Top 3 ugliest production car thread.

[BuzzKillington]

Title says it all. List your top three ugliest production cars. Must be stock otherwise I have a feeling it'd be a thread full of rice-mobiles with their 3 foot long wings and all that jazz. http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4989/uglycarpictures56w.jpg

Here it goes...


VW Thing. (Although to be fair, they make some SEXY sand toys)
http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/1300/newvwthing3.jpg
Hyundai Tiburon. (1996–2001) The waves everywhere is just ridiculous. The 2002's aren't too shabby though... I'd drive one.
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6199/autodataibsrvnet.jpg
Saleen. These things look like a 6 year old got ahold of a butter knife on their clay model and start cutting gills everywhere. I don't care if they're functional. There are more capable cars without them. Hideously overdone.
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/6591/tbsaleenlg.jpg

[OvRiDe]

I guess when it comes to anything .. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.


I don't care if they're functional. There are more capable cars without them. Hideously overdone.
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/6591/tbsaleenlg.jpg

As for others more capable and hideously overdone. Well as far as I know, the S7 is the only production car that can create enough down force to equal the weight of the car. So at 160 MPH the car could actually drive on an inverted plane. This was accomplished by using all of those vents and scoops.

[crenn]

To be honest, I like the look of that Saleen

[mDust]

Buzz, you're dead to me only because of the S7 comment.:D
OvRiDe, you took the words right out of my mouth. The S7 is the most incredible production car ever. I don't care if another car that costs 4 times as much can go 5 mph faster with 2-4 more cylinders...

How about the Dodge Rampage instead?
Here's the '83 model that was produced:
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/8747/dodgerampageorig.jpg
And here's the '06 concept they were thinking of bringing back:
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/271/dodgerampage.jpg

[Luke122]

SHUT YOUR MOUTH! DO NOT BADMOUTH THE RAMPAGE!!!! *&^%^%!$@#^%$@!#!@#

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Sorry.. I have a lot of love for those things. Yes, they were technically hemaphrodites, but they were also small, light, and cheap. With the same base engine as a Daytona, you could drop in a turbocharged mill, and push 300hp at the wheels pretty easy.. and run 11 second quarters all day with wheelspin all the way down the track.

[slaveofconvention]

Fiat Multipla.....

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/slaveofconvention/imagestore/multipla.jpg

Nuff said... :P

[x88x]

Well as far as I know, the S7 is the only production car that can create enough down force to equal the weight of the car. So at 160 MPH the car could actually drive on an inverted plane. This was accomplished by using all of those vents and scoops.

Gumpert also says their Apollo Sport can do that, and I seem to remember some other cat that was supposed to be able to do that... Problem is, nobody's ever tested any of them, so it's all just blowing hot air. :P

Gumpert Apollo Sport:
http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq3/x13931x/GUMPERT-APOLLO-SPORT-FULL.jpg

As for the ugliest, I think the Mercedes Bionic Fish concept is a pretty good candidate.
http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq3/x13931x/Mercedes-bionic-fish-concept.jpg

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

http://www.carblog.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/2009-nissan-denki-cube.jpg



nissan cube... ugly as sin.....

[x88x]

Hmm, you may have a point there...idk which bugs me about it more, the asymmetry or the ...cube..ness..

[slaveofconvention]

I think it's the utter LACK of any real design whatsoever....

[mDust]

I think it's the utter LACK of any real design whatsoever....

I picture the designer sitting at a drawing board, out of ideas. His 4 year old daughter runs up with a crayon drawing of a car and a stick-family. A light bulb lights over his head as he looks at it...


SHUT YOUR MOUTH! DO NOT BADMOUTH THE RAMPAGE!!!! *&^%^%!$@#^%$@!#!@#
It's a good thing others posted uglier cars because I would have had to second my own nomination of the Rampage. :D

[BuzzKillington]

I've seen an attempt at a Dodge Rampage look-a-like. It was an s10 with a camero front end. It was hilarious!!!

[Mark_Hardware]

I've seen an attempt at a Dodge Rampage look-a-like. It was an s10 with a camero front end. It was hilarious!!!

Now THAT, I want to see!

[Snowman]

VW Thing. (Although to be fair, they make some SEXY sand toys)
http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/1300/newvwthing3.jpg

For this reason, we would never be friends.... I had an entire summer I spent trying to talk my parents into letting me buy my neighbors thing... it was the model that you could float the ohio river in if you wanted to.

[artoodeeto]

AMC Gremlin:
http://jimburgan71.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/76gremlin.jpg

Pontiac Aztek:
http://www.go4x4.eu/home/images/Flop/5.jpg

And I'll second Slave's Fiat post. I saw them all over the place when I was in Italy earlier this month, and they seriously looked like they were designed by a committee....of 3 year olds.

Oh yeah...and remember those wonderful Volvo 240's? Might have been very safe cars. But certainly not gonna win any beauty contests:
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd188/alien_dna/cars/volvo-244-1974.jpg

[Luke122]

Good thing Omega's not here.. he'd be all over you for nominating the 240. :D

Pontiac Aztek wins, hands down.

[artoodeeto]

Good thing Omega's not here.. he'd be all over you for nominating the 240. :D

LOL - I'm only nominating on looks, and even then it's just my opinion. I almost put the Pagani Zonda on here... :whistler:

and yeah, that Aztek. I've seen them out on the road, and my thoughts go like this;
"Who the @$@$@$@@ designed such an incredibly @$@$#$$@!@@1 - looking car????"

"Who the heck BOUGHT such a !#!@#!@@$@$ looking car???????"

[x88x]

I almost put the Pagani Zonda on here... :whistler:

*forehead vein starts twitching* ...NOURWRONGR2BADR2BAD!ZONDAPRETTYCARPRETTY! :bash:

..ok, I'm done. :P

[artoodeeto]

*forehead vein starts twitching* ...NOURWRONGR2BADR2BAD!ZONDAPRETTYCARPRETTY! :bash:

..ok, I'm done. :P

Yeah, I figured that'd be the general reaction. :rolleyes: My feeling about it is more along the lines of, if I had that kind of money I'd much rather buy a lamborghini diablo or gallardo and a Factory 5 GTM. :D

[billygoat333]

I've seen an attempt at a Dodge Rampage look-a-like. It was an s10 with a camero front end. It was hilarious!!!

since it was a chevy... wouldn't it be an el camino look alike? ;)

[msmrx57]

since it was a chevy... wouldn't it be an el camino look alike? ;)

Speaking of ugly cars......

[artoodeeto]

yeah that was another one I almost put up. then I remembered the Gremlin and Aztek. :P

[DaveW]

Fiat Multipla is easily the ugliest production car in the world. It looks like two different engineers designed the top and the bottom, and only collaborated around the water tower without ever looking at each others designs.

It's not going to make me popular but I think this is the second ugliest car.

http://www.thecartorialist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mclaren_mercedes_slr_angle_front.jpg

There are very few companies that design nice cars these days.

-Dave

[x88x]

Lol, the Mclaren F1 is definitely a very...unusual design. Personally I like it though. :P It does take a bit of getting used to though.

[slaveofconvention]

The worst thing about the multipla though, is that they're really nice cars to drive. They're nippy, very comfortable, 6 seats and by Fiat standards, pretty reliable too - just a damned shame about the outer shell!!!

[Collinstheclown]

Oh yeah...and remember those wonderful Volvo 240's? Might have been very safe cars. But certainly not gonna win any beauty contests:
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd188/alien_dna/cars/volvo-244-1974.jpg

Oh no you didn't....
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d133/CollinstheClown/Cars/93%20Volvo%20240/DSC03405.jpg




-CollinstheClown

[dr.walrus]

Plymouth superbird

https://www.sportiqueautoonline.com/images/1970_superbird_lime_green.jpg

That said, the superbird looks BEAUTIFUL next to some of the munters in this thread

[NightrainSrt4]

Dodge SRT-4
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7659/srta.jpg

By far the ugliest vehicle on the planet.

Edit: Was joking on this one, as it is my vehicle. Though many have exclaimed the above, lol.

[BuzzKillington]

I want a 1974 BMW 2002. They're so ugly yet so awesome. That or a Datsun 510.

[SXRguyinMA]

plymouth k-body

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBHOObUzwi7JMRqjCwNBI50mNfWFIH8 jebTlN-RRKy5euYYa8&t=1&usg=__dl76GRaQTfHFwgBvqWKKqJUajcM=

[Spawn-Inc]

http://carroseminis.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/ford_gt40.jpg



:) i would put all of ford, but they make a few good ones, not many though...

[billygoat333]

http://www.fordmustangsite.com/images/2Gen-mustang3.jpg

nasty 70s mustang. in fact, anything from like ~72 to about 94 is hideous.