Monday, October 01, 2007

WORST CARS OF ALL TIME!

We all like to talk about the "best cars ever" and what was the greatest classic car ever...here's a fun list of the "Worst Cars of All Time" from Time magazine.


HERE'S A SAMPLE OF THE LIST



Fifty years ago, Ford introduced the EDSEL to the world. . . and, in less than two years, it became known as one of the most spectacular failures in automotive history.

--In honor of its debut, "Time" magazine just put out a GREAT list of the 50 worst cars of all time. Here are some of the highlights:

--FORD EDSEL, 1958. Quote, "Fuel thirsty and too expensive, it was the first victim of Madison Avenue hyper-hype. . . The public expect[ed] some plutonium-powered, pancake-making wondercar; what they got was a Mercury.



--AMPHICAR, 1961. "The Amphicar was both a lousy car and a lousy boat. It's single greatest demerit, and this is a big one, was that it wasn't particularly watertight."

--AMC PACER, 1978. "The worst car design of all time."



--DELOREAN DMC-12, 1981. "The car was heavy, underpowered and overpriced. And [JOHN] DE LOREAN was having dramas of his own. . . sitting in a hotel room with suitcases of money, discussing the supply-and-demand of [cocaine]."


--CAMARO IRON DUKE, 1982. "The 2.5-liter, four-cylinder 'Iron Duke' was the smallest, least powerful, most un-Camaro-like engine that could be. . . the Iron Duke Camaro had zero-to-60 acceleration of around 20 seconds."


--YUGO GV, 1985. "Built in Soviet-bloc Yugoslavia, the Yugo had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint."

--FORD EXPLORER, 1995. "How could the best-selling passenger vehicle in America, 14 years running, wind up on this list? In its very success, the Ford Explorer is responsible



--DELOREAN DMC-12, 1981. "The car was heavy, underpowered and overpriced. And [JOHN] DE LOREAN was having dramas of his own. . . sitting in a hotel room with suitcases of money, discussing the supply-and-demand of [cocaine]."


--CAMARO IRON DUKE, 1982. "The 2.5-liter, four-cylinder 'Iron Duke' was the smallest, least powerful, most un-Camaro-like engine that could be. . . the Iron Duke Camaro had zero-to-60 acceleration of around 20 seconds."


--YUGO GV, 1985. "Built in Soviet-bloc Yugoslavia, the Yugo had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint."

--FORD EXPLORER, 1995. "How could the best-selling passenger vehicle in America, 14 years running, wind up on this list? In its very success, the Ford Explorer is responsible for setting this country on the spiral of vehicular obesity that we still contend with today."


--PONTIAC AZTEK, 2001. "We like cars that look like us. With its multiple eyes and supernumerary nostrils, the Aztek looks deformed and scary. . . this car could not have been more instantly hated if it had a Swastika tattoo on its forehead."

--HUMMER H2, 2003. "Introduced shortly after 9/11, the Hummer H2 sent all the wrong signals. It was/is arrogantly huge, overtly militaristic, openly scornful of the common good." (Time)

SEE THE COMPLETE LIST AND TIME ARTICLE HERE!

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