What is/was the ugliest car ever made?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

I don't know much about cars...but recent additions have to include the Plymouth Prowler.

With thanks to poster below...credit where credit is due.




I have to add the Honda Fuya-Jo...

[Feathered Fish]

1. Hummer

[GoddessOfGuinness]

68. I second that

Futt-bucking ugly!

[Seabiscuit]

73. I'll third that

Gro-friggin-tesque!

[Blue State Blues]

114. And I'll, um, fourth that!

Guess the next poster on this reply will have to "take the fifth."

[aWaKeNoW]

106. Yep, I think they look ridiculous

:puke:

[KitchenWitch]

2. The AMC Pacer

[baldguy]

8. But, but......it's SMILING!

[KitchenWitch]

9. It may be smiling

but it is still ugly.

[auntAgonist]

40. I LOVED my pacer!

one of the most stable cars on the road. Larger passenger side door for easy in and out to the back seat. It was my 'lil fish bowl'. I really do miss it.

[fishwax]

57. that was my first thought, too

but upon further review, I think the Gremlin was worse.



Gee, I wonder why AMC didn't last? :shrug:

changed picture on edit: d'oh! the Garthmobile WAS a Pacer, not a Gremlin.

[aden_nak]

98. The Gremlin is so tragicly retro that it almost rocks.

Despite, as I remember, having the gas tank about an eight of an inch from the rear bumper.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

80. Pacers look like

flying saucers with wheels. I always thought they were kind of cool...

[Buck Turgidson]

3. Dude, it's a Plymouth

http://www.hotrod.com/roadtests/46198/

[HeyManThatsCool]

5. Le Car

You remember it right?

1980 Renault Le Car

[HeyManThatsCool]

13. The Aztek is a close 2nd

Sorry to any who own it...

[KitchenWitch]

31. Honda Element

[SemiCharmedQuark]

35. I am so glad you said this!

Seeing this car on TV was actually my inspiration for posting this thread.

[KitchenWitch]

55. nothing like driving a colored shipping crate around!

[CO Liberal]

56. They're Unbelivably Roomy Inside

If I had the money, I'd buy one tomorrow.

[giant_robot]

101. Yes!

Who'd want to drive a car that looks like a f***ing bowling shoe?

[dean_dem]

129. To each his own...

I love that car. It looks like a giant Lego.

[CornField]

37. My vote goes to the Aztec too... UGH!

[Bake]

58. Gotta agree -- that's DAMN UGLY!

Bake

[AllyCat]

79. Someone told me the "unique" design was to accomodate

a tent that folded out of the back. Then I found out that was optional. How many people actually used that tent?

I swear GM can't design a good-looking car to save their lives.

[goodboy]

103. I second that...

:puke:

[progressiveBadger]

122. It's a pop up camper on wheels! n/t

[huskerlaw]

131. I completely agree!

I just got back from a trip. The rental car agent offered this fugly thing. I laughed hysterically. She didn't understand why I was laughing. I said, "Have you ever seen that thing?" She never did understand why I adamantly refused.

[DS1]

17. my first car - 4 door - it was fun

:-)

[Califooyah Operative]

27. 2 words....

geo metro.

[HeyManThatsCool]

29. that car

is sooooo ugly!

[eleonora]

4. heh, I happen to like it!

To each their own, I guess!

[tuvor]

6. The Prowler makes my pants feel tighter.

So do be quiet.

[Bake]

61. The Prowler's cool, even beautiful, in a Route 66 kind of way!

FAR from ugly!

Bake

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

70. I like it better with the front wheel fenders off

They are removable

[hangemhigh]

7. Gremlin-Ford, I think. nt

[qnr]

10. AMC, just like the pacer.

[wtmusic]

111. AMC deserves a Lifetime Achievement award n/t

[mcscajun]

11. It's hard to find anything uglier...

...than a '58 Edsel squad car.

[KitchenWitch]

16. ...

Fuck that's ugly.

[tuvor]

21. Well, at least someone used their imagination putting it together.

What do most people drive right now? Some indistinguishable cookie-cutter crapmobile.

[kodi]

30. we have the all-time winner.

so ugly its beautiful.

[baldguy]

12. Citroen 2CV

[tuvor]

18. Like a squarshed Beetle n/t

[blue neen]

41. LOL! That looks like the car Inspector Clouseau drove

into the pool in "Return of the Pink Panther!"

[tuvor]

14. Almost anything after, say, 1980.

Increasingly homogenized, aerodynamic, style-free. Until the Prowler came along!

[Wickerman]

15. AMC Gremlin

AMC, always at the top of the list of ugly

[stevedeshazer]

19. Ultimate Mullet Mobile

[HeyManThatsCool]

36. More Mega Mullet

I can literally hear free byrd

[Bake]

63. Is that a Firebird Mulletmobile?

All those redundant hood scoops ...

Bake

[Dukkha]

52. ah, the IROC

Italian
Retard
Out
Cruisin'

[Kellanved]

96. Don't forget the Opel Manta

The German VoKuHiLa (Mullet) car:

[stevedeshazer]

99. Nutters! ROFL

Check out the shorts on the dude behind the car!

[Kellanved]

104. ouch

The hotpants or the colorful ones?

Here, a few more Vokuhilas:

[HeyManThatsCool]

20. Can't believe no one said this yet

The PINTO!

[tuvor]

24. Ooh, it's for SALE....

[stevedeshazer]

25. How did you find my house???

:)

[HeyManThatsCool]

26. The El Camino

[sakabatou]

32. The exploding car!

Excellent...

Does anyone remember that giant truck that came out... Looks like a towtruck. The Unimog, I think.

[Bake]

59. Oh c'mon, that's not "ugly" -- unless you get rear-ended!

Now THAT'S ugly.

Bake

[fishwax]

62. I always kind of liked the Pinto

as well as the Ford Maverick, another much-maligned model. I don't have any reasonable justification for liking either :)

[yellowcanine]

115. Hey, some rally wheels and some fuzzy dice and it might not be too

bad. Can someone photo shop it?

[yellowcanine]

117. Some of the old Nashes and Ramblers were pretty ugly and then

they merged to become AMC and they still made ugly cars.

[ironflange]

119. Pintos aren't ugly

Mrs. Ironflange drove one for many years, a '76 in the same light blue as that one. Go ahead, laugh. It had the V6 in it, and it could leave almost any other car standing when the light turned green.

I didn't like being tailgated in it, though.

[candy]

22. The Hudson!

[Moloch]

23. The El Camino.....

oh god it was awful.

[Califooyah Operative]

33. haha, i like el camino's,

maybe it's a california latino thing. i dunno,

[ronnykmarshall]

28. Looks like a lobster on wheels.

Good to eat, but not to drive.

[blue neen]

34. OMG, that car in your post is fugly.

It looks like some kind of a bug with pincers. Hideous.

[HeyManThatsCool]

38. Anyone remember THIS fugly car?

The VW Van- came out in the 80's?

[blue neen]

48. Oh yeah, that's nasty.

VW beat it with the ugly stick, then they stuck wheels on that look like they belong on a Matchbox car.

[BiggJawn]

93. Third Model Typ II...

They called it the "Vanagon", and it was a POS. Used the Rabbit engine, water cooled, Bosch "dribble-matic" fuel injection...
Funky suspension, too, no torsion bars...nasty-assed vehicle

THIS is a VW "van"....


And this is like the one I had...

[ironflange]

120. Slightly underpowered, those

When the hill gets steep, passengers have to start throwing non-essential items out so it will make it over the top.

[BiggJawn]

128. Just the split-window ones...

I had a 1700 cc. "Porsche motor" in mine. It WOULD "gitterdone" off the line..:evilgrin: And it climbed every hill I threw it at.

My '56, with it's "fire-breathing" 36 HP 1600, though....50 MPH with a brick on the go-fast pedal....

Damn, I miss my busses...;(

[SemiCharmedQuark]

39. Oh! The Chevy Avalanche!

I hate this car! I know it changes from a truch to an SUV...but it looks like a Tonka Truck.

[HeyManThatsCool]

42. The Ford Tempo

Bleh

[SemiCharmedQuark]

43. lol, you know a lot of these!

[HeyManThatsCool]

45. I love cars!

lol

[HeyManThatsCool]

44. Fiats new Mini Van

[SemiCharmedQuark]

46. Ugh...that...is the winner IMHO

[HeyManThatsCool]

50. Can u imagine someone paying for that?

Or worse, sitting at the drawing board and going EUREKA!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

105. One person? Yes.

What's more unbelievable IMHO is that a group of executives sat around a conference table and decided that they should, nay they MUST make this car.

[gauguin57]

77. Ewwww! Fiat van DEFINITELY the fugliest.

The Thing by Volkswagen was pretty sad,



but that Fiat minivan ... yeeech!

[HeyManThatsCool]

49. I am scared of this car

To this very day....

[Bake]

64. OK, that Fiat Minivan is DAMN UGLY!!

Eeeeeeeeeeeew!

Bake

[RaleighNCDem]

94. I had the Mercury version of that...

A 1991 Topaz. I had to replace the transmission twice. It broke down every other time that I drove home from college.

:D

[last_texas_dem]

78. Me, too!

Avalanches and Azteks are a couple of the ugliest vehicles I've ever seen. I'd give the top ugly honors to either one of them or the Hummer.

I think Gremlins are kinda neat looking, though, so maybe I should be disqualified from judging...!

[AllyCat]

81. And for a lot more money, you can get plastic matching the paint

and a little Cadillac emblem on the hood and an "Escalade" on the back. Same freakin' mobile, much larger price tag. Both hideous.

[ironflange]

121. I have one of those

Mrs. Ironflange's mid-life crisis vehicle. You're right, it's funny looking, but you can't tow a big trailer or haul a ton of gravel in a Civic.

[guitar man]

47. AMC Matador

I had one of these when I was young, all I could afford at the time. Mine was faded metallic green!

FUGLY!!!!

[blue neen]

51. AMC had a special talent when it came to making fugly cars!

Pacer, Gremlin, Matador. Whew!

[Bake]

66. Re: Matador -- Have you never heard of the Mazola Party???

That's where you get naked, pour Mazola Oil on the "fastback" and take turns sliding down it!

The Dodge Charger was also good for that.

Bake

[Beware the Beast Man]

87. AMCs, though, were a cool ugly.

Very 70's ugly. :)

[kmla]

116. I second that!!!! Damned ugly, that was

Scares me just to think about it...

[jdj]

53. The gremlin.

and the jeep eagle scout.

Does anyone know the name of that freakish cruck that chevy has that's about $40,000...the yellow one looks like something that one of those cooties in the cooties game we played as kids would drive.

[kmla]

118. I think you are thinking of the Avalanche.

And it's only fitting that they did name if after a disaster, doncha think?

[Dukkha]

54. The Yugo Screw Yourself

Yugo 3000 miles then Yugo buy a bike

[trogdor]

89. Yugo get out and push.

[Cush]

107. Yugo where your Yugo goes, which isn't very far

I used to say this all time when I was little

[Hand]

112. Good god...

I have never been able to comprehend why anyone would consider for more than, say, half a nanosecond, buying a Fiat clone manufactured in Yugoslavia... I mean, wouldn't it be simpler and cheaper just to walk everywhere, since you'd wind up doing that anyway?

I mean, "WTF COULD YOU HAVE BEEN THINKING?????????"

:evilgrin:

[ironflange]

124. Consumer Reports tested one once

They said you'd be better off buying a four-year-old Toyota than a new Yugo.

[Hand]

130. HAR!

You'd be better off buying roller skates!

:silly:

[Seabiscuit]

134. Yugo to hell and back on wheels

[CO Liberal]

60. My Nominee - the 1962 Dodge Dart

My kid sister had one as her first car - someone had given it to my father because he didn't need it any more. Hers was a four-door hardtop like the one in this ad, only white with a blue vinyl interior.

She used to say this car looked like it had been designed by a committee - the day after the annual Christmas Party.

[gauguin57]

75. No WAY, Man ... ANY Dodge Dart was BEAUTIFUL!

Did this '62 have that hydraulic transmission -- with the buttons you pushed on the steering column?

My first car was The Great Brown Magnet, a 1974 Dodge Dart -- milk chocolate-colored with a tan roof. Best car I EVER had. I miss that car to this day -- with the cigarette burns in the upholstery from my misspent youth, and the dings in the left front fender from a New York City taxicab. It WAS a magnet, because it attracted other cars.

Darts were beautiful. DAMMIT, I miss them so!

[CO Liberal]

85. Yes, It Had the Pushbutton Tranny

All Chrysler products did from the mid-'50s through 1964. They went back to regular shifters in 1965, after they realized that they were losing sales to driving schools.

Darts were nice from 1963 on - that's when it became a compact. The '62 was a mid-sized car. And the earlier Darts were full-size and even uglier, as shown in the ad below.

[GRLMGC]

65. Scion

That fucking thing is a box on wheels, its so ugly.

[Bake]

67. Oh man, I would've nominated the Scion if I could have remembered

what the damn thing was called! A cardboard box on wheels. Makes the Honda Element look STYLISH!!!!

NASTY!!

On edit: I saw one on the road the other day and had to pull over to puke!!

Bake

[GRLMGC]

71. I saw one that was a woody

I'm not kidding

[msgadget]

123. What were they thinking to square it out like that??

It looks unwieldy and waaay too low to the ground. The interior is butt ugly...really, really bad design.

[CO Liberal]

69. The 1971 Buick Riviera

Fastback roofs looked cute on small cars, but bizarre on larger ones.

[CO Liberal]

72. Almost Forgot the AMC Marlin

The fastback roof looked cute when AMC had a show car like this based on their small car, the Rambler American. But when they went into production, they based it on the mid-sized Rambler Classic. Later on (for its last year of production), they based it on the full-sized Ambassador, and that one was just plain hideous.


1965-66 Marlin



1967 Marlin

[Bake]

76. The Marlin! Now THERE'S a Mazola Party waiting to happen!

See my post above for definition of Mazola Party.

Bake

[EstimatedProphet]

74. No one has mentioned the International CXT

Designed to make sure that the Hummer H2 looks comparatively economical on gas...

[AllyCat]

83. That is a nightmare

[HEyHEY]

82. The bricklin

[Wapsie B]

84. The Rambler!

[mattclearing]

86. The Homer is the Ugliest Car Ever Created.

"In the classic episode of The Simpsons where Homer meets his long lost brother, he gets to design his dream car. Well it turned out to be so good we had to include it here. Unfortunately for homer it cost $82,000 to build and ruined his brother's business - but at least it played 'La Cucaracha' when he sounded the horn. There is no truth in the rumour that Citroen tried to license the design."

http://www.uglycars.co.uk/guest.asp

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

88. A butt-fugly Formula One car: the 1984 Williams.

[Kellanved]

90. Fiat Multipla

[spinbaby]

91. Yellow Aztek

[El Fuego]

92. I think the Prowler is kind of cool looking.... nt

[DelawareValleyDem]

95. The Vega was ugly

and it ran even worse than it looked.

[Eagle_Eye]

97. Madox had a web page about ugly cars

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=ugly_cars

[loudestchick]

100. lots of issues on that site...rofl

[arwalden]

102. VW "Thing"

[jakpalmer]

108. Does this qualify as a car ?

4 wheels, a steering wheel...



More: http://www.lexam.net/peter/carnut/oddball.html">Peters Oddball and Micro Car Page

[Jessica]

109. Eagle Wagon.

x(

[terrya]

110. The Checker. Taxi cabs.

Checker did make cars for the general population, besides taxis. Apparently, they lasted forever...but they were still ugly.

T

[arkie dem]

113. Any late 50's auto with

Fins..!!!
Especially hated the 59 Chevy.

[Touchdown]

125. Like this one? The '58 Plymouth Fury

"You can't polish a turd!" -Stephen King; Christine.

[arkie dem]

127. Yep... like that one

[Touchdown]

126. Nobody mentioned the Mustang II yet?

What's wrong with you people? Presented in the most popular color, dog shit brown.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

133. LOL

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

132. Merkur XR4Ti

Absolute POS.

[ok_cpu]

135. How about the Ford Festiva truck?

There's gotta be room for two grocery bags back there.