Most of us spend at least somewhere between 30 to 120 minutes inside a moving motor vehicle every single day. These mechanical marvels are what allows us to commute from home to work, and travel pretty much anywhere our hearts desire. It’s very easy to say that cars are one of the clearest monuments to human ingenuity and our unique ability to shape the environment according to our needs.
Let us put aside the incredible invention of the car and the many subsequent improvements and advances that have been developed since. Throughout history, you will also find a collection of some pretty hilarious badly done cars and a “who’s who” of incredibly bad design ideas, that today, are nothing but shameful history stories behind some of the most famous car companies in existence. Sit back, put on your seatbelt, and prepare to drive through 30 cars that should probably have never been made!
1976 Chevy Chevette
Introduced in a full-color nationwide campaign in 140-50 of the country’s largest daily papers, the posters show the Chevy Chevette as a cute little car that’s very enjoyable to drive. While the American car did sport a great look, it had only 51 horsepower, which meant that it was probably better for looking at than actually driving, and was as slow as a fast snail. It was also extremely loud. The New York Times could only say the Chevette was “haphazardly made, sparsely trimmed and underpowered.”
The Chevette ultimately reached 2,793,353 sales for its entire production across the 12 model years 1976-1988 it had run for, meaning that it wasn’t such a disappointment sales-wise. It was definitely one of the cheaper cars on the market, but that also showed in the poor interior quality – with only 1 small speaker as the standard.