After a week digging into the Greatest of All Time, we wrap C/D's July issue with the opposite of all that.
Ugly, slow, sloppy, shoddy, and deadly: These are the capital vices of the four-wheeled species. Detroit's fall, as gluttony gave way to sloth in the '70s and '80s, plays heavily in any discussion of the worst cars of all time. But no automaker is without sin—not even Ferrari. There is, however, only one car guilty of every major trespass against its owners.
Eric Tingwall holds degrees in mechanical engineering and journalism, a combination he pursued with the dream of working at Car and Driver. While living his dream, he has cut car parts in half, driven into a stationary dummy car at 50 mph, lapped Virginia International Raceway in the hottest performance cars, and explained the physics behind the wacky, waving, inflatable, flailing-arm tube man.
