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The worst car of the millenium? heheheheheheh....

In no particular order of disdain, these are the cars that will withstand the detest of time:

LeCar (Renault) - Le crapola.

The Thing (Volkswagen) - What was left after an artillery shell ripped the top off a wanna-be armoured gun vehicle.

Corvair (Chevrolet) - Nader, Schmader: this car wasn't the death trap he called it, but it was a piece of garbage regardless. My mother was fool enough to buy the '61 Corvair station wagon and all she got was soot across the tailgate.

Gremlin (AMC) - Should be self-explanatory.

1960-62 Lancer (Dodge) - What its sister car, the Plymouth Valiant, resembled after surviving an acid fight between rival gangs.

Those butt-ugly 1950s "business coupes" - You know the ones: two doors, two-seat capacity, slightly elongated rear ends, tiny round roof covering only the doors. Dishonourable mention: The Plymouth, Dodge, and DeSoto models. (Go to your DeSoto-Plymouth dealer but don't you dare tell 'em Groucho sent you...)

1948 Hudson - It had to be seen to be disbelieved. Still does.

That pathetic joke of a 1986 Lincoln Town Car that some nimrod in Yuba City, California mounted on a monster truck chassis in 1992-98 - As God is my witness, I am not making this up: the car did (does, for all I know) exist. A laugh and a half the first time; grounds for defamation of character (Lincoln's, that is) the second time around.

Early 1970s Matador fastback (AMC) - Looked like the child conceived within a 1960s Ford Torino after being raped by an Edsel. Rode like a kid's go-kart with no two wheels the same size.

Zil - The official car of the Soviet Politburo apparatchiks. Almost as ugly as their politics.

Lincoln Versailles - A Ford Grenada trying to be what the Chevrolet Cavalier thought it was being as a Cadillac Cimarron. And about as useless in the doing, too.

1960-63 Ford Falcon - I couldn't possibly top the description offered by a Ford engineer as quoted in Collier-Horowitz's historiography of the Ford family: "(Robert) McNamara wears granny glasses and he brings out a granny car." (McNamara was running the show at Ford and the Falcon was his pet car. It was also the anticipatory proof that what would come to be politically correct cars were usually long on gas mileague and short on anything else that made a car attractive to drive, ride, or see.) Trouble was, Granny could outrun the Falcon...with her walker!

Yugo - If only for making Le Car look stylish.

....just for openers...

Half the cars you mention, I'd give a left testicle for...any of the business coups, any Hudson or any Falcon V8.

1960-63 Ford Falcon

I had a friend with a '61 Falcon.He found out one day that the floor of the trunk was also the top of the fuel tank. Seems that the trunk leaked rain water and the floor rusted out.
He put the gas pump nozzle into the filler and put the 'auto' cutoff on it.
Thirty five gallons later he had a trunk full of gas. LOL

Need to add "Lotus" here!

Heard a Brit talking on a car show program once say that the reason that Lotus went bankrupt periodically was that....

LOTUS = Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious!

Never owned one - but they do spend most of the time in the shop....British engineering. "Well, they got the Spitfire right". Yea, but that was 60 years ago!