What is the wosrt designed vehicle?

Question

i say its the PT cruiser.

Answer 1

Ford!! i heard its not 100% canadian owned.

Answer 2

Your question inherits 2 aspects and thus you are getting 2 types of answers here.
First, are you asking about the worst designed in the aspect of total design? IE: Body, Engine, Looks, Long-Lasting.
Or, are you asking about the worst designed vehicle in the sense of exterior body design only?

To answer the first aspect, I would have to say the Ford Pinto or the AMC Gremlin. Both cars were ugly as sin and had major mechanical defects that put their fuel lines to close to major heat sources and when they would get rear-ended, they would explode.

To answer the second aspect, I think the Toyota Echo or the Honda Insight are both hideous for the Japanese cars.
The PT Cruisers rear-end and the Chevy HHT are both desperate, but failing attempts by the two american companies trying to resurrect the old days and their sales..
As for european cars, the Skoda Roomster (http://www.skoda-auto.com/global/model/roomster/homepage/) is something to laugh at as well as the Volkswagon Beetle.
Most of the ugly cars we choose now were brought out as trend cars...in which the trend faded fast...but not fast enough in the case of the PT Cruiser, b/c now there are so many driving around, stuck with them.

P.S - Amen to the person who indicated the Pontiac Aztek...they made a vehicle strictly for camping???

Answer 3

I can tell you are young. The Chevrolet Vega was the very worst vehicle in the history of all mankind in design and execution. Everything about it was bad. It was ugly; it was s-l-o-w; the 'newly designed for the seventies' engine was absolute junk,(thousands and thousands of them blew up because of a cooling and oil port design flaw in the aluminum head -- so many in fact that Chevy threw in the towel toward the last phase of the model run and began installing a ten year old engine design just to get them out of the factory doors); the bodies were slapped together and sold with trim pieces falling off, doors that wouldn't close and windows that fell off the tracks with abandon. The final insult to the automotive world was the fact that the cars would literally rust sitting on the showroom floor. It's as if GM set out to convince everyone in America to buy Japanese imports, which we did in droves.

Answer 4

YUGO
FIAT

If you ever have tried to work on any of these you would have
developed a new vocabulary of cuss words

The YUGO would not warranty the clutch when the car was NEW
the average life of the clutch was 12,000 miles,however if you got 3,000 miles on it you were lucky

For FORD it wasn't the Pinto it was the FALCON.Fuel pumps on those were bad right from the factory

My Pinto ran for every

For Pontiac it was the TEMPEST with the aluminum block
For CHEV it was the CORVAIR the Eng oil seal leaked after 100 miles.It tried to compete with V W NOT

For German cars it was the BORGWARD they also tried to compete with V W NOT
I took the Borgward motor out and put in a V W engine it ran forever

Plymouth it was the FURY push button shifting

well can't think of anymore this is my list

Answer 5

If you are only taking style, that is a big debate. If you are also taking dependability that too is up for grabs. Modern wise, I'd have to nominate the Ford Focus on dependability because it is the most "recalled" car ever sold in the U.S. to date. Doesn't say much for design, even though I love the styling of both 2 and 4 door models. For "bad" design of older cars I have to nominate the Tatra. That is the V-8 rear engine car from I think Checkoslovakia from the 30's up until a few years ago. They had such a horrible weight balance problem with all the weight being the rear end and such power that Hitler actually issued an executive order forbiding German officers from driving them from captured terriroties in WWII. Too many of them were getting killed spinning out of control on icy roads. Those things would go like all hell, but couldn't corner worth a squat. Style wise I think nothing beats the old AMC Pacer. First time I saw one the new "proud" owner showed me how the door panels were way above the doors as the windows don't go but a short way into the door and because you needed something to rest your arms on they simply raised the door panel way up above the top of the door. Second the passenger's door is way longer than the driver's door. That was supposedly done to allow easier access to the back seat, that also had the roof canted at such an angle that you couldn't sit upright back there anyway so who cared how easy it was to get in or out. The car was designed for a short small rotary engine, but when AMC couldn't afford one they shoved in the long tall 6 cylinder that went way up into the dash area well under the windshield. You could barely see the back of the motor. Windows that were way too big for the car, option for a "wood grained" siding, and like the gremlin the back end stopped at the rear axle making anybody riding back in the rear get kicked in the butt each time the rear wheels hit a bump. Yeah, I've seen some ugly ones, but nothing that left me speechless like that one. hahahahahahahah

Answer 6

what was wrong with the PT cruiser. there are some truly bad cars that could be considered the worst designed vehicle. like the chevy corvair

Answer 7

To my experience I would have to say Volkswagen anything! I had a brand spanking new bug and within a year it just stopped working for no apparent reason...my friend bought a passat and had the same thing happen to him...it's really insane and I'll never own another one

Answer 8

i think the chevy HHR is like a 10 times uglier version of the PT cruiser that would be one of the contender, i also hate the scion box one (looks like a toster)

Answer 9

anything out of a Saturn Factory along with the FJ cruiser by toyata, anything from a pontiac factory and umm all pick up turcks

Answer 10

Any Ford newer than 1960

Answer 11

toss up between PT Cruisor and the old time Volts wagon van... like the Mystery Machine thing lol