10 - Chrysler PT Cruiser
Quite a number of old American cars were among the 309 that people nominated (although many received only a single vote). And this looks like an old American car. QED...
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9 - Austin Princess/Ambassador
Originally known as the Austin/Morris/Wolseley 18-22, it was subsequently rebranded as the Princess (the death knell for Wolseley as a brand name) and later facelifted as the Ambassador. Quite straightforward, really.
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8 - Hummer
Some think they look good on 20-inch wheels. Others think the stretched version has presence. We think they are ideally suited to a) the desert, their natural habitat or b) the crusher.
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7 - Ford Scorpio
The Granada and Consul had a certain cachet, partly embellished by their dual role as both chase and getaway cars in TV cop shows. Then Ford sacrificed all that muscular flair and created this. Good ones run forever, apparently.
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6 - AMC Pacer
Shorter than most other American cars of the late 1970s, but just as wide, the Pacer had the advantage of looking like nothing else on the road. It had the disadvantage, however, of looking truly hideous. Somehow, they flogged 280,000 of them.
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5 - Porsche Cayenne
A masterclass in engineering… but this predominantly V8-engined SUV solves all kinds of problems that don't exist. That said, it does have the ability to tear along at 140mph in areas that don't yet have speed cameras (fields, the River Spey, Ben Nevis, Blackpool beach – that kind of thing).
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4 - Austin Allegro/Vanden Plas
The same car in most respects, but one has a Rolls-style grille that looks rubbish on a compact saloon. Not actually as good as the Austin 1100 series that went before. And what was the point of a quartic steering wheel?
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3 - SsangYong Rodius
The original design brief, apparently, was to capture the essence of a luxury yacht. To gauge the success of this, we recommend the entire production run be shipped to the mid-Atlantic and dropped over the side.
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2 - Fiat Multipla
Derided for the blandness of its output during the 1980s and early 1990s, Fiat dared to start thinking outside the box. In this case, however, it simply added wheels to the box and chucked in a few curved balls.
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1 - Pontiac Aztek
When voting began, many of you possibly didn't know what an Aztek was. As a trickle of votes came in, however, people began searching Google's image database, eyes boggled, the floodgates opened and the Fiat Multipla's comfortable lead was pegged back.
Proof that Americans do ugly better than anyone else, the Aztek was General Motors' first mid-size "crossover" sport utility vehicle, based on a 1999 show concept with "Xtreme" styling. On sale from 2001-2005, priced from $21,445 with a 3.4-litre V6 engine and front-wheel drive or "Versatrak" 4WD, the Mexican-built Aztek was marketed as "quite possibly the most versatile vehicle on the planet", in other words the product of a cost-cutting committee's attempt to please as many people as possible. But designer Wayne Cherry (previously responsible the droop-snoot Vauxhalls of the 1970s) deserves most of the blame. There was also a GT version. Need we say more?
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