...and it looks like the 500 is making a comeback. Chances are that you won't be gettin the girl by piloting one of those sexy machines (she looks a bit too angry anyway).
Posted on 08/16/2004 10:51:49 PM PDT by sully777
Take A Peak At Ugliest Cars Ever Made (PHOTO GALLERY)
[Included in the list are the Edsel Citation and AMC Gremlin]
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/autos/gallery.jsp?floc=g-uglycar1&gname=uglycar&gproj=u&grurl=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.netscape.com%2Fapple.adp&photo=1
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Sign me up for one of those turbos if they ever make them again!
My two 'favorites' also, but there is a new kid on the block
The Toyota Scion xB.... a cardboard box with wheels.
No list is complete without the danged Matador! Can't remember who made it...
...and it looks like the 500 is making a comeback. Chances are that you won't be gettin the girl by piloting one of those sexy machines (she looks a bit too angry anyway).
My wife actually had a Gremlin when we got married.
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Funny, that is one of the highest rated SUV's on the road. The infiniti version is MUCH cooler.
Hilarious, I saw those cars in Ireland. I love the two-tiered headlight system.
Is that a early NASA design?
My first and only love drove a red '65 Chevy El Camino. It had black tuck and roll upholstery and a 4-track tape. As he fondly remembers...."it was 'cherry.'
I would never, ever call it an ugly car. What memories!!
Isn't that what Urkel drove in "Family Matters"?
It looks like it's designed to fool predators; they can't tell which way it's facing!
Multipla? What kind of name is that?
CA....
I have to admit I did not like the looks of the Element at first, but it is a very handy shopping utility vehicle. My wife has one and loves it.
Its called a SCION (I think it is a division of Toyota). That is actually a very flattering picture. They are ugly beyond words in real life.
In defense of the Bug (younger generation thinking):
Back Seat Space.
New Beetle: 60/40 SPLIT folding rear seats.
When the Corporation was in such dire straights, back in 1979, we all know what happened, or do we?
Chrysler got some loans from the US Government...that much is certain. That Chrysler (as a condition of those loans) had to sell off Chrysler Defense and the M1 turbine-powered tank program is somewhat lesser known, but still public knowledge.
What is known only to a priveleged few is that the government killed a dream of a lifetime for a group of 70 people at the Chrysler "skunkworks" in Highland Park.
Believe it or not, Chrysler was days away from making a production decision (one which Iacocca favored) on a rather unique vehicle....
1981 Chrysler New Yorker Turbine car (M-body)... the car was ready to be tooled according to the head of the program, Mr. George Scheckter, whom I met when I got to see and touch the 1963 Turbine Car again in 1989. There was no more design work to be accomplished, just tool and start production.
The Turbine Engine was a fifth generation (not a 3rd generation like the 1963 car) engine capable of 22mpg in the EPA test cycles. To really make this sink in, one of the prototypes is still in existence (at least it was in 1989), stored in the same building as the 1963 car, its tooling and all the remaining spare parts (enough to build 3 more of the '63 cars).
Your government thought it was too much of a risk and ordered the car cancelled as "too risky, from an economic standpoint." Just imagine what COULD have happened!
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