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For its press conference, the company hired locals to stand around in a mock mosh pit. Everybody knows the story of the Pontiac Aztek, a vehicle widely considered to be one of the ugliest ever put into production—and a perfect example of an automaker bungling what seemed to be a great idea. The Aztek violates one of the principal rules of car design: We like cars that look like us. See hi-res pictures, prices and info on Pontiac Aztek cars for sale. Instead, the production Aztek, powered by the corporate 3.4-liter V-6 and with a decidedly on-road–focused optional all-wheel-drive system, combined the performance, excitement, and off-road capability of a minivan with the lesser practicality of a chopped minivan.Bob Lutz, who took over the top product job at GM in the aftermath of the Aztek, has claimed that the design was presented to focus groups who felt about the thing the way we all felt about it when we first saw it: They hated it. With its multiple eyes and supernumerary nostrils, the Aztek looks deformed and scary, something that dogs bark at and cathedrals employ to ring bells (cf., Fiat Multipla).
Absolutely not. We blame its recurring role on AMC’s insanely good series And make no mistake: The Aztek is not cool.
In fact, both were built at the same plant in Mexico. Marketed by The Aztek was noted for its styling, which was instantly controversial.
Well, actually Lutz claimed that the market-research respondents said, “I wouldn’t take it as a gift.” So convinced were the powers that be of the essential rightness of the vehicle, though, that this didn’t kill the Aztek, either.Instead, GM—stung by years of criticism that it was a stodgy old corporation that produced stodgy old designs— pushed ahead. Research the 2001 Pontiac Aztek at cars.com and find specs, pricing, MPG, safety data, photos, videos, reviews and local inventory. I’m not trying to redeem the Aztek itself here, though others have attempted to do so at various times with greater or lesser degrees of irony. Our car experts choose every product we feature. This commenting section is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page. Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. It’s so powerfully ugly that a blobfish wouldn’t be seen next to it. And then only for use in cautionary tales.Next to its Aztek platform-mate, Buick’s Rendezvous didn’t look all that horrible. The notion was to mix the attributes of a Camaro and a Blazer into a wide, low, powerful, off-roadish thing referred to as the Bear Claw. These two cars weren’t just platform-mates: They were brothers. The Aztek was one of the first automobiles to be designed entirely using computerized rapid-prototyping/rapid-visualization tools.The Aztek was able to carry within its interior a standard 4 feet (1.2 m) by 8 feet (2.4 m) sheet of GM forecast sales of up to 75,000 Azteks per year and needed to produce 30,000 annually to break even.
Pontiac introduced the production Aztek at the 2000 Detroit auto show. Pontiac tried entering the crossover market, a relatively new concept at the time, but they went about it horribly wrong. It’s no more worthy of reassessment, ironic or otherwise, than is Limp Bizkit. Pontiac introduced the production Aztek at the 2000 Detroit auto show. This was an era in which the General produced a number of vehicles that were determined to be innovative, regardless of whether buyers were interested in such innovations. She ran that car to 350,000. Andrea owned and loved one of the most polarizing cars ever made, the Pontiac Aztek. That didn’t help, either. This isn’t as crazy as it sounds. It wasn’t the right car at the wrong time or even the wrong car at the right time; it was pretty resoundingly the wrong car, delivered at the wrong time. Twenty years later, with everyone from Subaru to Lamborghini cashing in on the gawky car-based active-lifestyle vehicle craze, it’s clear that Pontiac’s strangest creation has made fools of us all. But it didn’t hit me until, oddly enough, I saw a stripped-out hulk in a field on Detroit’s east side a few years back. The Aztek, a blatant minivan-in-drag monstrosity, sat on stage looking like a sad, fat man who’d had his nose cut off.
On paper, the Aztek was a slam dunk. Both Aztek and Rendezvous ride on a version of GM’s U-platform, which also underpinned front-wheel-drive vans (and it’s still in use in China today!).
By IFCAR – Own work, Public Domain, Link Pontiac Aztek The Aztek is probably the single most-hated car in the world. It should—But most people just can’t get past the looks, to the point where most jokes about the poor thing’s appearance are totally stale. Prescient, even: a car-based, high(er)-riding crossover with available all-wheel drive and “rugged” plastic cladding tacked on to the sides (as the photo above shows, this was swiftly scaled back after the 2001 model year). For its press conference, the company hired locals to stand around in a mock mosh pit.
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