new! It too needed a shift halfway across the intersection. :sosad
WSUcommuter
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As pointed above- rebadged Chevrolet Cavalier, with leather seats, a chrome trunk rack, different wheels, and different body moldings. I think they sold a couple ??
I've always had a fondness for the Edsel, perhaps bcz we were born the same year. The styling of the car was graceful with the exception of the vertical grill. Ten years later, Pontiac did the same thing very successfully with its full size cars.
The Edsel had two main problems. First, it was introduced at a time when the country was entering its worst post Depression reccession and also while other manufacturers were discounting their remaining '57s. Second, the division did not have its on manufacturing plant as originally promised. Mc Namara killed that. Instead every 5th chassis on a Ford or Mercury line was an Edsel which required different parts & trim.
Edsel deserved better.
The Mustang II was the great success story that everyone hates. The 1974 sold 296,041 units. That's more than were sold in any year from 1969-1973 and 1980-1993. in the II's worst year, 1977, it sold 161,654. That's more than were sold in any year from 1971-1973, 1982-85, and 1990-1993. Somebody liked it!
Everyone forgets that with the oil embargos, rising insurance cost and the increasing government demands for power robbing pollution controls and safety equipment, Dearbon had some real challenges. the 4 cyl engine developed for the II was used in Mustangs thru 1993 although turbo charging from 83 -86 and EFI from87 to 93 helped a lot.
All in all, the II saved Mustang thru a difficult period in US and Ford history and deserves our respect.
The Edsel had two main problems. First, it was introduced at a time when the country was entering its worst post Depression reccession and also while other manufacturers were discounting their remaining '57s. Second, the division did not have its on manufacturing plant as originally promised. Mc Namara killed that. Instead every 5th chassis on a Ford or Mercury line was an Edsel which required different parts & trim.
Edsel deserved better.
The Mustang II was the great success story that everyone hates. The 1974 sold 296,041 units. That's more than were sold in any year from 1969-1973 and 1980-1993. in the II's worst year, 1977, it sold 161,654. That's more than were sold in any year from 1971-1973, 1982-85, and 1990-1993. Somebody liked it!
Everyone forgets that with the oil embargos, rising insurance cost and the increasing government demands for power robbing pollution controls and safety equipment, Dearbon had some real challenges. the 4 cyl engine developed for the II was used in Mustangs thru 1993 although turbo charging from 83 -86 and EFI from87 to 93 helped a lot.
All in all, the II saved Mustang thru a difficult period in US and Ford history and deserves our respect.