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| Gallery: Crap Cars |
| Car makers spend £billions perfecting their new cars. They spend literally years in development and with the millions of miles that will flow under the wheels of hundreds of prototypes, it's a wonder they have any faults at all.
Happily, while robots now build cars, they're still designed by humans and we still make mistakes no computer is going to pick up. In fact, the entire history of the automobile is strewn with the corpses of cars that came to market complete with a potentially fatal flaw already lurking under the metal...
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| AMC Pacer: its great design feature was to have a passenger door that was much longer than the driver's door so your children could safely and easily climb into the back. Great idea. But then they had the even greater idea of selling it in the UK with right-hand drive. Unfortunately they couldn't swap the doors over too, forcing your children to climb aboard on the same side as the traffic. |
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