# Does anyone like the Pontiac Aztec?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 30, 2000, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129 "2000-09-30T09:09:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/1 "2000-09-30T09:09:28Z")
This monstrosity is so incredibly ass-ugly it boggles the mind. I haven’t heard anything positive about it, from anyone. I saw one close up recently (GM inexplicably brought it to my school to show off at our career fair), and it looks even uglier than the pictures make it out to be. So anyone like the damn thing, or know anyone who does?
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### Author:  [@Baglady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baglady)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/2 "2000-09-30T09:44:01Z")
I do like the concept of a flip-top tent on the back of that thang.
… but the front looks like it’s wearing a huge set of braces on buck teeth or something.
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### Author:  [@Rectangle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rectangle)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/3 "2000-09-30T10:00:41Z")
And they call that ugly-a\*\* thing a SUV. An embarassment
to the only real SUV, the JEEP!
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### Author:  [@aztec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aztec)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/4 "2000-09-30T15:07:08Z")
no, my username does not imply my enthusiasm for this pontiac piece of crap. i’m a jeep man myself
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### Author:  [@Just\_Call\_Me\_Tech-Mex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Call_Me_Tech-Mex)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/5 "2000-09-30T15:15:42Z")
It’s cool enough. I’m not into that much, prefer stadard pickup trucks, but there’s no harm in giving people options.
The trouble with the auto industry as a whole is too many cars look alike. None of the old cars do, from the 60’s. A lot of guys try to find them to drive, each one unique. Hard to get parts, but they had enough room under the hood to be modified.
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### Author:  [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/6 "2000-09-30T15:39:45Z")
I think it looks like an '85 LeMans and a TranSport had a bastard child. Either that or an '85 LeMans on steroids. What a god-awful ugly thing.
And you Jeep guys better quit dissin’ my '88 Montero!
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/7 "2000-09-30T16:01:28Z")
The '88 Montero was classically simple. Looked like a military vehicle, except usually red (contraindicated in military vehicles).
The Aztec is an insult to the indigenous peoples of central Mexico and they should sue. That is one of the ugliest things on the road. I am thankful it doesn’t seem to be selling well. And that sloping back cuts into the cargo space.
More butt-ugly SUVs are made by Isuzu. The original Trooper was nice and practical and really looked like the troop transport and liaison vehicle it started out as. OTOH, I was so startled walking past one of the new ones when they first arrived that I said aloud, “That’s the ugliest G-D thing I have ever seen in my life!” A salesman showing it to some customers was not pleased. They don’t seem to be selling well, either.
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### Author:  [@Ankh\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ankh_Too)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/8 "2000-09-30T21:29:14Z")
Actually, I kind of like it. It’s certainly different than every other SUV out there on the road. But then again, this is from someone who actually likes the looks of the Hummers.
YMMV
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### Author:  [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/9 "2000-09-30T22:04:34Z")
Some people enjoy eating poo and being peed on a kicked in the nads, but most don’t admit it in public.
I hate the ugly, ugly piece of trash!
Gimme a GTO anyday.
–Tim
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/10 "2000-10-01T00:45:58Z")
It appears to have fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch coming down. With the premiere of this hideous monstronsity, I NEVER want to hear anyone make fun of the old Beetle again! 🙂
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/11 "2000-10-01T00:56:17Z")
I think the Pontiac Aztec should be drug out in the road and shot.
The kind folks at GM are giving away Aztecs as prizes in all sorts of contests in an attempt to get rid of some of them.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/12 "2000-10-01T01:24:12Z")
When Ford changed the headlights on the Contour they took a fairly good looking car and made it stupidly bizarre. I’m a Ford man, but they sometimes get wierd ideas of what’s attractive. So I called them up to ask them what the hell they were thinking and was given the public relations department instead of styling. I wasn’t surprised. They probably lump all of us who care about styling with the rest of the lunatics.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/13 "2000-10-01T01:25:25Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by racinchikki \*
> \*\*The kind folks at GM are giving away Aztecs as prizes in all sorts of contests in an attempt to get rid of some of them. \*\*
Ooh! The discussion comes full circle! They did that with the Korean LeMans, too!
You’d think they’d get a clue.
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/14 "2000-10-01T01:28:15Z")
You could teach them the clue mating call, spray them with clue musk and stand them in a field full of horny clues in the middle of clue mating season and they STILL wouldn’t get a clue.
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### Author:  [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/15 "2000-10-01T17:10:25Z")
[Pontiac sets a new standard for ugly!](http://www.pontiac.com/aztek/index.html) Come on, what style is that supposed to draw from, the Battlestar Galactica movement???
BTW, here’s the first response from Google (searching for Pontiac Aztec): [Pontiac Aztec…uuuugh](http://forums.thathomesite.com/forums/load/cars/msg081613491565.html)
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### Author:  [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/16 "2000-10-01T17:31:03Z")
Has anyone seen the Chevy Avalanche? I thought the Aztek was the ugliest vehicle ever, but GM outdid itself! What the hell is the deal with the rocker panels?
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### Author:  [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/17 "2000-10-01T19:39:57Z")
I don’t know how it handles, but it’s the ugliest thing this side of a Gremlin on steroids.
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### Author:  [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/18 "2000-10-01T19:52:49Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Rectangle \*
> **And they call that ugly-a** thing a SUV. An embarassment
> to the only real SUV, the JEEP! \*\*
Yeah! 😃
The Aztec looks more like a stylish mini-van to me. I saw the prototype vehicle–it looked A LOT better than the vehicle that’s on the market now.
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### Author:  [@Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archer)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/19 "2000-10-01T20:02:50Z")
It is definately an ugly vehicle. The vast majority of people who purchase this type of vehicle have no intention whatsoever of taking them off road. The current rage for the “designer” SUV has produced vehicles unsuited for taking up or down narrow, steep, snow, mud and rock trails with firs and pines rubbing the sides of the vehicle.
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### Author:  [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-the-pontiac-aztec/35129/20 "2000-10-01T20:35:24Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Archer \*
> \*\*It is definately an ugly vehicle. The vast majority of people who purchase this type of vehicle have no intention whatsoever of taking them off road. The current rage for the “designer” SUV has produced vehicles unsuited for taking up or down narrow, steep, snow, mud and rock trails with firs and pines rubbing the sides of the vehicle. \*\*
Not so, here’s who Pontiac is marketing this thing to:
> [@](#):
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> You’re constantly on the go, geared up for life, pushing it to the limit and have your own sense of style. Now there’s a vehicle that adapts to you and makes it all happen. It’s the Pontiac Aztek. With the Aztek, we pushed the edge on style and technology. We combined the best attributes of sport sedans, sport utility vehicles, and minivans to bring you the first Sport Recreation Vehicle (SRV).
See, its for people who push the limit. I’m sure these people will take it off-road. Or at least get run off the road by those of us who care about æsthetics.
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