Every day we see a lot of different cars on the road. Some of them are to our taste and we envy their owners. Others, on the contrary, do not cause any positive emotions. However, if the vast majority of modern cars have a rather interesting design that seems beautiful to most motorists, then there are also car models that, with their terrible appearance and incredibly disgusting design, simply lead to bewilderment. Introducing the top 10 scariest cars in the world.
10. Ford Mustang (1969)
Scary for: passers-by and other drivers
The first generation Ford Mustang was produced by Ford from March 1964 to 1973. The appearance of the Mustang has created a new class of cars, known as a pony car. Mustang's style, with its long hood and short deck, proved wildly popular and inspired many competitors.
However, look at that. Sounds like an early Ford Mustang, right? So it is, at least from the outside. Inside, however, is only the Ford Falcon, a pedestrian car if it ever existed. Well, throw a V-8 at the Ford Falcon, and what do you get? An overloaded vehicle that does not have shock absorbers, brakes or structural rigidity to turn or stop well. In other words ... watch out!
9. Pontiac Trans Am (1969)
Scary for: passers-by and other drivers
When American automakers figured out how to make huge, powerful engines, unfortunately, they still didn't understand how to drive their brainchildren, so they got a powerful rear-wheel drive car without weight in the back. As a result, it is worth the earth to fall half a drop of rain, so this car will wrap itself up like a yule. That is why driving a Pontiac Trans Am (1969) in imperfect weather was simply life threatening.
8. Ford Pinto (1971)
Scary for: fire and plastic surgeons
The Ford Pinto is a small car that was manufactured and sold by the Ford Motor Company in North America from 1971 to 1980. Ford's smallest American car since 1907, the Pinto was the first subcompact manufactured by Ford in North America.
What could be worse than a car approved by both the fundraising department in the burn department and the League of Asbestos Manufacturers? These cars had an unpleasant tendency to explode when hit from behind, since it was there that the gas tank was located. Ford eventually solved this problem, but the damage was considerable by then.
7. Volkswagen Microbus (1973)
Scary for: drivers
There was a terrible idea: to design a car so that the legs of passengers were the very first line of defense in a head-on collision. A minibus, like a pizza box sticking up on end, circled the highway like Calista Flockhart in a wind tunnel. However, drivers never had time to worry about these problems - they were too busy trying to keep warm in a cold bus.
6. Volkswagen Thing (1974)
Scary for: onlooker
Volkswagen Thing is a four-door convertible with two wheels, manufactured and sold by Volkswagen from 1968 to 1983. Originally designed for the West German army, it also entered the civilian market as the Kurierwagen (“courier car”) in West Germany, Trekker (RHD Type 182) in the UK, Thing in the United States (1973-74), Safari in Mexico and South America and Pescaccia in Italy. Civilian sales ended after the 1980 model year.
Just take a look at that. Not surprisingly, the creators called it that. Volkswagen Thing was developed by the same designer who invented the cookie sheet. Fortunately, they rusted quickly enough, so very few owners of such models remained.
5. Chevrolet Monza (1980)
Scary for: Mechanics
The Chevrolet Monza was designed as an economy car, so it was built with a four-cylinder engine. Unfortunately, when sales slowed, some geniuses at Chevy decided that she needed a V-8, so they added its package bundle. What is the result? Up to half of the spark plugs are almost impossible to reach; to get to them, you need launching equipment and a pneumatic chisel. Whenever one of these beauties lifted her ugly grille in front of the garage, each mechanic with more than six weeks of experience ran into the men's room and locked the door.
4. Suzuki Samurai (1986)
Scary for: drivers
Roll over - this is normal if you have information about the crimes of Goldberg brass knuckles, and you are sent to the witness protection program. In this car, we roll at a speed of 110 kilometers per hour on asphalt, and turn off to go around a lost chipmunk. This option, to put it mildly, is not very good for adequate motorists. These cars were cheap, so they were mostly bought by young drivers - people who are likely to end up hanging on a four-wheel safety belt. Even worse was that the samurai was not much worse than other SUVs of that era.
3. Ford Festiva (1987)
Scary for: drivers
Take a good look at this car. Not much, is it? Now imagine yourself at a party surrounded by drivers of tractor trailers that have amphetamine snacks. Speed is 120 kilometers per hour. At night. Under rain. Not scary yet? It is unlikely to be an exaggeration to say that this car should be released directly from the factory with a funeral wreath on the grille.
2. Hummer H1 (2004)
Scary for: society, the environment and therapists
The Hummer H1 is an all-wheel drive SUV based on the M998 Humvee, which was created by AM General. The car was produced from 1992 to 2006 and was the first of what became the Hummer line. Originally intended exclusively for military use, the SUV was launched on the civilian market due to high demand.
AM General continued to build the H1 and Humvee at its plant in Mishawak, Indiana. GM stopped selling the H1 in the 2006 model year, but AM General continued to produce military versions of the Humvee.
When you stop thinking about what kind of person would buy Hummer, you begin to worry about the future of our country. The potential driver of this car is a person who feels so inadequate inside that he has to drive, pretending that the 82nd airborne landing will support him in the next dispute over a parking space. From an environmental perspective, Hammer burns resources as if tomorrow never comes. And if a sufficient number of fans of such cars will continue to buy them, then tomorrow really may not come.
1. Pontiac Aztek (2005)
Scary for: onlooker
Well, now we know where Volkswagen designers started working after VW mothballed its production. Look carefully at this car - this is a tribute to the art of unsuccessful compromises. Someone from GM said: “Take a minibus, cut a few corners and do something that we can call a company car.”
The machine itself was not bad - rather utilitarian, in fact, - while it made an undeniable achievement in the field of visual pollution of the environment.