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Subsequently, the car garnered a reputation for several problems relating to its engineering, safety, and reliability.

Despite Chevrolet's attempts to improve the vehicle by recalling it several times, Vega's shortcomings damaged the company's as well as GM's reputation. One of the Ferrari cars that Clarkson has held a grudge against for many years is the F He has a problem with the model, which puts out horsepower to the rear wheels, according to BBC.

The Italian manufacturer produced fewer than examples to celebrate Ferrari's 50th anniversary. He complained about the loud engine, the car's vibration, and Ferrari's poor effort at replicating a road version of the Ferrari Formula 1 car.

Clarkson stated that the F50 was the "worst catastrophe from the company's history. Ford sold the car from to The American manufacturer marketed the Pinto as a two- and a three-door hatchback, as well as a two-door station wagon.

During the '70s, the car generated a lot of controversies regarding its safety. The media and the government panned the car after the fuel tank design was responsible for starting several fires during rear-end collisions. The incidents damaged Ford's reputation, and many academics have used Ford's response regarding the safety issues as a business ethics case study.

Although Clarkson thinks that the Cosworth is one of the worst vehicles made, he used to be an owner. When asked about his experience with the Cosworth, Clarkson replied, "Late at night, when all I wanted to do was to get home, it would be sitting there, angry and spoiling for a fight.

Despite Rolls-Royce's efforts to hand-build each vehicle to ensure flawlessness, Clarkson was unimpressed by the Corniche.

According to Clarkson, "Hand-built is just another way of saying the door will fall off. The model has a 6. The Corniche has an impeccable cabin, and the exterior design is breathtaking. Although the Corniche has exquisite looks, it fails to impress Clarkson, probably because Clarkson loves fast cars.

It seems that Clarkson found numerous American vehicles to be unimpressive. The car lasted only four years on the market and was a luxury vehicle that had a 7. Clarkson wondered how such a large engine could produce such limited horsepower. The American manufacturer averaged around 50, sold units annually but discontinued production in The Mark IV introduced, through the Mark series, the opera window, a feature that would remain until the discontinuation of the Mark VI after In the documentary, May attempts to parallel park the Saab between two cars.

The car had a Sensonic clutch variant that May used, resulting in him bashing one of the parked cars. The Sensonic clutch had a 'hill start' function, which assisted drivers to pull off uphill climbs by engaging the car's clutch to prevent rolling backward.

The feature proved to be unpopular, and Saab discontinued it after a stint. Clarkson and May autographed the car. Some drivers who want to get rid of their vehicles take the car to a junkyard or sell the vehicle. Clarkson hated the Yugo so much that he got a tank to blow up the vehicle to smithereens. The Yugoslavian manufacturer exported the vehicle to North America from to but had produced the vehicle for more than four decades abroad. The Yugoslavian manufacturer produced almost , units during the car's production run.

The car achieved symbolic status in the former Yugoslavia. While watching The Worst Car in the History of the World, I was convinced Clarkson would name the Polonez as the worst car, especially after he expressed his feelings about the car in a Top Gear article. But the worst car in the world to actually drive was the FSO Polonez.

Or much content. Now it's your turn - we want your nominations for the most hideous clangers of the last 20 years. One of the greatest names in auto history, Lancia had its reputation nuked when its cars began rusting while still sitting in UK showrooms. That was in the Seventies. By the Nineties, some would say that calling your last-gasp UK-market turnaround hope the Dedra was something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Not a truly terrible car in its own right, but a symbol of what happens when a big car company - here, Fiat - eats its own. The Pontiac Aztek is unquestionably the ugliest car of the past 20 years, but it was never sold in the UK so we can't include it.

The Dodge Caliber, on the other hand, was on sale here, and while substantially less visually offensive - despite its pseudo-SUV styling - misses the mark by a similarly heroic distance.

Kind of like Kid Rock in car form, although marginally less annoying. If you need us to justify its inclusion here, you are not only reading the wrong mag, you are living on the wrong planet. Even Ferrari and Pininfarina couldn't come up with a folding hard-top on the California that avoided Fat Arse Syndrome, so what chance did Nissan have with the Micra? As much fun as sticking chilli-infused toothpicks in your eyes.

The Vectra was so mediocre that JC refused to drive it. The resulting six minutes of telly is classic, both cementing his status as a broadcasting deity and ensuring that he would never again be able to buy a kebab in Luton. Not a bad car, but certainly a cynical one, which is probably worse.

Actually, come to think of it, it was pretty bad. The H3 is another cynical marketing wheeze from GM, surely one of the world's most comically misguided corporations. It was allegedly the small Hummer, whose ladder-frame chassis and leaf springs consigned it to on-road hell, and gave you some idea about its overall ambition.

Not bad off-road, but who cares? Now condemned to an afterlife as a stretch limo for hen nights. Unfortunately, the gap between fantasy and reality proved to be more a chasm. Once removed, those bits of roof had nowhere to go, apart from the back seats, which was problematic if they happened to contain people.

All in all, a car that was as useful as a chocolate teapot. Witnessing the prolonged death rattle of Britain's last volume car manufacturer was one of the less enjoyable aspects of the past decade.

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