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* In Russia, Alleged Cars are still commonly called "Antilopa Gnus" [[wikipedia:Lada|What]] [[wikipedia:Volga (automobile)|does it]] [[wikipedia:ZAZ|take to]] [[wikipedia:Moskvitch|stand out]] as an Alleged Car in Russia? Those, for all their shortcomings, at least were the popular production models, with parts widely available, and their simple and sturdy construction meant that everybody and their dog could fix them anywhere.
* The Hispanias in the 2011 season Formula One, compared to the rest of the cars in the series, definately count as this.
** At least the Hispanias can qualify for the race. The [https://web.archive.org/web/20080513155121/http://www.f1rejects.com/teams/andreamoda/profile.html Andrea Moda] and the [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20110926220936/http://f1rejects.com/teams/life/profile.html 'Life'] cars from the 1990s rarely made it beyond the end of the pitlane. One of the Andrea Moda's unfortunate pilots was Perry McCarthy (aka 'The First [[Top Gear|Stig]]') who posed for photographers in a faux-triumphal pose next to it's silent form when it ground to a halt after a few hundred metres. The Life car was a repurposed Formula 3000 chassis with a W12 engine instead of the conventional V8/10/12, and was usually about ''twenty'' seconds off the pace.
* In China, the worst are the Xiali (based on a Toyota design) and Suzuki Alto, two of the first to enter market. The latter is often joked to have been designed to drive on sidewalks. The former is joked for its design's 2-decade production without major change.
* The Lancia Beta, which rusted to point of scrap, ruined the reputation of Lancia (a manufacturer of otherwise decent cars) in the United Kingdom, forcing the company to pull out of the UK entirely, much to the chagrin of ''[[Top Gear]]'''s presenters years later.