gold turd
A really shitty car that still runs
Victors gold turd is so shitty that he crashed it on purpose
gold-painted turd
Something that has excessive hyperbole and popularity, pawned off as being great and excellent, when, underneath all the hoopla and hype, is actually quite pathetic, obnoxious, overpraised, and downright overrated.
As for the TV show "Grey's Anatomy", what a gold-painted turd.
gold plated turd
No matter how hard you try to improve certain things, its basic nature remains the same.
"That car fanatic has been spending thousands of dollars on that '58 Edsel...its just a gold plated turd!"