45. Yugo GV
Do we start with the foolishness of the importers, who assumed that there was an American market for this two-door hatchback built in Communist Yugoslavia during the apex of the Cold War? Do we look instead to the original manufacturers, who believed that a car so poorly received in its freedom-lacking homeland could possibly succeed elsewhere? Or the later fools who bought the dang thing for a song and then discovered they had somehow been ripped off? We suppose it doesn’t really matter—at the end of the day the lack of performance and reliability combined to make the GV one of the worst things on the road. Not surprising, given a car that listed “upholstery” as a standard feature.