People loved to hate them....
I loved mine.
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Posted on 07/24/2010 7:58:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Considering how many new cars are rolled out every year, it's no surprise that a few might be just plain homely. There's a chance that certain styles might become fashionable with a dash of retro hip. (Well, maybe not from the 1970s.)
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Nothing can stop... THE CAR! (remember this one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSmG7W5Qjrk&feature=related
The Maverick was a Ford. It was an el cheapo Mustang, and the Pinto was an el cheapo Maverick.
I loved mine.
I had one! Drove it until the bondo wouldn’t hold the body together anymore!
oh yeah...lol (slinking away with no excuse for that blunder) :O
This one looks pretty much like the one my mom bought back in '65. Then she had it painted orange.
It does seem like a review that would be right at home with "the 50 ugliest male earings".
Interesting story behind much of what AMC did during its waning years prior to being bought out by Chrysler, more or less for Jeep and nothing else.
Dick Teague was head stylist, and a very talented man. He was stymied at every turn by penny-pinching. The Pacer was intended to be a much less ponderous, smaller car, with a fuel injected four or perhaps even a Wankel, which was bandied about at the time. Scale matters, and what looked pretty good at 2/3 the size of what was eventually produced, ended up on an existing platform looking like the ambulatory fishbowl that we know and love/hate today.
Same with the Matador Coupe from the same era, which also suffered the same fate of unfortunate scale, a beautiful design that was far too large. The quad round tail lights ended up the size of dishplates, the hood was big enough to camp out on, too ponderous, too bulbous. Still, the “X” model with the right interior and paint scheme, combined with enough rubber filling the wheelwells, looked pretty decent despite all that.
The “proboscis” or Jimmy Durante schnozz on the fullsize sedan, Matador or Ambassador, was a shoestring solution to Federal crash testing requirements. It was a crumple zone, nothing more and nothing less. The line had been reduced to almost exclusively fleet sales by then, it enabled them to continue to produce that car, which went all the way back to the early sixties with Rambler, for a few more years.
AMC did a few nice cars before budget woes got the best of them, and Dick Teague was behind them, too. AMX, Javelin, etcetera.
Ha! This was fun. My parents loved me so much they let me have their Corvair to drive as a teen. I loved that car. One day, I went out and it was gone— they had given it away!
They[’re all ugly. Any Questions? Someone referred to them as mushrooms, and that seems right to me.
Maybe I missed it but the Fiat Multipla needs to be on that list top row.
The Corvair is beautiful and Ralph Nadar was the Rachel Carson of cars.
ElCamino !! How is that? the guy must be a fruit that compiled that list.
Convertible Corvairs looked better than the hardtops, IMO.
Is that the Tribeca? Because I really like the model. Also loke fellow crossover, Ford Edge...but can’t afford either.New..mand such niche vehicles they are not easily found on the secondary market. Will get a used Escape or Jeep.
OOP’s found the FiatMultipla Now that one deserves a place here.
I had an Orange Gremlin 4 on the floor for 10 years. Never one time did I have the oil changed in it. When my Dad sold it for me it was still running like a top. I got a big ugly green Ford LTD then. I missed my little Gremlin.
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