TrueCar.com Lists Top Ten Scariest Cars

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- What car frightened you when you first laid eyes on it? Or spooked you but you still couldn't resist owning one?  With Halloween less than two weeks away, TrueCar.com, the authority in new car pricing, trends and forecasting, is announcing its Top 10 Scariest Cars.  Topping the list were the trio of American Motor Corporation (AMC) cars from the 1970s, the AMC Gremlin, the AMC Pacer and the AMC Matador.  Also cited are the Lamborghini Espada and the Pontiac Aztek.

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"At TrueCar, we really love cars," said Brandy Schaffels, Content Manager at TrueCar.com. "Most of the time, those cars are beautiful and sexy, but there have been a few in history that were just so scary, we had to wonder 'what were they thinking?' It seems appropriate at this time of year to pay our respects to some of those scary, unloved, cars."

The list identified two separate definitions of "scary:"

• Too Scary to Look At:  These are cars that make you scream out of pure fright; cars that make you wonder who was at the controls before being approved for production.  They have angles where they should have curves and curves where they should have angles; and design cues that even a mother couldn't love.

• Too Scary to Turn Away:  These cars also make you scream, but for a completely different reason.  Like a gory vampire attack or a train wreck, you just can't turn away.  They assault your sensibilities like they assault your retinas, but in the end, you just can't stop looking.  And we can't help but love these cars for that reason.

For more information – including pictures – about these cars, visit the TrueCar.com Blog.  To comment on this, or to add your own scary cars to the mix, comment on the TrueCar.com Facebook or Twitter pages.

About TrueCar

TrueCar is the authority in new car prices.  We show car buyers and car dealers how much people actually paid for a particular car in a specific local area.  With TrueCar pricing, both new car buyers and new car dealers can know at any time what is considered a good or great price on a new car. Consumers no longer need to walk into a dealership partially informed and fully suspicious – using TrueCar they walk in knowing the price of a fair deal. Dealers benefit by TrueCar's real-time, unbiased information about marketplace pricing, helping them price cars for increased sales, and ultimately gaining market share over other dealers.  Our innovative new car pricing service is offered free of charge on our website at www.truecar.com, on our mobile site at mobile.truecar.com, and via syndication of our tools and pricing data to leading automotive research sites throughout the web. 

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SOURCE TrueCar.com