No one has made uglier ultra-luxury cars than the revived Maybach:
http://www.carforums.net/reviews/makes/pictures/maybach08.jpg
― Indiespace Administratester (Hurting 2), Friday, 5 December 2008 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link
"Hi, I'm a cross between the ugly early 2000s Benz and the monopoly car"http://www.news-blogs.com/_images/auto/maybach_57_2006.jpg
― Indiespace Administratester (Hurting 2), Friday, 5 December 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Looks like someone melted and stretched a regular car.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha jon stewart just said he drove an amc gremlin in high school -- "the gremlin existed so drivers of the pinto could have something to shit on"
― Realistic Replicas of Incendiaries (get bent), Friday, 5 December 2008 04:09 (fifteen years ago) link
1985 mosler consulier GTP
http://img.timeinc.net/time/2007/50_cars/gtp1.jpg
― Realistic Replicas of Incendiaries (get bent), Friday, 5 December 2008 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
that is terrible!
still can't believe that porsche shit-canned their racing activities (that give their road cars the race-tested aura) for a few years to produce the cayenne
― fela cooties (haitch), Friday, 5 December 2008 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
subaru's 'jet-inspired' coupe of the '80s, variously called alcyone, XT or vortex:
http://images.drom.ru/reviews/photos/subaru/alcyone/alc4.JPG
― fela cooties (haitch), Friday, 5 December 2008 04:47 (fifteen years ago) link
worst-looking rally car of all time, the citroen BX 4TC
http://www.groupbrally.com/images/citroen/citroen_bx4tc_small.jpg
― fela cooties (haitch), Friday, 5 December 2008 04:53 (fifteen years ago) link
road version: even uglier!
http://koti.mbnet.fi/css/bx/4tc-3.jpg
― fela cooties (haitch), Friday, 5 December 2008 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
It's clear that someone in Citroen said "let's build something exactly like an Audi, but make it ugly to throw people off the scent."
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
My first car: behold, the 1969 Austin 1800 MkII
http://www.aronline.co.uk/images/1800_05.jpg
Inherited from my grandmother. Tractor-sized steering wheel...big long spindly floor shift...manual choke, UGH...steered like a TANK...resplendent in shiny poo brown.... but goddamn I loved that car. Everyone I knew laughed at it, but all my tall friends secretly loved it because they never had to put the seat back when they sat in the front seat. Deceptively roomy.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 5 December 2008 05:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Throw in power steering and automatic transmission, and that car's just fine!
― David R., Friday, 5 December 2008 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
that's not ugly!
― Realistic Replicas of Incendiaries (get bent), Friday, 5 December 2008 05:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I wouldn't kick that car out of the garage.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 05:50 (fifteen years ago) link
It looks almost like a VW Squareback with different cosmetics.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 05:51 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah definitely. the grill is kind of busy but it seems pretty solid
― but this is ridiculous! (tremendoid), Friday, 5 December 2008 05:58 (fifteen years ago) link
awww. I've never seen so much Austin love in one place. You guys rule.Back in the day it was hailed as a 'triumph of engineering over design'. Its nickname was 'the land crab'.
xpost David R: automatic transmission entailed a crazy little flip switch on the dash console. Which, given the angle of the steering wheel and depth of the seats, always sounded kinda awkward to me. Not convinced autotrans was the way to go though. My girl was heav-y...you need the guts of the manual tranny to get it over the hills.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 5 December 2008 06:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I love how French auto design departments are so willfully insane. Here's a Peugeot 308RC.. still trying to clone a Audi (the TT I'm guessing) but just so utterly unholy in its wrongness.
http://www.carpages.co.uk/peugeot/peugeot_images/peugeot_308_rcz_05_08_07.jpg
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 December 2008 06:11 (fifteen years ago) link
It's funny how real cars are starting to look more and more like Hot Wheels.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 06:16 (fifteen years ago) link
that citroen rally car looks like someone just took a regular, shitty citroen wagon, nailed a spoiler on the back and slapped on some decals. And the road version looks like its door is smashed in.
― Indiespace Administratester (Hurting 2), Friday, 5 December 2008 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link
that citroen rally car looks like someone just took a regular, shitty citroen wagon, nailed a spoiler on the back and slapped on some decals
Er, that's because ... :)
I didn't mind the BX, actually. It wasn't a patch on what came before it, but it was still a little bit interesting, as opposed to the tedium Citroen churns out now. Indeed, this:
http://www.greencarsite.co.uk/GREENCARS/green-cars-photos/citroen-xsara-picasso-hdi.jpg
is a car I loathe so much I barely have the words. There's something about the rear view:
http://foto.autozone.be/fotoseurotax/450/citroen-xsara-picasso-diesel-2004-4475.jpg
that really offends me. And that - ^ - is the kind of view you tend to see a lot, ie stuck in the middle of a road with the brake lights on and the indicators doing something mental, because these things (and apologies if anyone round here has one -- BUT REALLY, GO AND GET A BETTER CAR, PLEASE -- seem so often to be driven by brain-dead fucks in their early 50s, for whom the Highway Code is but a distant memory).
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 5 December 2008 10:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Chris B.'s choices baffling to me, until I remember his picks for a beautiful car thread on here. He gets major points for consistency, although I think he lives in crazy upside-down land. (Well, ok, the X6 IS an abomination.) More seriously, the Mercedes GLK and the Citroen C6 work a lot better in the metal than in pictures -- maybe you've never seen them on the road?
Anyway: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.saxby/marcos/mini.jpg
― Three Word Username, Friday, 5 December 2008 10:22 (fifteen years ago) link
"Hi, I'm a cross between the ugly early 2000s Benz and the monopoly car"
I think those Maybachs are pretty nice.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
HI DERE
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Ford_Scorpio_1995_Taxi_hl.jpg
― tissp, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, is the windscreen on the wrong end?
― tissp, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
some fucked up perspective going on there otherwise
it seems to have an ass crack for a roof
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Friday, 5 December 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i think that's what the sterling was based on
The Sterling is considerably larger than the 213 or 216. Our neighbour had one. But it does share that same "big ugly slabs of plastic along the doors" look.
resplendent in shiny poo brown
The Maxi is one of those cars that looks good, as long as the chrome's kept shiny and the paint isn't brown. See also...http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Vauxhall_Chevette_loved_by_learners.JPG/800px-Vauxhall_Chevette_loved_by_learners.JPG
― snoball, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ Vauxhall Chevette - that's a later one. Earlier ones had big shiny chrome hubcaps like flying saucers. Problem was that most of them were 70's diarrhoea brown and rusted to hell.
― snoball, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I was a big fan of the Chevette. My late great-uncle had a P-reg Opel Kadett saloon (the Kadett being the same car as the Chevette, and obviously sporting interesting phonotactic similarities, too; that said I never quite understood the point of being able to buy both Opel- and Vauxhall-branded vehicles in the UK, and obviously GM agreed because they canned that idea in the eighties). I loved it, especially the weird plastic flaps on the rear pillars, one of which opened up to reveal the fuel nozzle.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Vauxhall_Chevette_Sedanlette.jpg
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
So many of these look fucking cool. Including the Mustang II.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
It helps that I had toy version of a lot of the 70s cars, the AMC Pacer included.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
entertaining racing but ugly - the Daytona Prototype
http://www.autocult.com.au/img/gallery/CARmageddon690.jpg
― brownie, Friday, 5 December 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, erm streamlined?
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Friday, 5 December 2008 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
it kinda reminds me of this
http://misc.kitreview.com/shipreviews/images/ussmonitorreviewbg_1.jpg
― brownie, Friday, 5 December 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.ukcar.com/road_tests/mazda/demio/Demio1.jpg
this is the car i drive. (sans bumper and in muddy green)
boringest cah evah
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 5 December 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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, 5 December 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Nothing says "upgraded rental" like a Chrysler Sebring
http://www.theautochannel.com/media/photos/chrysler/1998/98_chrysler_sebring_conv_jxi.jpg
― Indiespace Administratester (Hurting 2), Friday, 5 December 2008 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
"Sebring" sounds like medical shorthand for a really unpleasant condition; one I don't actually want to imagine, but can't help doing now.
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
All those square Scion cars bother me.
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5909/scioncarsjz9.jpg
― svend, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
^no
― Super Cub, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, any Scion which isn't a tC is pretty gross. And I'm not even convinced by the tC anymore, which has become boring in its own way.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I hate everything about this vehicle
http://www.horizonluxurycars.com/used_cars_images/2004_Chevrolet_Avalanche_1500.jpg
― Super Cub, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
my "no" meant no, it's not ugly. Love that thing.
― Super Cub, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
My old boss drove one of the Chevy Z71 things. He was a huge asshole.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a KA! i think its homely! glad its in black though.
― slap bass: the ungentle art (stevie), Friday, 5 December 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
the grill of both the ford focus and the kia amanti are truly ugly
(i've got images off, sorry if these were mentioned)
― goole, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
the Z71 is one of those vehicles that I'm sure lots of people purchase for its functionality, but you can pretty much guarantee any one who owns but doesn't 'need' is indeed a huge asshole.
― my inbox so hot (will), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://hembaba.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/toyota-prius-hybrid.jpg
― shortwave (rockapads), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, is there any reason Toyota had to make the Prius as ugly as they made it?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link