*Maybach 57 and 62*
This behemoth costs three times as much as a top-of-the-line Merc S-Class, and though you can choose between grand nappa or nubuck leather interiors, the Mayback looks like it was dreamt up by a Korean ad-executive, ably assisted by two colleagues from marketing. Never was a 550 horsepower V12 wasted thus.
*Porsche Cayenne*
Take one perfectly good 911. Hack, chop and squash the bodywork(with a blindfold on). Once you’re done, raise the car’s ride-height by a foot and a half. And bingo! you have the Cayenne! This disgraceful off-roader vilifies the Porsche name, period.
*Renault Vel Satis*
Renault’s alternative to your everyday German and Japanese luxury saloons looks like it was put together in dyselexic’s backyard using bits and pieces from random American and Japanese discards. Reverse-chic? Functional design? New-age handsome? We think it’s just plain ugly. And oh, it’s unsettling ride and barge-like handling makes it the worst of both worlds. All together now:’Down with the Vel Satis.!’
*Lancia Thesis*
Bigger than a Merc E-Class or a BMW 5-series, about as ugly as the Renault Vel Satis and more cramped for space than a Suzuki Swift(well, almost.), this has to be one of the most pointless cars ever made. And this from a company that used to make the Integrale and the Stratos cars. How the mighty have fallen.
*BMW Z4*
Could this be the zed.er, dead end for BMW? Flames looked good painted on 1960s American dragsters, but BMW’s’flame surfacing’ just makes for grotesque-looking cars. First the new 7-series, and now this. What’s with BMW these days? What went wrong? Why on earth can’t they stick to building exquisitely raunchy sportscars like the M3.?!