15 worst cars ever designed?

[Eurasian]

A neighbor had a Cosworth Vega -- the most unreliable American car from the 70's I can remember, which is saying something!

 

[JS Hoover]

You've got something against wagons it looks like.

How dare you put on this list the closest precursor to the awesome silhouette of the Tesla Cybertruck. The Pontiac Aztek.

I bet you'd include this wagon on your list had you thought of it. I give you the Vega Station Wagon estate.
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Or maybe you'd prefer the Vega station wagon GT iteration.
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a6424/how-the-chevy-vega-almost-destroyed-gm/

au contraire...I love the '70s Mercedes' wagons

 

[Kal Rubinson]

The closest I ever came to owning one of these was the AMC Hornet with the same stupid, vacuum operated windshield wipers. But fortunately stayed away from the rest. What about you and do you agree with the list?

http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1366&cid=nl.x.dn14.edt.aud.dn.20161019.tst004t&doc_id=281829&image_number=1

Followed this. Dead end. Cannot find useful link to article.

 

[Ratatoskr]

Chevy Vega. I had a 1971 that was rusting out and developed warped heads in two years. I don't think any of them exist any more but have all turned to rust.

 

[Eurasian]

au contraire...I love the '70s Mercedes' wagons
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I had a '78 300TD with a manual transmission, wind up windows and a manual sunroof. We put over 300,000 miles on her -- still had the original clutch! I miss that one a lot.

 

[Wombat]

I'm embarrassed to post these Aussie duds.

Lightburn Zeta:

The Sports:

 

[RayDunzl]

Wow.

But not much worse than what my Dad had when I was born.

Something like this:

 

[digicidal]

I'm embarrassed to post these Aussie duds.

Lightburn Zeta:

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The Sports:

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Man, I would have killed to have a peddle car that nice when I was 5 years old. Wait, you mean it's not a children's toy?

 

[Wombat]

Another Down Under blunder. This one is based on the Italian Goggomobile mechanicals:

The Dart:

A workmate drove one of these to work. A few of us used to lift it up and hide it away before knock-off time.

 

[Wombat]

Wow.

But not much worse than what my Dad had when I was born.

Something like this:

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But Ray, it is sooooooooooo you.

 

[RayDunzl]

But Ray, it is sooooooooooo you.

I'm pretty conservative, but it looks sorta small.

Nice antenna, though.

 

[digicidal]

So I'm guessing crash testing wasn't a thing back then either? Unless everyone was driving one of those I can't see anything over ~70kph being survivable. Although, on the upside, if there was a pileup... everyone could just help each other pick up the cars and set them to the side... no toe-truck required.

 

[Soniclife]

I'm embarrassed to post these Aussie duds.

Lightburn Zeta:

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The Sports:

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They are truly hideous, they look like a cartoons idea of a crap car.

 

[Putter]

The ol' swing axle gotcha, eh ... well, it got me!! First car was a beetle with the ultra simple version of that suspension, and driving home on holidays within the first year of ownership, down a dirt road just for the heck of it - round a very sandy corner at a very mild speed ... over she goes!! Hanging upside down from a seat belt I was smart enough to have had installed, I contemplated the box of apples I had bought just a short distance before from a fruit stand, strewn everywhere outside the car ...

I ended up getting half my money back that I had paid for the poor thing, from a wrecker - I was quite pleased about that!

It got me too although I wasn't the driver and we were more slightly impaired (the current term is DWI). Apparently there was highway construction and the road now curved when it used to be straight. Fortunately, nobody was injured.