Here's my contribution to yesterday's draw Mohammered fun. It's not a drawing, it's a pic, and you kinda have to be a car guy to get this. I call this "Mohammered the Aztek."
If you don't get it, I'm sorry. It's not really that subtle.
Here's a quotation from Business Week to help:
The Aztek has been the poster-car for GM’s canny ability over the last decade to survey the marketplace, poll consumers, anticipate style trends and come up with something so wrong-headed as to make Sony’s commitment to Beta look like marketing genius. My sister-in-law once called me on the phone, having just picked up an Aztek from Avis, asking, “What the hell am I driving here? It looks like a giant grasshopper wrapped up in caution tape (it was a bad shade of yellow.) GM product boss Bob Lutz has quipped, “We’d fire the guy who greenlighted the Aztek if we could find anyone willing to admit it.”
My step-father always managed to buy some of the worst abortions that GM and Ford ever tried to push off on the American public. By the time the Aztec came about he was too infirm to drive or I'm sure there would have been one in the driveway!
ReplyDeleteMy neighbor across the street bought an Aztec about 4 years ago.
ReplyDeleteShe is an otherwise very intelligent woman, and a fabulous neighbor.
But, talk about pulling a boner...
Aiiieee. Total embarrassment for a GM freak like YrHmblScrb. There have been entirely too many of these sorts of things out of GM in the last 20 years.
ReplyDeleteEd, Thanks for commenting. I hope the prophet recognizes the insult. As for really bad cars, here's one. In 1950, times were hard in our house and my dad bought a 37 ford coupe that was the worst car we ever had. I was about 10 or 11 and my brother was only 4. It smoked terribly and the worn out 60 hp engine would barely pull the hill in front of our house. But the worst thing by far, was that the rear seat had rotted out and the previous owner had built a wooden seat back there. That's where bro and me sat. Rough as a radio flyer going down a rocky road. Thank God dad didn't keep that thing but a few months.
ReplyDeleteAndy, I feel sorry for your neighbor. She had an Aztek and you right across the street! :-)
ReplyDeleteBuck, I too loved GM cars. We owned a 65 Catalina, a 69 Catalina, and a 68 GTO (all great cars). But they've made some bad ones over the years. The X bodied Citation comes to mind, likewise the Chevette, and the Vega!
ReplyDelete...the Chevette
ReplyDeleteI had one I used as a "winter car" when I lived in Dee-troit. The Second Mrs. Pennington's daily driver was a Corvette; she put it up for the winter and took over my ride, a SAAB 9000. I, in turn, drove the Chevette. For three winters. Never in my life was I as glad to see the crocus bloom as I was during those three winters. The Chevette (referred to as "the other Vette") was a cramped, ugly, rattling little thing... but it DID start up every morning and got me to and from work in one piece. I think I paid $300.00 for it, and sold it for about the same. But I HATED that car like no other I ever owned.
Now the Vega, OTOH, COULD be a fine car if you're talking about the Cosworth Vega. I had a girlfriend in the late '70s who had one and that lil thing was a rip-snorter. I say "was" because said girlfriend got drunk one night and decided to plow a wheat field with it... totaling the car in the process (she, OTOH, emerged without a scratch). I cried.