carmakers faced bankruptcy all the time
and this state of affairs can often be
traced back to poor design choices hi
I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
checking out some hits and misses mostly
mrs. in car design the AMC Javelin the
javelin is one shining star in an
otherwise less than stellar catalog of
car designs for AMC it helped boost the
company’s image at least for some time
and was known as one of the best looking
cars of the 1960s designed to compete
with such muscle cars as the Mustang and
the Camaro the javelin did well but
never matched its rivals numbers the AMC
Pacer another ugly tillett’s cute car by
AMC the Pacer has been called the worst
ever car design by some car enthusiasts
with fishbowl windows that magnified the
Sun and a practically non-existent
air-conditioning system summer months
were practically unbearable in a pacer
even so the Pacer has figured
prominently in pop culture acting as
Wayne and Garth Smith mobile in the
Wayne’s World movies Bob you mwah stop
it you’re scaring me the AMC gremlin the
AMC gremlin was the first u.s. built
subcompact the sprint to get this car to
market before competitors Ford and GM
may have resulted in a rush on the cars
design in short the gremlin is often
cited as one of the ugliest cars of all
time it is considered poorly designed
because of its odd proportion gremlin
like other unique cars had its share of
loyal followers who were convinced that
the car was ugly to the point that it
was cute the Ford Pinto the Ford Pinto
is well-known as one of history’s
biggest car fails and not simply because
of its poor design it has had several
nicknames death on wheels or the
barbecue that seats for are a few of the
worst basically if you got rear ended in
a Pinto the car might explode and you’d
be trapped it’s gas tank was located
right behind the rear bumper and the
doors had a tendency to jam when struck
from behind the real problem with the
Pinto came when Ford allegedly
calculated the cost of redesigning the
car versus the costs from potential
lawsuits DeLorean dmc-12 with its
gullwing doors and unpaid
stainless steel body the dmc-12 was
unlike anything that had come before it
or since the dmc-12 is considered a fail
mainly because of the troubles suffered
by the DeLorean Motor Corporation and
not due to the cars design aesthetically
however the dmc-12 is no fail it has
found its way into several popular films
including Adam Sandler’s the wedding
singer but it’s best known use was in
the back to the future trilogy as a time
machine and in the words of Doc Brown
way I see it if you’re gonna build a
time machine it work highway not do it
some style
and this state of affairs can often be
traced back to poor design choices hi
I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
checking out some hits and misses mostly
mrs. in car design the AMC Javelin the
javelin is one shining star in an
otherwise less than stellar catalog of
car designs for AMC it helped boost the
company’s image at least for some time
and was known as one of the best looking
cars of the 1960s designed to compete
with such muscle cars as the Mustang and
the Camaro the javelin did well but
never matched its rivals numbers the AMC
Pacer another ugly tillett’s cute car by
AMC the Pacer has been called the worst
ever car design by some car enthusiasts
with fishbowl windows that magnified the
Sun and a practically non-existent
air-conditioning system summer months
were practically unbearable in a pacer
even so the Pacer has figured
prominently in pop culture acting as
Wayne and Garth Smith mobile in the
Wayne’s World movies Bob you mwah stop
it you’re scaring me the AMC gremlin the
AMC gremlin was the first u.s. built
subcompact the sprint to get this car to
market before competitors Ford and GM
may have resulted in a rush on the cars
design in short the gremlin is often
cited as one of the ugliest cars of all
time it is considered poorly designed
because of its odd proportion gremlin
like other unique cars had its share of
loyal followers who were convinced that
the car was ugly to the point that it
was cute the Ford Pinto the Ford Pinto
is well-known as one of history’s
biggest car fails and not simply because
of its poor design it has had several
nicknames death on wheels or the
barbecue that seats for are a few of the
worst basically if you got rear ended in
a Pinto the car might explode and you’d
be trapped it’s gas tank was located
right behind the rear bumper and the
doors had a tendency to jam when struck
from behind the real problem with the
Pinto came when Ford allegedly
calculated the cost of redesigning the
car versus the costs from potential
lawsuits DeLorean dmc-12 with its
gullwing doors and unpaid
stainless steel body the dmc-12 was
unlike anything that had come before it
or since the dmc-12 is considered a fail
mainly because of the troubles suffered
by the DeLorean Motor Corporation and
not due to the cars design aesthetically
however the dmc-12 is no fail it has
found its way into several popular films
including Adam Sandler’s the wedding
singer but it’s best known use was in
the back to the future trilogy as a time
machine and in the words of Doc Brown
way I see it if you’re gonna build a
time machine it work highway not do it
some style
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