Gotta go with the good ole Pontiac ***-Crack on this one for the worst looking. Worst built might be the Ford Explorer (how many recalls from faulty wiring, to faulty electronics, to faulty tires).

 

Tamas, I seem to recall reading a while back that you're Hungarian, correct?

I spent a few months in Hungary one summer, and the family I stayed with had one of those Easter Bloc/Soviet built cars. I was trying to remember what it was, but that gets my vote. A deathtrap on wheels.

 

Here in Australia, the official worst car ever built was the Leyland P76.... this thing was a lemon.... it sucked monumentally.

Coincidentally, it shares the same distinction with the Rx8 for having won Wheels Car Of The Year...... let's just hope a couple of years down the track, we don't discover that the 8 really turns out to be a lemon.

 

Ohh boy....you have no idea how much pain you have just bought upon yourself!!
HYMEE, Oh HYMEEEE......

 

I concur. That and the Pontiac Fiero.

Any car that is prone to catching on fire is always on the top of my worst car list.

 

Pontiac Acadian

 

Was it the Pinto or the Yugo that was buy one get one free?

Which ever one that was had to have been bad!

 

Yep, you're right.

Yes, they were really bad... my very first car was a Lada 1200 (it was 10 years old when I got it and was a POS - probably even worse than a Trabant).
I can't tell how big of a joy it was then to buy my first REAL car - a 15 months old Volkswagen Golf. I was in heaven

 

Chevy Citation

 

for all the Assstek haters....http://www.lateral-g.net/aztec/ unbelievable what GM can do when they're ragged on enough lol

 

.....please elaborate? Do you beg to differ?

 

No, not really......but the following is a quote from a thread entitled, "What did you drive before the RX-8"?.
Oh, and here's a pic of Hymee's beastie :D

Gomez

 

Stock Datsun 240Z in-line six.

 

What about the AMC Matador or the Gremlin....did amc make a good looking car ever?

 

They did have the AMX or Javelin, those wre pretty sweet.

 

I get a chuckle as I read this thread. Some of those cars were real duds......

I wonder, if I were on the automotive design team that worked on those cars, do I admit it? ever?

hahaha

 

I have not seen anyone mention this old unforgetable the chevy VEGA ! Now that was one of the all time worst, although mine really wasn't all that bad. Of course it was a gaint step up compared to the PACER I owner right before it. Both mid-late 70's

And come to think of it my wife inherited a cimmaron and it was nothing but trouble too.

At least I have a good car now