Gallery: The 25 Worst Cars Ever Made

Year: 1958
Complex Says: With an engine producing a whopping 14 horsepower that could take the Janus all the way up to 50mph, Zundapp created a car that was like riding a bicycle down a steep hill...but with slower acceleration. You can look stylish on a bicycle. But it's impossible to look cool trying to figure out which end of your stupid palindrome of a car you're supposed to get into.

Year: 1984
Complex Says: The Maserati Biturbo was not unlike a Faberge egg. It was cool, but so ridiculously fragile that it was best left in a glass case. It may have had a twin-turbo Maserati engine. But things would probably start leaking, cracking, breaking, and failing before the first oil change was due. Or in a strong wind. Or if the front passenger sneezed suddenly. Or if there was a dirt road. Or a cracked road, or rain. The Biturbo also started the trend that continues to this day of Masers with terrifically boring names. Biturbo means "two-turbos." Quattroporte means "four-doors." These, along with Coupe, are some of the least inspired names in automotive history.

Year: 1966
Complex Says: If Homer Simpson designed a microcar rather than a full size, he would have come up with this thing. It looks like a small motorized greenhouse in which clowns would grow their squirting daises. You can't beat a car where the crumple zone is called "patella."

Year: 1946
Complex Says: The King Midget was a glorified, 6hp, DIY golf-cart with turn signals. This reminds us of the "some assembly required" toys we got as a kid. Our parents couldn't assemble them properly, and they functioned as well as a solar-powered flashlight. Being smarter than the average weevil, we did not attempt to ride whatever that thing was down the highway.

Year: 1996
Complex Says: The Suzuki X90 could have been a direct competitor to the '96 Fisher Price Power Wheels Jeep and the '96 Fisher Price Power Wheels Big Jake Dump Truck. Sadly for Suzuki, the Power Wheels competition did much better sales numbers due to the much lower price.

Year: 1997
Complex Says: The Plymouth Prowler was Plymouth's last, sad grasp at life. The modernized hot-rod looks were cool. But the four-speed automatic transmission and anemic V6 made for a ride that would better be described as a tepid-rod. This is the automotive equivalent of bragging on the Internet about benching 400 pounds while sitting at home and struggling to bring more Cheetos to one's mouth. It's a shame Plymouth wasn't allowed to die with dignity.

Year: 1970
Complex Says: The AMC Gremlin looked like an AMC Hornet that lost its rear end in a tragic folding-chair accident. In reality, it was an AMC Hornet that losts its rear end in a tragic design accident. The above ad should have read: "Why is it when the other car companies come out with little sports cars, they come out looking good?"

Year: 1981
Complex Says: The Ferrari 250 GTO is a style icon because it not only looks beautiful, but because it has the substance to back it up. The Delorean, on the other hand is the kind of style icon that would say something like, “I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa.” (Thank you, Britney Spears!) The damn thing looked fast, but it did a 0-60 slower than an old VW Golf that's in serious need of an oil change.

Year: 1989
Complex Says: Well-meaning, but daft executives shoved a Frankenstein of an engine into an unreliable Dodge, then slapped a Maserati logo on the grill. Despite the fact that the available engines were made by Mitsubishi, Cosworth, IHI, Crane Cams, and Mahle, the valve cover had a Maserati logo on it. This horrific vehicle served to do nothing but embarrass both Maserati and Chrysler.

Year: 1973
Complex Says: At one point, somebody in the UK realized that he could sells three-wheeled cars to people who didn't have proper driver's licenses. After that epiphany, said person promptly stopped thinking and designed the Reliant Robin, which looks like a cheap clog that falls over while cornering at slow speeds.

Year: 1981
Complex Says: The Lada Riva was pushed out of the market by Daewoo, Kia, and Hyundai. Which is kind of like losing an MMA match to Stephen Hawking, Tinkerbell, and Paris Hilton's dog.

Year: 1971
Complex Says: Despite the fact that it sold very well, the Austin/Morris Marina was one of the worst-built cars ever to disgrace the road. In an effort to cut costs, British Leyland decided to cut the following from the features of the Marina: engineering, wires that were soldered rather than twisted together, quality, testing, and forethought. We at Complex give praise to the lads at Top Gear for dropping pianos on these cars in a brave crusade to rid the world of piss-poor automobiles.

Year: 1957
Complex Says: The Trabant was a communist crap festival made up of the recycled trash of the downtrodden masses of East Germany. The Trabant's shoddy construction meant that it would fall apart completely if any sort of speed was ever achieved. Luckily that was unlikely, as the wheezing 18hp engine allowed you to measure the car's 0-60 speed with an astrological calendar.

Year: 1981
Complex Says: Cylinder deactivation is a brilliant idea that may help save the supercar from extinction. However, in 1981, when the average upper-middle-class American didn't walk around with a dual-core CPU in his pocket, it was a terrible idea. The Cadillac Fleetwood V-8-6-4 not only suffered from a terribly jerky, bumpy, stuttering, noisy, burping, stalling ride on account of its main advertising feature, but it had a crappy name, too.

Year: 1975
Complex Says: Morgan is one of the coolest car companies of all time. These cars are made with ash frames, along with styling that hasn't been updated for so long that it is the main selling point. We call it driving now, but Morgan still calls it motoring. However, in 1975 emissions requirements forced Morgan out of the US market. A man named Bill Fink figured out a way to run the Plus 8's V8 on propane to allow it to be sold in the US. This dropped the horsepower from 190 to 150 and meant that there was a propane tank bolted to the back of the car.

Year: 1987
Complex Says: The "GV" in "Yugo GV" stood for "great value." We personally believe that the Serbian words for "great value" are synonymous with "cheap rubbish," just as they are in English. This is the only modern car we know that resorted to referring to "carpet" as a feature. The Yugo wasn't just brought down by offering a rubbish product, but also by UN sanctions, and a NATO bombing. At least it left a mark crater.

Year: 1956
Complex Says: And we quote: "A side impact by a bicycle totaled my Dauphine after only one year." Is there anything left to say?

Year: 1958
Complex Says: Colin Chapman, Lotus' legendary founder, once said, "simplify, and then add lightness." He also said, "we wouldn't put a washer underneath the head of a bolt; why do you want to take the washer around the track?" While this does make for wonderfully tossable cars, Lotus needed to be more careful not to remove major structural elements. The Elite's fiberglass body was so thin that the suspension mounts would eventually just pop right out the top of the car. A few washers would have helped.

Year: 1982
Complex Says: Camaro Iron Duke. Just say it aloud and try to think of anything other than the growl of a V8 and a cloud of tire smoke. Sadly, the Iron Duke was nowhere near as cool as its namesake. The problem was that the '82 Iron Duke was massively overpowered by other sports cars like the 1926 Stutz 8-Cylinder and the 1935 Auburn Speedster. The Iron Duke only made a pathetic 90 horsepower and took a shockingly slow 20 seconds to reach 60mph.

Year: 1920
Complex Says: We're not really sure this car deserves to be on this list, since it's arguably not even a car. It was marketed as a car. But we see it as a skateboard with an outboard motor.

Year: 1971
Complex Says: The Ford Pinto was a pretty good car. Considering that it was cheap ($1,850), one got a lot of car. Some people really enjoyed their Pintos right up until the crappy brakes failed and the car exploded. At that point, enjoyment stopped abruptly.

Year: 1960
Complex Says: The 1961 Chevy Corvair has quite a features list: uncontrollable oversteer, a steering column that impaled the driver in the inevitable crash, factory-installed oil leaks, gasoline fumes in the heating, an optional gasoline burning heater in the dash, and the ability to make people listen to Ralph Nader. It's too bad all of those features suck.

Year: 1911
Complex Says: In 1911, a man name Milton Reeves threw caution, sanity, deductive reasoning, engineering, and physics to the wind and created his masterpiece of wheel fetishism. However, nobody wanted one of these idiotic contraptions, and none were sold. Not being one to give up on a terrible idea when it's exposed for what it is, Reeves came back with the slightly less craptacular and infinitely more sexually names Sextauto. The Sextauto was way better than the OctoAuto that it replaced, in that it didn't have eight wheels. It had six, and was therefore still an epic brain fart. Unbelievably, Milton later went on to make a huge contribution to automotive engineering. He invented the muffler.

Year: 1971
Complex Says: The Motor Trend 1971 Car of the Year was, in retrospect, total crap. While the journalists at Motor Trend may have been oblivious to this, the engineers knew exactly what sort of horror they were going to release upon the world after only eight miles of testing, when the front of the damn car broke off.

Year: 1899
Complex Says: Before the general formula of the automobile had been figured out, people had some pretty daft ideas. The worst of the bunch was the 1899 Horsey Horseless. Uriah Smith of Battle Creek, Mich.--a man who had no understanding of horses, automobiles, or much of anything--designed this idiotic contraption in order to calm horses. Because of the severed horse head filled with a foul smelling, volatile fuel, "the live horse would be thinking of another horse and before he could discover his error and see that he had been fooled, the strange carriage would be passed." At this point, we assume that Uriah would have exclaimed "sucker!" and taped a "World's Dumbest Horse" sign to the butt of said equine servant. History, however, has proved that the horse was indeed the smarter of the two.