Ugly Cars: A Picture Thread

I still stand by my previous assertion re: Caddys.

I can't find a picture to do it justice, but when I was car-shopping this past August, the lot full of unsold 2008 Ford F-150s and F-250s seemed like the ugliest thing ever.

I think I've only ever seen one of these on the street in the US, and am only familiar with it from browsing the model kit aisles in K-Mart as a kid:

Ah, Merkur. That was Ford's attempt to compete with BMW and Mercedes in the US, by importing German-made Fords and giving them a German-sounding name. Didn't work.

I can't find a picture to do it justice, but when I was car-shopping this past August, the lot full of unsold 2008 Ford F-150s and F-250s seemed like the ugliest thing ever.

Even uglier... A lot of unsold Hummers

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/01/business/01gm2-650.jpg

Better unsold than sold.

Chevrolet SSR: The redneck roadster.

http://www.desktopcar.net/chevrolet/ssr/Chevrolet-SSR05.jpg

Omnis, Colts & LeCars (which I actually sorta like) have nothing on the early-to-mid-90s Geo Metro, easily the most turdish of all unfortunate sub-compacts IMO:

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/06/23-End%20of%20Month/Geo%20Metro.jpg

All circles and squares

http://blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/1973travellall_01_resized.jpg

When gas went up over $4, people were buying old Metros like crazy. 40mpg or something iirc.

anybody a fan of the fiero? I am not

http://dtcc.cz28.com/85FieroL36/85fieroL36b.jpg

There's a salvage yard in N. Alabama that's strictly Fieros. I'll take a pic when I'm there at xmas.

I remember having a crush on someone who had a Fiero. A red one. I don't think anything ever came of that crush, though.

In the HBO show Entourage, the character Turtle had a yellow Fiero in high-school. He blames it for his inability to get girls.

I've always been torn over the Avanti

http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/123059/2156496/2156497/070613_GB_AvantiEX.jpg

anybody a fan of the fiero? I am not

I'll see your Fiero and raise you an additional Reatta

http://imgs.getauto.com/imgs/ag/ga/09/93/1/1G4EC13L0MB900993-1.jpg

Johnny the Fiero Factory in Toney, AL has a website
http://www.thefierofactory.com/gallery/index.htm

Ha! I guess everybody has a website. That's about 3 miles from my uncle's house.

I love that the Reatta is a "Make Offer" car.

I've always been torn over the Avanti

I've always liked the original 60s-era Avantis, but later attempts to keep the marque going post-Studebaker and increasing NHTSA-hostility weren't so good.

This is downright painful

http://www.ssip.net/upload/avanti-convertible-1_30.jpg

http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2008/06/conti-k-car.jpg

OMGWTFLOL

that's kinda so bad it's good

http://www.ssip.net/upload/avanti-convertible-1_30.jpg

This is downright painful

Ugh, no argument there.

this is apparently some car from 78, but it must have influenced a lot of young car designers. it's looks new.

http://www.carsandtuning.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/midas-coupe.jpg

it's the velvet underground of cars.

http://www.motorauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/Mercedes_Benz/Spy_Shots/GLK/2/MB_GLK_v_update.jpg

I fear this is gonna be huge, but that's because COME ON, PEOPLE, WAS THERE EVER AN UGLIER CAR?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Austin_Allegro_Brown_1.JPG/800px-Austin_Allegro_Brown_1.JPG

Also: SQUARE STEERING WHEEL.

it's cute

WAS THERE EVER AN UGLIER CAR?

Actually: the estate was even worse:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Austin_Allegro_Estate_UK.JPG/800px-Austin_Allegro_Estate_UK.JPG

it's cute

You wouldn't be saying that if you were wrestling with the SQUARE STEERING WHEEL.

Squ-- what? WHAT?!?

http://www.channel4.com/4car/media/classics/austin-allegro/03-large/allegro-colin-cork-007.jpg

Stupidest. Fucking. Car. Ever.

And y'know what? I really want one :)

Awwwwwww that's not rly square. It just kind of...suggests a square. I like it.

Awwwwwww that's not rly square. It just kind of...suggests a square

HAHAH. If only British Leyland had come up with that as a slogan!

It's called a Quartic steering wheel. Supposedly it's that shape to give a better view of the instruments. All bloody four of them...

Anyway, I see your Allegro and raise you a Renault 14...
http://www.leblogauto.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/Joest_O/pub_renault_14_poire.jpg
...nicknamed the pear, although really it was a lemon. My dad had one, it was a backfiring corner-rolling rust magnet.

Also I've just noticed that the guy driving that Allegro is a priest. For some bizarre reason every other Allegro I remember seeing was driven by a priest.

They had a cross-promotion deal with the Pope.

...which segues nicely onto this, the Rover 213/216
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Rower_213SE_white_vl.jpg/250px-Rower_213SE_white_vl.jpg

This thread is some bullshit. The ugliest cars by a goddamn street are the identikit family saloon plastic comfortmobiles. I give you:

http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/images/ford-focus-2008-3-big.jpg

And the ugliest Allegro model ever, the "luxury" Vanden Plas
http://www.channel4.com/4car/media-legacy/featpics/topten/w1allegro.jpg
Basically a standard Allegro with a huge chrome grill stuck on the front. Sort of looks like the kind of thing that teenage lads who customise their crappy cars would do, if they wanted their rides to look a little bit like Rolls Royces rather than Mitsubishi Evos.

Nah, that's not so bad. I wouldn't buy one, but I wouldn't spontaneously vomit if I saw it on the street. xp

Ford are consistent offenders, truth be told. The Mondeo was mediocrity itself, and the Ka is unspeakable.

ughhh it is the rodent of cars squash it squash it

http://www.thatcanadiangirl.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/ka_big.JPG

Anyway, I see your Allegro and raise you a Renault 14...

No way! I love the 1970s Renaults, every last one of them. The 16, in particular, was a sheer joy.

http://www.leblogauto.com/images/renault16_tl.jpg

Cf also the Citroen GS and CX, cars that make me weep with joy. (I'm not mentioning the DS because it's a bona fide classic; the later GS and CX are always overlooked.)

Yeah, the Ka was posted somewhere above. Thank goodness it's not being marketed in the US.

The 16 is a cool cucumber!

It's a genuinely beautiful car, and actually has no place on this thread ;)

I'm generally anti-chrome, but make exceptions for old, small Euro/Scandinavian cars.

The 14 is dreadful. Mechanical and rust problems aside, the back end just looks like the designers got bored and said "oh well, whatever" (Gallic shrug), and drew in that huge bulge. And precisely why I think it's so dreadful is that with a little more thought it could have looked amazing. The view from the side is so almost there, but instead of looking like a sleek shark, it's a beached whale.