shelleys_man_06

What do you guys think the worst car ever built was? My vote goes to the Pontiac Aztek/Buick Rendezvous. Piece of junk.

shigginsrx8

Top gear did a top 50 list or something,

here is the link

http://www.topgear.com/content/featu...worst_cars/01/

good old suzuki x-90 won!!

to be fair, i dont know if some american cars not sold in europe made the list, i didnt check

CUE2's RX-8

The YUGO had to be the worst! It was like an aluminum Dixie Cup!

bigmack000

that be my old winter beater lol 5.0 power ! hahaha http://www.cardomain.com/id/super_ricemobile

expo1

What about this past Motor Trend car of the year winner? Have not seen any on the road in a while, people must be hiding them in barns watching their value go up?

policyvote

MSNBC did a GREAT top ten on this a while back. I'm going to try to find it . . .

* Ugliest has to go to the Pontiac Aztek. I was at NAIAS when they unveiled this thing. I pointed and yelled "It's the Space Hoopty!" (referencing the Wayans brothers' VERY short-lived comedy series Homeboys in Outer Space)

* Lamest should probably go to the Geo . . . well, anything Geo, really. No power, no utility, no looks, no safety. The Metro would get you from New York to Rio on half a tank of gas, but other than that . . . I used to work at a used car dealership, and once this father and son came rolling in in a rusty Metro convertible. The other salesmen and I started joking about "pimpin' in my drop-top Geo." Just then, as they rolled though the lot, they suddenly stopped and bailed out of the car. Smoke came pouring out from under the hood. Seconds later the hood was open, dad was on his cell phone, and us sales guys were biting our fists to keep from laughing our asses off at these poor souls.

* Worst-built is probably the Yugo, but that's not even a car, really. My vote goes to the Chevrolet Vega. My uncle almost died sitting in the back seat of one once--his buddy, driving his new "sports car", tried to take a highway on-ramp a little too quickly. Several vehicle rolls later, my uncle had too many cracked vertebrae to count, and glass buried so deep in his scalp that it was months before it all worked its way out. Sheer luck that he lived, really.

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Racer Rick

My 1960 Ford Frontenac........2spd auto, maybe 60hp, 0-60 in 21sec (yes I did time it).

shelleys_man_06

Haha. You remember Homeboys in Outer Space? And afterwards, they came back to Earth to start a show called The Wayans. My girlfriend's brother owned a Geo convertible. I think it was a 3-cylinder, or running on three cylinders. I can't remember. He said it was his favorite car. Oh yeah, did I mention he was a moron? Convertible Geo? Not only will people laugh at your ugly car, they can also laugh at you because you have an ugly car.

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Boozehound

Come on guys, give some props to the Pinto. Not many other cars would seal you inside by crushing the doors closed while the gas tank ruptured in a low speed rear-end crash. Burning alive and being trapped inside puts it near the top of my list. Once all the recalls were done however, and the last two years were redesigned, it was just a POS economy car - but those first years... yikes.

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one of my friends was in town for a business trip last night, and his company got him an Aztek for a rental car. I went to pick him up and he offered to drive, we went and got in the Aztek and just laughed at the stupid thing. Why is there a large handle sticking out of the front console? The thing is just nuts. Needless to say, we took my car.

Maddox did a great article on the ugliest cars ever.
http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=ugly_cars

Truss

The Cimarron.

Or the Ponitac 6000.

Those were dark days at the General.

Or the K car.

T.

map

haha, my Dad had one of those and he LOVED it, powder blue paint, vinyl bench seats and all.

policyvote

Actually, this is the one REALLY COOL thing about the Aztek. The center console is actually a removable cooler; it keeps things cold with the internal 12v DC, and the whole console-thing lifts out--at which point it becomes an insulated drink carrier.

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policyvote

Once, combing through a junkyard, I found a turbo K car. Did you know those things came with a boost gauge in the dash, stock? Extremely pimp for such a complete PILE of a car.

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dova

Chrysler and plymouth had several car w/turbo ----and turbo boost gauge
k was one--plymouth sundance---chrysler newyorker---2 name a few

pelucidor

TRABANT: Trabants were in continuous production for 32 years, from 1958-90, and early examples were actually made of papier maché reinforced with resin. I guess these cars didn't rust, they just turned into gloop. Later cars were made of a proprietary substance called Duroplast, which is plastic reinforced with natural fibres, including cotton waste. Yuck. Trabants were powered by a two-stroke engine that emitted nine times more hydrocarbons and five times more carbon monoxide than the average western car. About three million were built.

Prod

Ford Pinto anyone?

picosrx8

As a kid I always thought my mom's 1980ish yellow Caprice Classic Wagon with the woodpanels on the side was the ugliest car ever. What a boat that thing was.

As for an absolute pile, its hard to beat a Ford Festiva, Geo Metro, or a Yugo. Then again, does anyone remeber the Diahatsu Charade?

starbucks

I nominate the Ford Tempo. We had one for a pool car. I remember driving it for the first time, thinking it must have been a really old car based on how it looked, handled and rode. When I looked at the odometer, our five or six year old pool car had less than 25k.

The silver paint was oxidized, the steering wheel had at lease six inches of slack left to right, the ride incredibly bouncy, and the interior was cramped, sterile, and had the appearance that leftover parts and pieces from other models were used.

Oh, and the numberous cigarette burns in the upholstery didn't help the look, either!

Found out later that it everyone thought it was such a POS, that if they had to drive somehere on business, most employees just took their own cars.

Air Force RX8

I have to agree with Truss...my mom and step-dad had a K car and the drivers door fell off of it while my mom was driving on I-4 near Tampa. Yes the WHOLE door fell off the car on the interstate! The car was literally in the shop mre than in their driveway. They wished the lemon laws in Florida were around back then!

VikingDJ

When I was in HS, my friend had a 68 Corvair. What a POS that thing was. it's definitely in my top ten of all time worst cars. There is no arguing that it was certainly one of the most unsafe cars around though. I drove it a few times, and man that thing was scary to drive. It had a two speed shifter on the dash by the radio, and you had to weigh down the front end to even get it to turn properly in rain. He ended up wrecking the car on a simple sharp turn in the rain. The car would not catch , and it just went straight right into the median. I'll never forget it, and he soon made it a project car that ended up rotting away, because even he was afraid to drive car anymore

Tamas

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Yep, the Trabant was pretty bad alright. I should know - my family had several ones during the 70's and 80's and I drove them quite a lot.
Interestinly, they did quite well on autocross courses, even though the thing is a dog otherwise. However, the handling was pretty good. Also, it stinks and pollutes like crazy, but it's incredibly simple mechanically speaking - so it's very easy to fix and cheap to keep it running.

http://www.microcarmuseum.com/tour/trabant.html

And if it's about crappy cars, let's not forget a bunch of Russian-built things like the Lada, Moskwitch or Zaporoshetz... :D

truemagellen

its funny you mention this car...since I've always thought Pontiac designers were on shrooms and PCP while designing every one of their cars

someone compared Pontiac styling to the slick look of tuperwear containers, I believe that assessment is an understatement

shorty911

srt-4 worst car ever