I have a very superficial knowledge about these, to be honest, but I can imagine that being the case. One thing I love about the Tourist is the fixed mudguard integrated into the body. It likely made them sturdier and maybe even helped with fuel efficiency while probably also cutting manufacturing costs since there…

I love this, but the elephant in the garage will always be the Italdesign Axtec

What I love about that automotive era is that climate was a big factor: there was a dry spell immediately after the war, so scooters were actually quite practical year round (and useful for navigating bombed-out roads.)

How could you not want a car/boat/plane that “can do anything you want it to”? Classic styling, seats four comfortably; I think it was even a manual?

This could have been so good, and maybe even resurrected Lancia to something more than what’s currently left of it.

It’s actually quite comfortable!... Because it’s a front-wheel drive car, there’s no tunnel, so there’s a ton of leg room...

No. Everyone involved, maybe. But the beetle? What the fuck?

Bear with me here, but:

Even “bad” cars have their merit. Boring cars have their upsides. If we were going to erase a car, then it would have to have had damaged the automobile landscape forever. There was nothing more damaging that this:

No this shouldn’t be erased from history. Our Hubris should be known. We should look at this picture every day when the water wars are raging. When the planet is a burnt out desert with no ozone layer we can think of just HOW FUCKING BIG cars needed to be to get groceries.

This is more of an overall body style than a particular model, but I guess the BMW X6 started the trend of fastback crossovers.

Bad take. Without Tesla we would still be waiting for the “big 3" to release an electric car. Before Tesla there was not a single Electric car i would ever consider driving. By showing the world that electric could be stylish, fast, and easy enough to own Tesla kicked the auto world into the next century.

I’m going to go with those awful Malise-era GM diesels. The ones with the 350 small block “converted” for diesel use.

Hummer H2

As bad as the PT Cruiser was, the Chevrolet HHR was more shameful. GM literally just hired the designer from Chrysler and had him make an even uglier version of the same car 5 years after the original was surprisingly popular.

I would go with the 90s Explorer for basically the same reason. It was credited with kicking off the SUV crazy.

Its not the first Massive SUV, but I think that Suburbans really opened the door to todays monster SUV/Truck craze. There were other massive trucks you could buy at the time but these had AC Auto gearboxes, could be had with leather seats Etc. So it told people that now you can be the biggest thing on the road... and…

Mrs PunkRock’s Mini Cooper convertible (that she has nicknamed ‘Anderson’) has less storage space that the Subaru 360;

Okay, I trust your judgement here and will accept this as a ruling.

I used to ride in the back luggage well of my dad’s ‘68, too!