The AMC Pacer, a small hatchback that flopped into the market in 1975 and out by 1980, was judged to be the ugliest vehicle ever produced in the poll conducted by Hagerty Insurance.
The AMC Gremlin and Matador station wagon also made the ugliest list.
According to the survey, one respondent said:
"AMC's only conceivable excuse for this stylistic horror would be if their design crew was tripping on massive quantities of acid ... and even then, it wouldn't be a good excuse," reportedly wrote one emphatic respondent.
The Serbian-built Yugo came in at number two, a small two-door hatchback not radically ugly in and of itself from a distance, but became so close up, where the shoddy build quality could be seen plainly to all.
"The Yugo was a car that fell apart while you drove," reported another of the almost 2,500 total respondents to the survey.
President and CEO of the firm McKeel Hagerty told BusinessWeek magazine recently that the idea for the survey came about when he noticed that the value of "nerd cars" - which were generally the ugliest ones on the road - were rising in value.
The most modern vehicle to make the list was the much-maligned Pontiac Aztek, which bombed in the marketplace before its death in 2005, while the mechanically identical but more conservatively styled Buick Rendezvous is just now heading out of production.
The remaing car on the all-ugly list: Chevrolet Chevette, Ford Edsel, Chevrolet Corvair, Ford Pinto and Chevrolet Vega.
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