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- From: tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Worst Car Award
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:58:08 GMT
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- c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
- >
- >Some car magazine I checked during lunch actually discussed the ugliest
- >car ever made, and I think the winner (by leaps & bounds) was a
- >French car, I think a Renault 6. Or, any Citroen (i.e. 2CV to CX)
-
- French cars have a totally different aesthetic, I don't think it's fair
- to compare them if you don't speak fluent French and enjoy dry red wine.
- Also, the 2CV is a Renault, not a Citroen.
-
- Why has nobody mentioned what, to me, seem like the quintessential ugly
- cars: the AMC Matador, the AMC Gremlin, and the AMC Pacer? I don't think
- the Pacer is that bad, but other people do. The only cars that come close
- to Matador/Gremlin ugliness are the Buick Roadmaster/Chevy Caprice series.
- Pound for pound they may be a bargain, but people buy meat-- not cars--
- by the pound. I was really surprised when I actually sat down in a Buick
- Roadmaster. The back seat is cramped and lots of cargo space has been
- wasted with stupid side compartments. Just amazing!
-