福特水星巡洋艦

????為了避免落入通用（GM）的窠臼，福特（Ford）在很大程度上刻意忽略了尾鰭。盡管如此，福特水星巡洋艦仍是一樣的丑，只是丑得有特點(diǎn)。該車最讓人詬病的地方包括它的后擋泥板、前風(fēng)擋頂端的兩個(gè)通風(fēng)口，還有為吹“過(guò)堂風(fēng)”而設(shè)計(jì)的伸縮式后車窗，另外三種色調(diào)的涂漆著實(shí)不美觀。

????這款轎車僅僅生產(chǎn)了兩年就停產(chǎn)了。電子元件的質(zhì)量和裝配的質(zhì)量不足，可能也是造成這款車型難以為繼的原因之一，但更大的問(wèn)題無(wú)疑是它的設(shè)計(jì)品味太差。一位評(píng)論人士曾寫道：“作為汽車過(guò)剩時(shí)代的偉大產(chǎn)品之一，它是在錯(cuò)誤的時(shí)間、為了各種錯(cuò)誤的原因而生產(chǎn)的一款長(zhǎng)著錯(cuò)誤的外形的錯(cuò)誤產(chǎn)品?！?/p>

Mercury Turnpike Cruiser

????Making a conscious effort to stand out from GM, Ford mostly ignored tailfins, but its designs were equally awful in their own way. Chief among them on the Turnpike Cruiser were rear fender side channels, twin air intakes at the top of the windshield, a retractable rear window for "Breeze-way" ventilation, and a three-tone paint job.

????The car remained in production for only two years. Troublesome electronics and poor assembly quality were partly to blame, but a bigger problem was the unmistakable air of poor taste. Wrote one reviewer: "As one of the great artifacts from the age of automotive excess, it was the wrong product with the wrong features, built at the wrong time and for all the wrong reasons."