No record ugliness, but a lemon just the same.

When Volvo first tried to expand into Europe, they wanted to get their hands on some production capacity inside the then fledgling European Common Market. The answer was to buy a Dutch car manufacturer called DAF (van Doorns Automobil Fabrieken). Among the piles of trash Volvo had to clean up in the factory was DAF’s plans for their next offering to the car hungry public. It became the Volvo 343. It got a Gremlin-like exterior and inherited DAF’s Variomatic transmission, some sort of rubber band thingy that allowed the car to go as fast backwards as it went forwards. The shift was really simple with only three positions – forward, neutral, and reverse – which made it rather popular with people who couldn’t afford an electrically powered wheel chair.