The 70s Aston Martin Lagonda.
BIG, brutally ugly and awful electronics
HAS to be worlds most embarrassing to have owned and drive !!
"A woman without curves is like a road without bends, you might get to your destination quicker but the ride is boring as hell'
I feel like this poll won't be complete until an Englishman nominates a Reliant Robin.
Reliant Robin
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The Aston Martin Lagonda was a luxury four-door sedan (saloon) built by Aston Martin of Newport Pagnell, England, between 1976 and 1989. 645 examples of this model were produced and the average selling price was £150,000.
Aston Martin was about to go out of business in the mid-1970s and needed something to bring in some much-needed funds. Traditionally, Aston Martin had worked on 2+2 sports cars, but the Lagonda — the model being named after a grand sporting marque — was a four-door saloon with a brand new V8 engine. As soon as it was introduced, it drew in hundreds of deposits from potential customers, helping Aston Martin's cash reserves.
The car was designed by William Towns in an extreme interpretation of the classic 1970s "folded paper" style. It was as unconventional a design then as it is now. Car enthusiasts are fiercely divided on the car's aesthetic value.
Throughout the history of the marque, these hand-built Lagondas were amongst the most expensive saloons in the world. The only other "production" cars to approach its lofty price tag were the Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit/Silver Spur, Bentley Mulsanne, and Maserati Quattroporte.[citation needed]
A number of "series" were produced during the lifetime of the model, including a facelift in the 1980s which attempted to round off the car's razor-like lines and removed the troublesome pop-up headlights, which had proved unreliable.
The Lagonda was the first production car in the world to use computer management and a digital instrument panel, although the computers in many of the original cars are failure-prone. The development cost for the electronics alone on the Lagonda came to 4 times as much as the budget for the whole car. The second series used cathode ray tubes for the instrumentation, which proved even less reliable than the original model's LED display.
And exert from wiki and that is one ugly car...with aston amrtins hope pinned on that car no wonder they went broke.
Lifts heavy things and hits hard......also eats as much as 2/3 people and sleeps 10 hours a day!
The one they show there is the Series II, 3, or 4 I think, the Series I is a 4-door saloon based on the V8 model, only 7 or so built I think:
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<3 the 70s
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goggomobile...
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
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