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
ford focus was mentioned, in fact ford as a whole was condemned
― country matters, Friday, 5 December 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
omg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e327/oldschool92/caprice004.jpg
― shortwave (rockapads), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
that has an awesome affinity to the humble platypus
― country matters, Friday, 5 December 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
o don't go knockin the caprice now
― goole, Friday, 5 December 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2008/07/Ten-Ugly-Compass.jpg
― Your original display name will be displayed in brackets. (dan m), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
That looks like a "future" car from some sci-fi movie made in 1964. xxp
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
It's 1980!http://ufoseries.com/hardware/strakersCar.jpger, except it isn't...
― snoball, Friday, 5 December 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it just me, or was much of today's rough and tumble US car/truck aesthetic inspired by the Sony "Sports" Walkman school of design:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/712BRX9Y5AL._SL500_AA280_.gif
― The Most Photographed Barn on the Internet (Pillbox), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I think you're on to something.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 18:41 (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?
So in sane right-side up land the Panamera and the Eclat are good looking?
I saw lots of C6s when I was in Europe last year and bulbous back end reminded me too much of the final series of Pontiac Bonnevilles. The new C5s look good though.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 December 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it just me, or do most of the coupe/fastback four-door sedans all look like different spin-offs of early-80s Rovers?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Rover_SD1_series1B_rear.jpg
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 December 2008 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
It's just you. The Rover SD1 is a thing of incredible loveliness; if more cars looked like that, I'd be a happy man.
Well. Happier.
Occasionally, when I was thinking about cars.
Which isn't often at all, actually.
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 5 December 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
"He thought of cars.."
― The Most Photographed Barn on the Internet (Pillbox), Friday, 5 December 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
The Rover SD1 is a thing of incredible loveliness; if more cars looked like that, I'd be a happy man.
So would I, except when it's the Prius (#1 on my list of "cars that will look incredibly dated in five years")
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 December 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I was behind a Prius the other night; I actually found myself thinking: "That's quite a nice-looking car."
Mind you, it was dark and incredibly foggy.
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I have ridden in so many of these cars. One dude I knew in high school actually had two Renault Alliances before he got a Dodge Aspen. Another friend's Colt caught on fire in front of a Chinese restaurant.
But the Prowler - I had forgotten that one. The company I worked for in 1997 did Plymouth's website and I spent a couple days cutting a photo of that car into a nested-table javascript-rollover monstrosity. So horrible:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980113130008/www.plymouthcars.com/nav/fs_master.html?contentPage=/prowler/
― a better command of the mummy language (joygoat), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
did rover start that style? ain't no rovers in the US (aside from the "sterling")...we first saw this design with the chevy citation:http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/chevrolet-citation-3.jpgtypcal of GMs of the era (1975-present), it found new and innovative ways to fall apart.
― Lawrence the Looter, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
^ My first car, a 1981 model, various shades of blue.
― a better command of the mummy language (joygoat), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Aren't you just asking for trouble by driving a vehicle called a "Citation?" BTW, my sister used to drive one, & for years she had to start it by opening the hood and doing something involving a ballpoint pen.
― The Most Photographed Barn on the Internet (Pillbox), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
This was the car my family had when I was a kid (age 0-9 or so). I remembered it being a behemoth of a car, but I saw one in a parking lot the other day and it didn't really seem so huge at all.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Oldsmobile-Cutlass-Sedan.jpg/800px-Oldsmobile-Cutlass-Sedan.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember reading an article in Automobile magazine a long time ago that was about finding the cheapest car in, like, Philadelphia. They ended up buying a Citation off a used car lot for about a 100 bucks. A few blocks off the lot, the thing threw a rod and the engine was destroyed.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Next generation Prius (2010). An improvement?
http://www.motorauthority.com/content/images/2/0/2010_toyota_prius_leak_001-1015.jpg
― Super Cub, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Looks as smug as the people who drive it.
― snoball, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
It looks like what Voltron's head would look like if all the little component vehicles of Voltron grouped to form a giant robot bird of prey.
― The Most Photographed Barn on the Internet (Pillbox), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
"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. The first-generation Subaru Forester was an ugly-ass small SUV. A very good car, but ugly.
Rover tried to sell cars in the US before the Sterling. They did not have much success.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
― 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.
― Brunswicki and Footescray (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― my inbox so hot (will), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"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.
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
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought the horribleness of the Prius was because of the need to make it super aerodymanic.
― brownie, Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't even imagine the cost for a new set of tires for half of these cars.
― brownie, Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
that Caprice is awesome
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― brownie, Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Just saw a tv commercial for this: the Kia "Soul"
http://www.cars-bikes.info/d/1747-2/kia-soul-001.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 7 December 2008 03:52 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 7 December 2008 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) that Kia looks like a prop from "Demolition Man"
― snoball, Sunday, 7 December 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
hyundai coupehttp://media.motortopia.com/files/7852/vehicle/46c091c4412af/Rollin_Medium.jpg
― Carol Vorderman's Bukkake Sudoku (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 8 December 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, the famed Amerikanische Wirtschaft and its ugly Automobile
I love each and every single one of those
― warmsherry, Monday, 8 December 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I see Saturn! The car! Everywhere we are!
http://www.auto123.com/ArtImages/93569/2009-Saturn-Vue-Hybrid-i008.jpg
― warmsherry, Monday, 8 December 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
HOLY SHIT, YOU GUYS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfguWbuzVmY
1957 AURORA
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 September 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
what in the hell...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 September 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 September 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link