Testing the most emberrasing car ever made.

Started by Blazer, May 05, 2009, 09:07:15 AM

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Barklessdog

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May 05, 2009, 09:49:09 AM
Why is it embarrising, other than being pink?

No worse looking than all the other micro cars

I think the Smart Car is worse.


TBird1958

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May 05, 2009, 09:59:10 AM

Nothin' wrong with that car............I'd drive it

Pontiac Aztec..........................That's quite another story.
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uwe

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May 05, 2009, 10:49:04 AM
I'm sure that sort of venomous pink will find some (girl-)friends in the envisaged market. I just shudder to think how an intensive color like this one will look sun-bleached and worn in a few years from now.

No one in his (read: her) right mind buys a convertible not to be noticed. That little car does it pretty effectively. Who cares if it wobbles at high speeds with the top off? It's a car to take you from one shop in town to another at 30 mph with the wind playfully carressing the driveresses long hair ...
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May 05, 2009, 11:38:11 AM
Quote from: TBird1958 on May 05, 2009, 09:59:10 AM
Nothin' wrong with that car............I'd drive it

Pontiac Aztec..........................That's quite another story.

I test drove an Aztec before I bought my Vue.  It wasn't too bad.  The interior was actually pretty cool.  My boss has one.

You want embarassing?  My dad had a bare-bones Gremlin. 
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Barklessdog

#5
May 05, 2009, 11:46:07 AM
At least the Gremlin had a cool little cartoon character on it.

The AMC Pacer is up there as well, really any AMC car from the 70's to 80's.

Dave W

#6
May 05, 2009, 12:02:58 PM
Looks like somebody at Nissan had Pepto-Bismol on the brain (or small intestines).

Embarrassing? Let's not forget the Goggomobil Transporter. Or the AWS Shopper that used the mighty Glas/Goggomobil 300 engine.

the mojo hobo

#7
May 05, 2009, 03:19:55 PM
Quote from: TBird1958 on May 05, 2009, 09:59:10 AM
Nothin' wrong with that car............I'd drive it


You'd need a Thunderbird in that color too!

Highlander

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May 05, 2009, 04:15:52 PM Last Edit: May 05, 2009, 04:21:23 PM by Kenny-Murdo'
When Mark mentioned the Aztek, I just had to go look... NASTY...

This came up as a primary link - the worst fifty of all time, by Time mag...

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1657686_1657662,00.html

Dave... how did the Goggomobil (sounds like some place in North Wales...!) miss the cut...?

Barkless... You'll find the Pacer on this list... I agree with you re the "Smart" (which my daughter christened the "Dumb" car and the name stuck with us) - they frighten the heck out of me when I see something that "fragile" overtaking me doing more than 80mph...! at that speed there would only be a tragic sudden stop with imo very little chance of survival...

Just one thing wrong - no BMW "Bubble" car...?  :puke:

Ps Mojo... A pink T'bird would just not go with her hair...  ;)
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#9
May 05, 2009, 05:18:03 PM
Quote from: Kenny-Murdo'Dave... how did the Goggomobil (sounds like some place in North Wales...!) miss the cut...?

I think when they upped it to 20hp. That gave it blinding speed to go along with its good looks.  ;D

Highlander

#10
May 05, 2009, 05:24:55 PM
Sorry Dave, goes to show how little I know of the automotive industry... ;)
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TBird1958

#11
May 05, 2009, 05:53:32 PM

You really have to wonder what the hell was going on in the design commitee room when GM said: OK! this is it, lets build the Aztek!...................Musta been some really good drugs.

Quote from: the mojo hobo on May 05, 2009, 03:19:55 PM
You'd need a Thunderbird in that color too!

Perhaps the BachBird if it shows up in white.
I got your pink hair.............Sometimes it's really good to be me  ;D
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Highlander

#12
May 05, 2009, 05:56:29 PM
Oops... I always thought they wuz purple streaks... mind you, my wife and daughter usually have to kick me to notice their hair mods, and I can't be accused of having quite as much as you...  ;)
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Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

TBird1958

#13
May 05, 2009, 06:14:02 PM

I have purple too.............

Have to order some emerald green tho  ;)
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Dave W

#14
May 05, 2009, 10:19:48 PM
One of my neighbors had an Aztek. To me, the back view of it looked like a van body dropped on top of a car.
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