Ugly Cars
 

Once in a while, Detroit makes a car so hideous you wonder how it ever got from drawing table to assembly line. Then somebody buys it... I know its a matter of taste, so what is the ugliest car out there?

this is the ugliest car.

~james

Close, perth, but no cigar.

http://www.chrysler.com/pt_cruiser/

Ugh.

i dunno, chrysler seems to have a knack for designing ugly cars. sad story, we very nearly decided to buy a pt cruiser, because feature-wise, its really not a bad car. but you are right, its an ugly-ass car.

pontiac makes a real turd of an suv.

~james

oh, and lets not forget this abomination

~james

HEY. I like the new Beetles.

Actually, I hated them, but now I am uncontrollably drawn toward them.

I want a silver one.

With a spoiler. *ducks*

Then there is chevy's embarassment.

VWs designs always appeal to me, but Dave man thats a chick car. :)

I CAN'T HELP IT! I DIDN'T DECIDE TO LIKE IT! THE GODDAMNED THING WANTS ME TO WANT IT! ASJDFOIQJWDJFAQQQAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

thats the dumbest truck ive ever seen. who ever heard of a truck too small to haul a mattress.

dave, dont feel bad. i drive a saturn. its not ugly, but it is about the plainest, most boring car on the road. its a 4-banger, and when we bought it, i insisted on having a standard transmission just so i could pretend i was driving a car with some power.

imagine a big buzz-headed guy with an infant in the back seat of a saturn, popping the clutch and making 'vroom'ing noises while the girl in the passenger seat rolls her eyes and sighs. :)

~james

Aztek- Butt ugly
are they searching for the neo-realist Gremlin?

*neo-realist * Don't even start...

As long as you got a manual, you got class, James!

Now... what are we talkin' about here, Griff? The ugliest American car? The ugliest car currently in production? The ugliest car ever?

Yah know how some critters are so ugly they're cute, like this aussie pooch layin' here? Thats where I am on the Pacer. Now if my parents were serial owners of them instead of this abortion, I'd sing a different tune. Take the hammer to foreign cars as well...

had a hell of a time finding a decent pic of a chevy monza (yes i know that pic is a model). i had one of these my freshman year of college. had a love/hate relationship with it, and the monza or an international scout would be my dream restoration. while the monza is just ugly ugly, the scout is cool ugly.

~james

Oh hell yeah James! My parents used to own a Monza...a '78 2-door station wagon...just like this one:

holy shit. i didnt even know the monza came in a station wagon.

~james

Hudson Italia

or

1954 Ford FX

Oh, and what happened to that '78 Monza? It caught fire at a 7-Eleven parking lot...damned carburetor.

I like the new Beetle...and if you all don't, you can go to hell. In fact, maybe I'll just head south to Mexico and buy a Sedan (aka the "old" beetle) for $7400US. :)

Hmmm...some cars for the Ugly Hall of Fame:

--Buick Rendezvous (current)
--Toyota Echo (current)
--Chevrolet Malibu/Oldsmobile Cutlass (current)
--Subaru SVX (early 90s)
--VW Jetta (prior to the current model, so...pre-2001?)
--Chevrolet Lumina APV/Pontiac Trans Sport (late 80s-mid 90s)
--Those first-generation Mitsubishi, Nissan, and Toyota minivans that looked like ripoffs of the old VW Bus (mid 80s)

The new beatle is terribly designed. I do mean terribly. At least they did a good job with the new mini. I want one. Since i'm a poor student i'm getting an old one. Ah well.

We can take this in dangerous directions. I was gonna say that the new Caddy CTS that Griff posted is not uglier than the AMC Pacer, but that I'd bet the people who choose to drive that particular Caddy are assholes. It just has an asshole-y feel about it. The Pacer has a feel like it's gonna be driven by the man from Donkey Kong.

And then I thought about giving examples of other asshole-y cars on the road. You know what I mean? But then I thought, what if one of us drives one of 'em?

It's all pure prejudice. But hey, it's fun.

New WRX's aren't much better.

KAZ
 

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...cle_tok101.jpg

The centipede to VW's bug.

Is it ugly?

For my taste, the two ugliest cars in production are:
Renault Kangoo Express and Toyota Yaris Verso

Also the names of those cars are quite stupid, I think.

But then again, I like the New Beetle and the Chrysler mentioned here earlier...

Good thing you self-censored. :)

Nic, I predict that by the year 2000 we will all be driving flying cars not unlike the 54 FX. The design is necessary to get high altitude performance, I'm willing to trade fashion for function.

;)

The silver ones are ugly. Now the blue ones on the other hand.....sehr schwing. :D

Uuuuugggg-ly

Beauty is in the mind, I guess
 

Looking at the first dozen posts (and assuming they're not trolling) lends the reader a particular view, not of the cars, but of the poster's tastes. The Cadillac, eh. It makes a statement.

But not liking the Cruiser, Prowler or VW?

Youz folks are NOT car people. Sheesh.

(And I'll be buying an Avalanche soon enough to go with our Cruiser and two Vettes.)

Citations? yeah, pedestrian uninteresting cars.

Gremlins and Vegas? Hey, the clothes came back in style...I'm SURE 'retro' styling will hearken back to the seventies someday. :P

That new hardtop convertible Lexus -- I just can't figure it out. On the Surface, it's just wrong. Wrong lines doing wrong things at the wrong places...but I can't stop LOOKING at it. It's like a trainwreck...but guilded in Crome (and the finest CorINthian Leather.)

Re: Beauty is in the mind, I guess
 

"The front of my house has columns, even though they're structurally unnecessary."

The caddy CTS looks awesome IMO.
Now the ASSTEK on the other hand...

Thats why they design different cars, theres no accounting for taste. :) Watched the ball game last night, it seems Subaru is slapping the goofy panels (ala avalanche) on one of their rigs. I like the idea of protecting the fenders etc... but their execution? After seeing everbodies pet ugly, I'm thinking Aztec gets the the award for cars presently in production.

This atrocity must surely have a place in automobile hell reserved for it...
 

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Looks like an old East German-made Wartburg painted up to celebrate German reunification. Kinda spiffy. I like the picture of the Brandenburg Gate over the windshield, and the obsolete BRD and DDR vehicle IDs surmounted by the new, reunified "D". Lots of symbolism on that car, if you know where to look for it.

I think it's an East German Trabant.

and so is this classic ...

http://cellar.org/showthread.php?s=&...ghlight=frozen

Pontiac Asstent
 

http://www.autopictures.com/aztec/pictures/006.jpg

was inspired by the Trabant.

http://home.clara.net/peterfrost/p60rt3.jpg

The Amphicar is ugly and sometimes it leaks but, generally, it floats better than a Suzuki.

I know a guy who had an Amphicar. When he lived in Boston he used to slip into the Charles to beat the traffic, very cool.

http://www.molestedcars.com/

~james

What? No Avantis?
 

What's up with that? That's a lapse, people!

fascinating history ugly car

I'm suprised that no one has mentioned the SMART car. I especially like how the frame ("tridion safety cell" ????) prevents it from becoming "more compact." Hee hee. Not possible at all.

ugh. does that even count as a car? it would look fine, i suppose, on a golf course.

~james

not sure this qualifies as a car either, but its ugly as fuck.

~james

Who knew? I posted the Merlin in a thread called Dream Car. I suppose one man's dream is another's nightmare.

oops, sorry nic. nothing personal. feel free to bash the porsche boxster. :)

~james

The good, the bad and the Taxi
 

Any four dour sedan that's been "hacked-up" (turned into a taxi).

Opps
 

Obviously, I meant "door"

Re: Opps
 

I was starting to think you were Canadian.

[humor]I was starting to think you were Canadian.[/humour]