If 1956 was a memorable year in terms of automotive design, it was generally for the wrong reasons. Take the medium-priced field: The Buick, at least in its larger series, was bulbous. The Mercury had evidently been conceived by someone who been struck by a chrome-plated lightning bolt. The Chrysler wore a conspicuously ill-fitting pair of fins atop its rear fenders. And then there was the Hudson. Or was there?"

Hybrids are all the rage today, but AMC had a hybrid on the market more than 50 years ago … Oh, wait, a different kind of hybrid. However, both the modern-day Prius and the Hudson-Nash "Hash" of the mid-1950s did both get chided on their looks, so there's at least one thing they both had in common. From October 1983, comes this Drive Report on a 1956 Hudson Hornet Special.

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