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Send in the Failcars!

I came across this little slideshow at some point and bookmarked it for later. "Later" would be now.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/1,28757,1658545,00.html

The 50 Worst Cars of All Time

Now, let me say that I hate internet slideshows with an all-consuming passion. And to have a slideshow with 50 slides is... well, wtf? But this one turns out to be worth the trip... because, apparently, it was written by someone slumming from Cracked. Only they had to leave out the cuss words.

A 3,200-lb. motorcycle with training wheels, a V8 engine and enough copper tubing to provide every hillbilly in the Ozarks with a still...

Though unworkable, this three-wheeled suppository was the boldest of a series of futuristic, rear-engined cars...

It wouldn't be the last time American car buyers looked at the future and said, "no thanks."

The most ineffective bit of French engineering since the Maginot Line...

Less a car than a 5th-grade science project on seed germination, the Peel Trident was designed and built on the Isle of Man in the 1960s for reasons as yet undetermined, kind of like Stonehenge...

You get the idea. There's even flying cars in there.

Well... unworkable prototypes of flying cars.

Dammit.