Chrysler Sebring

Although this car has marginally gotten better looking in recent years, it’s still a noteworthy design and sales disaster of this decade. The original Sebring (sedan) was a slightly European take on the American mid-size sedan, with clean lines and an egg-crate grille. The current design is an art-deco disaster, all the more upsetting as it was released after the successful and much-lauded 300. There were a lot of raised expectations for this car, and a lot of people were let down. Basically they took a Crossfire – a car which didn’t exactly fare the concept to production journey all that well – and added two more doors, gave it a tall and narrow stance and stuck on some mismatched taillights. I mean – what’s the deal with the taillights? The fender mounted pieces look like they’re from a different car than those affixed to the trunk. It kind of looks like what you see on some run-down older cars, where they had an accident and replaced portions of the taillights with pieces from a scrap yard, except it’s from a newer (or older) model and slightly different. At least the (eventually) fixed them, and got rid of the hood strakes.