Not Worth the Wrenches and Welders

People trying to improve Pugs, English Bulldogs, and Frenchies by outcrossing them are like AMC Gremlin owners looking to change a few things so they can sell their car as a Ford Pinto.

What’s the point? 

I mean, it’s not like there’s a shortage of good cars to be had in any lot.

The Gremlin, for those too young to remember was, according to Time magazine, “one of the most curiously proportioned cars ever, with a long low snout, long front overhang and a truncated tail, like the tail snapped off a salamander. Cheap and incredibly deprived — with vacuum-operated windshield wipers, no less — the Gremlin was also awful to drive, with a heavy six-cylinder motor and choppy, unhappy handling due to the loss of suspension travel in the back.”

The Pinto, of course, was famously “unsafe at any speed.”