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Dodge Nitro
It’s difficult for British people to fully comprehend how a car like the Dodge Nitro can exist in the 21st century. It is nigh-on impossible to drive due to the driver’s footwell being made almost entirely of transmission tunnel. It’s also noisy, appallingly finished and corners with all the composure of an Eighties pickup truck. All of which we’d overlook if it didn’t look like it was sculpted by a five-year-old with a bucket of clay and a house brick.
Porsche Cayenne Turbo S
The SUV market is big business these days, but only because it is a business tailoring lifestyle statements to suit the whims of Major League arseholes. Porsche’s Cayenne Turbo S is the epitome of this in car design, where brilliant engineering is being poured into making pointless, cynical toss on wheels.
Vauxhall Frontera (isuzu rodeo y uno que otro honda passport en tiquicia)
The lifestyle SUV wallowed into the British consciousness with the US-sourced Frontera, a comically incompetent soft-roader that lured cash-rich, taste-poor young tossers from their hot hatches into something more ‘individual’. Solid gold shit, it spawned a whole generation of the same.
Toyota Corolla
The most widely sold car in history is also a front-runner for the dullest. Since its loveless inception in 1966, the Toyota Corolla has existed purely as a grimly functional tool of transport. Over 35 million of them have been sold worldwide, reputedly at the rate of one a second for 40 years of its lifespan, a fact that causes every proper car lover to die a little inside.
Kia Rio
You can hardly be surprised to see a Kia in this illustrious list of lemons. That the company is enjoying a turnaround these days just makes how stunningly inept the Rio was all the more remarkable. It was slow, ugly and poorly put together using materials that look more carcinogenic than a weekend in Chernobyl.
Mercedes ML55 AMG
In order to save money, Mercedes decided to build the ML in Alabama. This overlooked the fact that it would, therefore, be built by Americans. The original ML was, therefore, one of the least reliable cars Merc has ever sent to market, and the AMG version was the most overpriced atrocity of the whole pitiful bunch.
Suzuki X-90
Few cars in history have been so utterly lacking in redeeming features. The faux-4x4-cum-coupe that was the X-90 failed in absolutely every respect of its design, neither being able to cope off road nor on it. There was no space inside for your pseudo-sporty lifestyle either, and the targa roof was a disaster.
Jaguar X-Type
There was a lot of marketing piffle when the X-Type was launched about how you could now get a Jag for ‘Mondeo money’. Ironic really – the X-Type was just a Mondeo, but more expensive.
G-Wiz (reva i en tiquicia creo)
Surely the inevitable choice at TopGear, but the G-Wiz may also be Mankind’s worst ever car. And that it dresses up its inadequacies with a tissue-thin veil of environmentalism only makes it more contemptible. For starters, it’s so slow you might as well walk, but it’s also lethally cramped inside and apparently both styled and assembled in the dark.
We crash-tested this one in controlled conditions. But the importers say the results don’t matter, since it’s classed as a quadracycle and therefore doesn’t technically need to be safe. That’s a relief...
