The Pacer was on Studabaker's drawing board when it went under .
And does anyone remember the Nissan Van ? Maybe not , because they were so bad Nissan issued a recall and bought everyone back and crushed them .

 

Worst car I ever owned was a 70 Maverick. Would not even pull its own weight up some steep grades in Arizona.

Had a friend who drove a 60 Corvair in college who claims it was sort of like driving a French Citroen 2CV, aka the "Douche-ah-vow".

 

What's funny is that the #1 car, Pontiac Aztek was actually a VERY reliable car.
Everyone that I've talked to that owned one or knew of an owner said the samething.
It was just ugly as sin and wasn't received very well because of it.

The Charlies Angel secretary Mustang was the fugliest flop pony car of all time IMO.
The infamous Pinto-Stangs.......

 

My worst was a 1973 AMC matador. Ran fine up to 50k then parts started falling off

Second place was a mazada RX7 went like stink but went thru 3-motors on warranty sold it with the last new engine in place

 

I'm guessing that maybe you drove the pi** out of those motors?

 

I'm sorry?

Nader had nothing to do with the Edsel.

Here's a question posted to everyone:

What do you care what a website says in their "listicle?" They're never spot-on, and listicles by nature are created for us to discuss them, giving them credence. I don't need anyone to tell me what the worst car ever is, and the Aztek is just too easy . . . and its only sin was being ugly besides.

 

You just answered your own question.

It's winter, alot of guys are not able to work on their cars so kill time talking about cars.

 

You're thinking of the Chevy Corvair and Nader's book "Unsafe at Any Speed" which came out in 1965.

The Edsel was not an intrinsically bad car. It was just introduced at the wrong time. The economy was weakening in the late 1950s, and there wasn't enough demand for another sort-of-high-end full-size car to go up against Pontiac and Dodge. I've done some reading up on this from literature at the time. Ford felt it had nothing between the Ford brand itself and Mercury, which it saw as below Oldsmobile and a competitor to Buick. At the time, Buick was below Olds in the GM hierarchy, again, at least according to articles analyzing the Edsel on its introduction I've read.

There also was some love-it-or-hate-it towards the horse-collar grill. But Edsels had powerful engines for the time and might have made it, or at least lasted longer, had the times been different.

The highest-end Edsels for 1958, the Corsair and Citation, came standard with a 410 cubic-inch, 346 hp V8. Compare that, for instance, to the top-of-the-line Olds engine that year, which was a 371 cubic-inch, 312 hp V8.

As Diego says, though, Ralph Nader had nothing to do with the demise of the Edsel.

 

Not really . . . I don't see much point in being aroused by a poorly thought-out article.

 

Well remember, there's more then just one person's POV here in a discussion.

Articles are meant to rouse discussion......pure and simple.

 

Thanks for keeping me in check.