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The Not so Cool Cars of the Last 30 Years

  • Camaro Iron Duke

    Camaro Iron Duke
    Packed with a whopping 90 horsepower and a powerful 2.5L four-cylinder engine, the 1982 Camaro Iron Duke was in a word, weak
  • Pontiac Fiero

    Pontiac Fiero
    Despite making Car and Driver's 10 best list of 1984 and being the test car of the Indianapolis 500, the Fiero soon fell under scrutiny due to questions over performance, reliability, and safety. Pontiac's bold attempt to revive the two-seater was off the market in five years.
  • Lamborghini LM002

    Lamborghini LM002
    Gotta love a dune buggy that comes fully packed with a V12. Nicknamed the "Rambo Lambo", this car was a colossal failure that only gained real publicity when it was blown up by Uday Hussain to demostrate the effects of a car bomb. Not a sweet ride
  • GM EV1

    GM EV1
    The GM EV1 was a revolutionary vehicle that ushered in the dawn of electric cars and gave out zero emissions. It turned the page on the stone ages of gasoline and re-established America as an innovator in the car industry. Problem is none of that actually happened
  • Plymouth Prowler

    Plymouth Prowler
    Some sort of hideous combination of retro and futuristic swamp vehicle, the Prowler looked absurd and gave little in the way of performance making it a bust and not exactly sending Plymouth out with a bang
  • Fiat Multipla

    Fiat Multipla
    Not exactly sure what was in the wine grapes up in Turin for this one. A tried and true model for Fiat, the 98 Multipla was like a dimented mini double-decker bus. With a raised windshield and miniscule wheels, it resembled some kind of ugly critter on the road.
  • Ford Excursion

    Ford Excursion
    Right in time for gas prices to take off, the Ford Excursion entered with its revolutionarily bad 14 miles to the gallon earning it the Exxon Valdez for worst fuel economy. At a whopping 19 feet long and 6.5 ft tall, the Excursion could beat the crap out of your car but do little else
  • Hummer H2

    Hummer H2
    Anything you can do, I can do better. The H2 blew the Excursion away by guzzling oil at 10 miles to the gallon. Released after 9/11, the H2 was awesome if you planned on running the entire Middle East into oblivion by yourself but back here in America where you usually didn't have to mount an RPG, it was a joke.
  • Chevy SSR

    Chevy SSR
    A pick up truck is cool. A convertible is cool. A hotrod is usually cool. A weird, dimented combination of the three is not.
  • Saturn Relay

    Saturn Relay
    This is an ugly and low-tech van for a 1985. Doesn't help matters that it's a 2005.