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There are many lists of the worst cars of all floating around the internet time, but we want to focus on what we think is a most egregious failure than turning just a bad car.
What separates the bad as in the worst stupidest In our opinion, the stupidest cars inflicted on the pubis are those leaving would-be customers say What were they thinking what are the cars and trucks, which are largely the result of the colossal nonsense management hubris, incompetence of the ego-manic and organizational inertia.
The poster car for bad cars is the Ford Edsel It practically defines failure, but it is not on our list, because we thought that the Edsel was the result of poor if well-intentioned, the process product development at Ford in the 1950s, the Edsel failed in the market because it was too conventional style as Ford had been hyping for months as a new kind of car the name Edsel didn t help it was a kind of Saturn's day - though less successful - a regular car hyped beyond all common sense, but the pickup Lincoln Blackwood, who did make our list, failed because some high ranking leaders defied all entries, they got engineers, accountants and even public relations people said the product would be a fiasco Why because they wanted Dumb.
No Yugo, not AMC Pacer and no Ford Excursion on this list were bad These cars produced well-meaning enterprise systems They just turned evil that will happen.
The 1990 Chrysler Imperial is on our list Why Because the legendary Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca stuck his nose in the product development design dome and destroyed what was to be a car and marginally good in a bad joke.
Autoblog editors to put our heads together to find the 20 Dumbest Cars of all time.
There was room on the road for the PT Cruiser, a retro style buggy that hearkened back the day led only men, and when they did, they wore big hats But the PT Cruiser was more of a vehicle fashionable a real star performer.
So Chrysler thought it might as well as create a convertible version with four seats, which never caught fire with the older baby boomers who flocked to the original PT Cruiser Perhaps the worst on convertible model was the support bar in the car like a roll-bar When the roof is raised, the bar remained clearly visible, as a reminder that all convertibles are driven up and down at best.
The car's proportions were destroyed by cutting the top, allowing it to compete with the Pontiac Aztek for the most miserable piece of rolling sculpture of the decade.
Why is he so stupid designers and engineers have seen how terrible sketches in this car would look when the cloth was applied on the roof, but a combination of German and American leaders actually agreed it was worth it though there was no profit in it because every PT Cruiser should be delivered to a supplier company to have the top cut and the new hood installed.
When Mercedes began offering the R-Class in 2006, it has marketed the vehicle as a multi-purpose vehicles or MPVs We also saw the sports cruiser language, family tourer and Grand Sports Tourer Although he has used these few Americans who still relish a break, he just aren t that many of them who wanted to plunk money down.
From the beginning, the R class seemed didn t belong to the rest of the Mercedes range, as the company bought the design of the shelf of another automaker and stuck in his showroom to complete an imaginary Niche Society announced there will not be a class 2 R 0 Good movement Dieter.
Why it is so stupid When it was developed, Daimler-Benz was led by Juergen Schrempp Somehow, Schrempp and the product manager got into their heads that what the United States needed and wanted was a kind of Euro-style wagon pretending to be a crossover SUV design and position of the car is flaccid US execs Mercedes-Benz the year it came out even griped privately reporters he was a monstrosity imposed on them to help fill Alabama assembly plant from the perspective of aesthetics, designers and rank files Benz were embarrassed again, cheese atop the company reversed those who knew him best.
The Chevy Vega may look good on paper to John DeLorean, who was the head of Chevrolet at the time, but the final model never met the hype.
A small car with a wheelbase of less than 100 inches, the Vega was a long hood, the short cover platform and a body tight in the bottom the sum of its parts were worse than any individual part search.
The body smooth lack detail and look chrome keys nailed in the end it proved the point that US automakers were not very good small cars.
He was supposed to set a new standard for Detroit as he did the opposite Ralph Nader wrote de la Vega is designed sloppily, unreliable and dangerous automobile hardly a good example in the production of small cars for the US industry Retrospective Time Magazine about cars called Vega a poorly designed infamous car to rust and Joe Sherman breakdowns 1993 book in the rings of Saturn said that by its third recall, ninety-five percent of all Vegas manufactured before May 1972 had critical security vulnerabilities.
Why is he so stupid GM was hot to enter the small car market is hotting against the Japanese and concerns about fuel prices it charged an internal team to deliver a world beater in 24 months Setting time limits on developing a world-class car is never a good idea to tell the best team to deliver a world beater, and say how long it will take to do it right.
The Dauphine came form the time being we snarky illustrates the French car manufacturing that followed World War II.
It was an in-house developed engineering period, had French and foreigners wishing those working to Peugeot and Renault would go to culinary school instead.
Road and Track tested the car back when Eisenhower was in the White House and reported that it took them 32 seconds to go 0-60 We're pretty sure most of us could beat this car on a bike .
But the world was hungry for cars, and Renault knew the quality bar has been set quite low The company sold more than two million of these coffins made of cardboard around the world, some of which were shipped to the US Frankophiles hopeless intention or die road or spend half their lives in their garage hovering over an oil stain.
Why is he so stupid Crappy, dangerous, prone rust, slower than the pulled pork Renault execs conspired to create cheap, bad cars spiking need in emerging markets, as well as his own.
Because H1 just wasn t enough for Rush Limbaugh crowd.
The Hummer H2 may be tempted to appeal to outdoorsy adventure seekers, but what attracted most were people who advocate tofu is prohibited by law.
In 2006, the H2, which ran on a 6-liter V-8 and later, the 6 2-liter V-8 and his brothers and sisters truck had become excess to American cars posters and insensitivity to environment Few other vehicles created such a visceral response other than the H2.
He was arrested in 2009, when General Motors filed for bankruptcy and has completely eliminated the Hummer brand.
Why is he so stupid GM launched the car after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, an attack against the United States whose causes are undeniably linked to America the centenary of the thirst for oil in the Middle East and apparent willingness of the country to do anything to keep it flowing West as cheap as possible.
The whole vehicle was in very poor taste, if we understand that there are many militia of the State and the World Wrestling Federation fans who think otherwise.
We kept our list mainly for real production cars marketed by real car companies, but we have included some experimental vehicles from the last century that represent these terrible ideas to include in our account.
This creature looking Tippy was built around a motorcycle, weighed 3,200 pounds and appeared as if James Scripps Booth publishing scion committed his plumber to design the exterior - what's with all the copper pipes does -it as obtaining water ice machine.
According to the Wall Street Journal by Dan Neil, it was the first motor vehicle ever built in Detroit V8 Even a bad idea was a useful aspect or two.
Why is he so stupid We know security was wearing a large premium design in the car it was 100 years ago, but seriously this thing that looks like a circus tour more personal transportation.
This car is so ridiculous that we could not include t The concept of inventor Uriah Smith, this buggy is designed to move people from the carriage era in the new century horseless carriage.
What idea bolting a leader at the front of the truck, turning the car into a kind of Merry-Go-Round Descent according to Time Magazine retrospective that has the car to our attention, Smith recommended to horse head hollow to maintain Genius gasoline.
Why is he so stupid Let's see bolting the head of a horse to soothe people's fear of the future can be electric car manufacturers should amplify the sound of a Shelby Cobra under the hood of a high high-fidelity loudspeaker.
Memo world auto executive When starting a new car company and proposes to name the car after himself, running like a deer in the opposite direction, lock your checkbook and credit cards in a safe and ask your best friend to keep the combination away from you, no matter how much you beg.
This scenario is running well but Malcolm Bricklin had some experience in co-founder of the original import business in the U S for Subarus.
Dealers and romantic are always eager to believe that a new car will be the next Toyota This is the secret of success after Subaru Bricklin emotional response too many of us have to enter the ground floor of something big, particularly the launch of a new sports car.
The SV1 had scissor doors 100 pounds, plastic body panels resistant to tooth and bumpers that have stood a flash, slow motor and no ashtray Bricklin has managed to produce more than 2,000 copies of this evil now head moderately collection that was never more than a car to drive so terrible it's proving ground tests took place in funeral processions.
Why is it so silly mid-1970s, the days of an entrepreneur being able to launch a credible car company were on dealers who lost money should have known better.
For those who like to park, the smart fortwo is the perfect vehicle However, if you have to drive anywhere, it won t be a fun trip.
The smart fortwo has arrived in America, after nearly a 10-year racing in Europe, but it came with an automatic transmission that was miserable, with big breaks and moving an engine of 1 liter of low power.
The bug car like looks and 8 feet 10 inches total length will get a lot of comments, but a car to interesting research still needs at least drive like a car the smart fortwo does not.
The Mitsubishi engine output of this day, which explains part of the story on why fuel economy is so lame for a car this small.
Why it is so stupid Intelligent whole division has never turned a profit for Daimler therefore, the lack of investment to keep the car to date.
Part of our history lesson, and nod to the experimental car horseflies twentieth century, Fuller Dymaxion is the opposite of Tucker, we called our list of twenty Smartest all time cars.
Designer R Buckminster Fuller originally designed this car as a flying car or an airplane, you can also drive to and from the local aerodrome wings of this beast, and it looks like an Airstream trailer or Hindenburg Choose It also sports that three wheels, a nod to its flight capacity Honestly, we wouldn t want to be caught flying or driving this Dinty Moore can.
Why it is so stupid We're back to the vehicle as the Multi-Tasker Syndrome It is quite difficult to design and produce a credible and reliable car, truck, aircraft or ship and put on the market trying to meet both a one package, and ask you mockery, ridicule and failure Dymaxion got three of us and the world.
Built on the legendary K-car platform that saved Chrysler in the 1980s, the platform and the package was quite obsolete by the time 1990 rolled again, designer Tom Gale and Chrysler President Bob Lutz was designed packaging to make at least respectable old guard Chrysler he wouldn t have been sexy, but wouldn t have been an embarrassment.
But Lee Iacocca strolled into the end design studio program and ordered, instead, the opera windows in the zone of the rear seats and velor velvet interior upholstery padded gave inside next to the Imperial stall a Turkish brothel.
Iacocca, for all of its business and a keen sense of public relations, have been barred from styling studios at this point Remember, he also gave the world the Mustang based in Pinto in the 1970s Perhaps that it is time to reassess the legacy of the Lido.
Why it is so stupid tasteless, led a project by an authoritarian CEO is bad business and bad behavior, not just a bad process.
Chevrolet SSR has answered the question never asked Who needs a pickup roadster convertible with retractable hardtop.
SRH, which means Super Sport Roadster, adopted a retro look with wings, sparkling small windows and a big V-8.
In the end, General Motors got the answer to his question about 25 000 people was arrested in 2006.
Why it is so stupid was never the business case for this vehicle upon a wacky idea of vehicle approved by former CEO Richard Wagoner Jr G so he could make his announcement during a conference of industry shortly after taking the office of the Chief He was supposed to show that he could take risks and think outside the box this thing should have stayed in the area.
The truth is that the Phaeton is a damn good Heck sedan, it shares a platform engineering with the Bentley Continental GT Flying Spur Another truth is that few people care about this because there is a significant gap for most buyers, either German or American, between spending something North 70.00 for a sedan and see the VW logo in the middle of the steering wheel.
The car was the brainchild of former VW CEO and current chairman Ferdinand Piech's supervisory board is the creator of small-son Volkswagen Beetle Ferdinand Porsche and Piech clan chief, who also control Porsche AG As of other words, what Piech wants Piech gets and he wanted a VW sedan that could rival Mercedes-Benz S class, BMW 7 Series Period the idea still strikes many as strange as Volkswagen AG also operates Audi, and so the Audi A8 to take the big boys, as well as Bentley, Lamborghini and Bugatti.
The announced goal was 20,000 sales Phateon worldwide a year The reality was approximately 6000 There was so little interest in the US for the car that former VW CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder yanked distribution United States, he did it without the consent of Piech, and it was a movement that, in part, the cost of the CEO his job now, this project his vanity.
Why is he so stupid as good driver that the Phaeton is, and was from the beginning, the number of people who want to spend more than 100K for a sedan loaded with a VW bag is pretty much limited to government leaders German and Piech family and staff a real vanity project by the president without anyone able to tell him he was off the path.
Ford CEO Jacques Nasser and its luxury brand chief Wolfgang Reitzle thought it was a great idea of a luxury Lincoln brand pickup truck with a trunk instead of a flat bed, and painting-scratch for imitate a serious business suit.
In the end, was still a pickup unless he came with a single set of black interior colors and outside the truck bed was actually redone as a trunk when the trunk lid that actually worked was okay for the treatment of luggage, golf clubs or skin diving kit - the stuff of marketing people felt the Blackwood customers, the two would be able to secure was also RWD only No -four-wheel drive meant that black bauble would be the equivalent of a dog paperback for the biggest jerks you can imagine playing golf with.
He was only a year 2002 model, thought it took three years to sell all products Blackwoods.
Why is he so stupid There was no support for this vehicle Ford below the executive suite He was one of those vanity projects hatched up, with middle managers, particularly at Ford, dissident only at their own risk and peril career.
Change is not always good enough to look at the Ford Mustang, 1974, the beginning of the second generation pony car.
But this Mustang has humble beginnings, as it was based on the platform of the Pinto to start - just not with the same explosive when pressed.
Things are getting worse not here, the Mustang II, as it was called, was smaller and heavier than its predecessor and does more harm to the nameplate that every Chevy never do.
Ford Motor Company President, the infamous Lee Iacocca who launched the original Mustang, took the decision to put this Mustang II production was designed to compete with the Toyota Celica To meet the new regs fuel economy, 2 had a 3-liter 4-cylinder engine producing 88 horsepower -cylinder less than a 600cc sportbike did during his five years now, Ford has sold over 1 million models Mustang II and it was even named car of the year from Motor Trend magazine in 1974.
These achievements have proved two things Many of the American public will, if you give them the opportunity to pay a lot of money for horse manure if you give the right name and color; MotorTrend and, back in the day, had to be commercially annual honors for ad pages that is not the case today, but at the time.
Why is he so stupid Iacocca launched an icon when he had the chance to lead the redesign, it cheaped on and against undercut one of the most famous cars and marks the twentieth century Ford engineers and managers knew it was a really bad idea to use the Pinto platform for a new Mustang They did it anyway management engineers on this project was like asking Michelangelo to paint the fence at the outside St. Peter's after the Sistine Chapel.
We are so happy that our friends Nissan has given us a new entry for 2012 that list the company made some fabulous cars Altima and Maxima GT-R, Z, seriously, we can recommend all of these vehicles.
But ask Nissan executives on the Nissan Murano CrossCabrio and we get the idea that we asked them for their crazy brother sleeping in the basement watching QVC for entertainment and keeps burning holes in its coverage with cigarettes.
My boys C is 2012 These types of errors and futile exercises to be completed, the CEO most of us think of as one of the top two or three most intelligent in the industry Carlos Ghosn says no only green-lighted this monstrosity, but ordered first.
Priced at 44540 and pitched as the first convertible crossover to hit the market, the car became a legend as one of the great scoubidous CEO of all time, maybe Blackwood travel for the honor of the 21st century Jac Nasser.
Why is he so stupid Nothing about this vehicle pencils price, nothing design The business case has never been through the process of honest business It could not have It was an intuition, and poor in that.
It was a bad idea that has worsened Pressed by CAFE standards and the fear of new small cars from Mercedes-Benz and BMW, Cadillac needed a small fuel efficient car to join its line- up so, GM took a Chevrolet Cavalier seriously, doubled its price by adding a bunch of standard features and called the Cadillac Cimarron.
The first Cadillac to come with a four-cylinder engine in seven decades, Cimarron lacked sophistication, solid performances or anything else the brand Crest-and-crown once stood for the car came with a manual transmission option four-speed if you can believe that adding insult to injury much of the Chevy brand it was a re-badged - a bad Chevy - and everyone knew that GM engineers were ordered to complete the brief hated work on it a little, they say, even took early retirement out of this automobile part flotsam was actually sold for seven long years.
Why is it so seriously stupid isn t enough they watched a Chevrolet Cavalier and saw a Cadillac hiding somewhere in there.
Here is another experimental car for our list because it shows the strange propensity for inventors and engineers to understand multitasking tasks for a car The Amphicar is a nod to the Volkswagen Schwimmenwagen developed by the Nazis during WW2 for amphibious landings.
Imagine Schultz drive the car on the bank of the river without having to find a boat and drive it out of the water on the other side without stopping What could go wrong.
Many The Amphicar is a terrible car crappy boat and it takes water quite easily and requires a bilge pump to keep it afloat There are a surprising number of over 4000 products between 1961 and 1968, still on the road or in garages and many marinas, maybe it is not so surprising if you own one of these barges wheels, you'll always tinkering with something to show it when you can.
Why it is so stupid a car, a boat and a trailer is a much better option and who need a car with his bare hands like this for an amphibious landing in the early 1960s, in addition to Thurston Howell III.
The road to hell is full of Pontiac Aztec It may be a crossover with good intentions, revolutionary interior design and not bad to drive, but it is pure ugly bumper to bumper in a mixture convoluted plastic, metal, glass and rear looks as if it was cut with a meat chopper.
The ribbed gray coating on the original 2001 model does seem worse than, Aztek most widespread, came in black and yellow Ticonderoga pencil sported coating It looked like a giant bee on the road.
A buyer could get an air compressor for inflating sleeping pad and the Car-connectable tent, four-wheel drive and a slew of other user-friendly features of the driver We loved the central console that doubled as a removable cooler but it's awful killed the Aztek in a generation and set General Motors in a decade when it came to the creation of large crossovers.
Why it is so stupid at the dawn of soaring crossovers, GM chose to build the Aztek on the platform of his minivan, the most spectacular and most terrible maligned minivan in non-industry unless you remember the GM minivans that looked like giant dust -busters yes, these minivans in 2000, months before the launch of the Aztek, the head of GM North America had already predicted failure of the vehicle to journalists was a tip-off GM execs cheaped here and driving a system minimized the influence of competent designers and maximized the impact of accounting that have sought to produce cars at the best cost.
Fewer cars hurt the perception of the tailgates America as the Ford Pinto, a car that made its debut with 75 horsepower engine with four cylinders.
In the 1970s, Ford Motor Co need something to compete with the Japanese compact cars and Volkswagen Beetle that grew in popularity Ford response was Pinto, a hatch in two chubby doors with low riding bucket seats Worse, Pinto spent the entire decade accused me of being a death trap explosion That never words every company wants to be associated.
Why it is so stupid is the Ford executives hubris brought to the table There is a paper trail leading to a memo in which the brass Ford weighed the cost-benefit analysis of engineering change of the car to make it more secure against pay our injury and death claims he knew would worst of all, the Pinto, partly because of its budget price, have been won by many a student and was one cars which eventually declining sales and popularity of the VW Beetle Thus, this car was aimed at less experienced drivers to America, and more prone to be in accidents and after the truth came out, it soured many of these children and their parents to buy more fords as Asians rose, and America definition of quality.
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