![]() ![]() Or the Metropolitan: ugly, but it got 30 miles to the gallon in 1959-when gas was four cents a gallon! Just what was AMC thinking? Then, later, when the Arab oil embargo finally did hit, AMC brought us the Matador, a huge hulk with a V8 engine-and ugly, to boot. ![]() And we can't forget the Concord: four-wheel-drive ugly hybrid car/wagon-and 20 years too early. This car was aerodynamically ugly 15 years before its time. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT FOR PRODUCT STRATEGY:ĪMC brought us the Pacer. So, for screwing up for 40 years, Ford gets the Lifetime Achievement Award for Degenerative Ugliness. It's beautiful-and what does it look like? The '56 Thunderbird. And now, of course, Ford is starting all over again. And when Ford was done with it, it had no personality left and nobody would buy it.and they had to kill it. Originally, the Thunderbird had everything-character, beauty, charm and pizzazz. But over the course of the late '50s, and especially the '60s, even more so in the '70s.and the '80s too.Ford turned the Thunderbird into the ugliest thing going. In 1956 Ford had probably the perfect, most beautiful car you could make. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR DEGENERATIVE UGLINESS:įord-for the Thunderbird. Here, then, are our first annual Official Car Talk Lifetime Achievement Awards. We thought that it was only appropriate, here at the end of the millennium, to give out a few awards to those individuals and companies who have achieved a certain status. Tom and Ray's End of the Millennium Lifetime Achievement Awards ![]()
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