I found the following item and it just cracked me up so I had to share! The Top 10 Scariest Cars.. some due to mechanical, others for being death traps, or other amusing reasons..

Cars.com’s 2 choices for scary ugly.. the Pontiac Aztek & VW Thing.. for me looking at them side by side the Aztek wins this honor hands down.. the Thing while odd just can not compete with how insanely, hideously, atrociously, horrifying.. repulsive the Aztek was.

I do like there comments that the designers for the Thing went to Pontiac to design this monster.. but they must have completely lost their eye-sight at that point.

2005 Pontiac Aztek

Scary for: Onlookers

Well, now we know where the designers of the Volkswagen Thing went to work after VW canned their sorry butts. Take a good look at this vehicle — it’s a tribute to the art of unfortunate compromises. Someone at GM said "take a minivan, whack off a few corners and make something we can call a utility vehicle." The car itself was not bad — rather utilitarian, actually — but it pinned the needle on the visual pollution scale.

1974 Volkswagen Thing

Scary for: Onlookers

Just take a gander at this. No wonder they named it the Thing; it was styled by the same guy who invented the cookie sheet. Thankfully, they rusted quickly enough that few remain to invoke PTSD for former owners.

I will confess.. if I had an opportunity to buy a Thing.. I would.

Now since Cars.com was relatively kind to the Aztek.. I am curious to see how it actually rated.. here is what Consumer Reports has on the Aztek:

The Aztek, introduced as a 2001 model, is an SUV based on the Montana minivan. Like the Montana, it uses GM’s 3.4-liter, 185-hp V6, which is neither sprightly nor fuel-efficient. The Aztek is clearly aimed at the much-hyped "active lifestyle" crowd, with handy standard and optional features like removable plastic storage boxes, a removable center-console cooler, a slide-out cargo tray, and a tent that fits onto the rear of the vehicle. Negatives include poor rear visibility, clumsy handling, a stiff ride, a rear seat that’s too low, no rear wiper, and a split rear gate that’s awkward to operate. The Aztek was discontinued after the 2005 model year.

For reliability issues they were across the board, none of the years made above an overall “worse than average” reliability. So it was an ugly bomb! It may  have had some interesting storage concepts.. but it is quite an expensive storage item.

So an unreliable, problematic, and ugly vehicle.. gee why did it only last 4 years, rather how did it last 4 years?

Top 10 Scary Cars – Cars.com

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