Ugly Cars: A Picture Thread

Yeah, is there any reason Toyota had to make the Prius as ugly as they made it?

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, December 6, 2008 5:08 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

A hybrid prototypey car probably needed to have a hybrid prototypey design. Hybrid cars were so new and omg fascinating then that to scream 'LOOK AT ME I AM INTERESTING AND WEIRD' would have been advantageous.

while i would happily take a prius if someone were to give me one, had i the $$$, i would definitely go the honda civic hybrid route. prius is kinda fugly.

"So in sane right-side up land the Panamera and the Eclat are good looking?"

Yes. Also the GLK looks good because it is small, for what it's worth.

Got it. I just have to consistently take the opposite of what you like then.

Mercedes GLK = boring-ass dreadful. Does the world really need a Mercedes version of a BMW X3 / Grand Cherokee? ATTENTION M-B stop building me-too cars that no one wants and get to producing the conceptFascination

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/09/mb_conceptfasc_450.jpg

I thought the horribleness of the Prius was because of the need to make it super aerodymanic.

xp Looks like a rounder Magnum to me...

http://www.autobytel.com/images/2006/Dodge/Magnum_SRT8/Lyons/400/2006_Dodge_magnum_front1_lr.jpg

I can't even imagine the cost for a new set of tires for half of these cars.

It doesn't drop off in the back as radically as the Magnum does. It's also a two-door, so it's not quite as long.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/3073051950_3f4cac4a7c.jpg

that Caprice is awesome

I currently drive a 2003 Malibu but my favorite of all the cars I've driven was the 1995 chevy lumina- good in the snow and drove nice (took forever to warm up tho)

http://www.governmentauctions.org/uploaded_images/lumina-741796.jpg

Just saw a tv commercial for this: the Kia "Soul"

http://www.cars-bikes.info/d/1747-2/kia-soul-001.jpg

xpost-

That's why I'm glad that we have a first-generation Prius, because they just look like slightly generic cars, no "geewhiz I'm a hybrid" attention seeking design. The newer ones do have way nicer interiors though, it must be said.

(xpost) that Kia looks like a prop from "Demolition Man"

hyundai coupe
http://media.motortopia.com/files/7852/vehicle/46c091c4412af/Rollin_Medium.jpg

Oh, the famed Amerikanische Wirtschaft and its ugly Automobile

I love each and every single one of those

I see Saturn! The car! Everywhere we are!

http://www.auto123.com/ArtImages/93569/2009-Saturn-Vue-Hybrid-i008.jpg

HOLY SHIT, YOU GUYS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfguWbuzVmY

1957 AURORA

what in the hell...

that grille is...does it double as a snow plow? Is that an extra seat for a small child? christ on a cracker that is freaky

side note: I passed a Kia Soul on the freeway today and have decided that Kia's design aesthetic is 'make all our cars look like they are inflatable'

back on the Aurora

It looks like a real-life animated car

"HEY HOW YA DOIN GUYZ"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(1957_automobile)

The most innovative safety feature, which has not been incorporated into other cars, was the ability to swivel the seats to face rearwards should a collision seem imminent.[1]

Haha!

I was just gonna say that car would immediately look better if they just flipped it around. but the swivel seats confirm that somebody was a bit confused.

The weird bugout windshield is the thing that gets me, even more than the scoop bumper on the front. Also, SIX headlights.

appaz the bugout windshield was so ppl didn't bang their heads in an acident -- and the scoop bumper is made of foam

totally a safety car

hence it's ugliness, lol (ie cf Volvo)

It looks like a real-life animated car

http://www.ballerride.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/the-homer-car-simpsons-powell-motors.bmp

CRAZY VACLAV'S PLACE OF AUTOMOBILES 'She'll go 3000 hectares on a single tank of kerosene'

'Put it in H!'

oh wait, different car

but still, my favorite Simpsons moment

"What country is this car from?" "It...no longer exists."

Love that scene. Every time I give my friend a ride (who shares my Simpsons obsession), when we get in the car he says, "Put it in H!" And when we get out he says, "Remember: were in the Itchy lot."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Microdot_1976.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Toyota_Van_%2780s.jpg

http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/product_media/40000978/image7/440x330-rear34.jpg

It seems to be a thing these days to give cars fat arses with sticky-out lights, and this Lexus is the worst. Also the wheels don't seem to fit the size of the car, but I'm not sure if they're too big or too small, they just look wrong.

Imagine being the person who thought this would look good

http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/9623644b-7676-42f4-a463-cacef65296f9/Large%20Image.jpg?p=110117_04:14

and then having to carry on seeing your handiwork in the wild and being all 'yep, I did well that day'.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just take a picture of someone taking a dump on an 1800ES? Because designing and manufacturing a shitty "homage" is a really inefficient way of achieving the same result.
http://de.allcardb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/3-volvo-c301.jpg

^^I think the first recent re-occurance of tail-lights needlessly sticking out from the body.

I quite like the C30 but also I think what is the point?

I saw the most disgusting bodykit on a Mercedes CLS recently but thankfully I can't find anything on GIS that's remotely like it.

Those toyota vans are kind of cool imo, i was just down in Costa Rica and you still see a lot of those down there. my first car arguably ugly but i still love it. those hubcaps were expensive.

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l132/TateG/84GLifront-1.jpg

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l132/TateG/84GLifront-1.jpg

I like that Lexus hatch, and I typically think all Lexuses are gross.

I agree that the Volvo "reimagine" of the 1800es is barfy, though.

i hate you all for making me notice every single new car with stick-outy tailight design on my drive home

sweet thread

wondering how this post went uncommented upon

Thank you, Mazda, for not even bothering to market that car in America.

Although, my favorite car I've ever had was a 323 Wagon that looked something like this:

http://i38.tinypic.com/2u89ys1.jpg

...except it wasn't beat all to hell, had alloy wheels and a sunroof.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, December 5, 2008 12:10 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol tinypic has a nasty habit of purging images and then reassigning the old names to newly uploaded images.

theyre looking at you like alloy wheels and a sunroof, thats right buddy

hahah

BMW 600

This is what a Bimmer looked like in 1959:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/BMW_600_Rear.jpg

Not sure which is worse: how hideous it looked, or the contortions necessary just to get in the thing:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/BMW_600%2C_p2.jpg/800px-BMW_600%2C_p2.jpg

1976 Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Lest anyone miss it otherwise, let's use a second paint color to further accentuate the misshapen lump on the fenders

http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/7219885664_c7a8e18b21_c-e1339616767443.jpg

Apparently any BMW 'X' model is a fugly bulbous SUV wannabe. All SUVs are gross but these really offend me.

http://turboteka.pl/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Futur-BMW-X-X2-X4-de-2013-a-2015.jpg

http://www.autoindiaforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bmw-x6.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1xxUl.jpg

^^very 'mad max'