The World’s Ugliest Cars
A recent survey selects the worst designed cars of all time. The top pick?
1. Chevrolet Chevette
“When the car went into any type of water puddle it would suck water into the engine. They fell apart after 40,000 miles. Piece of junk.”
2. Ford Edsel
“Has got to be the ugliest car ever to roll out of Detroit.”
“One of the worst designs and poorly manufactured cars of all time.”
“Gas-guzzling, three-ton behemoth with a toilet seat grill and inexplicably tacky push-button transmission shifting. The standard by which all other automotive brand failures have been judged (and ridiculed) for 50 years.”
3. AMC Matador
“Looks like a spaceship.”Has to be just a hair uglier than the Gremlin…and it doesn’t matter what year.The Matador coupe had those bug-ugly front lights and the strange rear-end design treatment. It’s hard to imagine a car that large having so little interior space. A total waste of steel (and glass, and plastic, and rubber…).
4. Chevrolet Corvair
“Ugly, underpowered, not safe, not safe, not safe. A very bad imitation of the VW Bug. I hardly ever see one, not even at old car shows, probably due to a corrosion problem.”
5. AMC Gremlin
The most hideously ill-proportioned car of all time.This car was the epitome of ugly. The first subcompact was introduced Apr. 1, 1970 (April Fools’ Day).
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6. Chevrolet Vega
“Cheaply built, rough running, harsh ride, rust prone. It was without a doubt the worst vehicle.An alleged four-seater that required a pry bar and ‘the jaws of life’ (both optional) for passenger extrication from the zero-legroom back seat. Sieve-like leaking aluminum-block four-cylinder engine (guaranteed to crack at no more than 30,000 miles), generating perhaps 70 hp (downhill only, with a good tailwind), while still managing to get less than 20 mpg on the highway! A truly masterful feat of reverse engineering by the guys from Flint.
7. Pontiac Aztek
“There must have been a front-end design team and a rear-end design team. And the two teams NEVER spoke to each other!”"The only car that can make a Pacer wagon look good.” “It looks like a mini-trash truck.”
8. Ford Pinto
“If the vehicle was rear-ended, it made the accident worse than it should’ve been because the gas tank exploded.”"Junk from the day they built it! Do you see any around anywhere? Not even close to a collectible car.”
9. Yugo
“You couldn’t get scrap-metal money even if it was running.”
10. AMC Pacer
“Looked like a fishbowl and those windows leaked. Add a leaky sunroof to it and the car rusted from the inside out!”.”It had seats designed like blue jeans, including the brass buttons, which burned the crap out of you on a hot day.” Six feet long, eight feet wide, bicycle tires all around, and 0 to 60 in four-and-a-half hours. What a prize! AMC’s only conceivable excuse for this engineering and stylistic horror would be if their 1970s design crew was tripping on massive quantities of acid…and even then…it wouldn’t be a good excuse.
