The Ugly Car Thread!

[Steve M.]

I'd like to start a thread of ugly cars - cars so hideous-looking, it's hard to beleive any sane auto company would sell them! :lol:

First, a car from American Motors, which was a crazy company anyway - the Pacer! :D

http://www.streetdreams.com/install/amc/images/pacer1977a07.jpg

[Steve M.]

The Chevrolet Celebrity

http://www.nw-autopage.com/lg_pics/2120223.jpg

Despite its dumb name, this Chevy didn't exactly cut a debonair, glamourous figure with its stubby tail! :p

[Fleet]

The Chevrolet Celebrity
Despite its dumb name, this Chevy didn't exactly cut a debonair, glamourous figure with its stubby tail! :p
It was a preview of things to come. Today, everything has those awful stubby tails (even "Cadillacs").

[dawsongirl]

The Chevrolet Celebrity

http://www.nw-autopage.com/lg_pics/2120223.jpg

Despite its dumb name, this Chevy didn't exactly cut a debonair, glamourous figure with its stubby tail! :p

That's not so ugly.

What is ugly is that car Malloy drove during the last season of Adam-12; that yellow thing. I don't even know what it is, but damn, it's ugly!

[Hollow]

umm nvm i was gonna post sumthin but it was kind uv mean :wave:

[Brian]

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[Fleet]

What is ugly is that car Malloy drove during the last season of Adam-12; that yellow thing. I don't even know what it is, but damn, it's ugly!
I know what you're talking about. It was an AMC Matador. A '74-'75.

[Mijada]

I don't have a picture but the ugliest car I've ever seen in my life was this old Ford Pickup that my neighbor bought when I was little. This thing must have been about 20 years old and was covered with rust. My neighbor who was around 18 or 19 at the time wanted to make the car look better so he went out and bought some green and yellow latex paint. He painted the whole thing with one of those big wide paintbrushes that you would normally paint your house with. The bottom was green and the top and hubcaps were yellow. The finished product looked like a really scary John Deere tractor.

[Penny Lane]

The 91 Caprice. I thought it was so ugly! It reminded me of a boat or Noah's Ark. But it was an omen of things to come. The rounded design. Yuck! :rolleyes:

[Steve M.]

Here's a really ugly car. . . the second-generation (1980-85) Cadillac Seville :eek:

http://199.239.248.45/images/stk/1980/cd1980seville01.jpg

Check out that bustleback trunk! :o omg:

[dawsongirl]

I know what you're talking about. It was an AMC Matador. A '74-'75.

So that's what that is. OOGLAY! That mustang he drove first was much nicer.

[dawsongirl]

VW Thing. Defines "box on wheels."

[dawsongirl]

First, a car from American Motors



More!

Ah yes...the Matador. Ugly as...I don't even know!

[dawsongirl]

And a Gremlin. The movie version was cuter.

[Fleet]

Here's one...
My normal-looking '70 Cadillac Sedan de Ville on the street with a bunch of ugly (and boxy) SUV's:

[Courtnee]

Here's a really ugly car. . . the second-generation (1980-85) Cadillac Seville :eek:

http://199.239.248.45/images/stk/1980/cd1980seville01.jpg

Check out that bustleback trunk! :o omg:

It looks like a herse! :eek:

[Fleet]

Here's a really ugly car. . . the second-generation (1980-85) Cadillac Seville :eek:

Check out that bustleback trunk! :o omg:
I agree. I don't care for the "Euro" rear end at all.
The first generation ('76-'79) Sevilles were much better in every way; they were faster, too.
A '76 is pictured below.

[Pus$y Galore]

I'd like to start a thread of ugly cars - cars so hideous-looking, it's hard to beleive any sane auto company would sell them! :lol:

First, a car from American Motors, which was a crazy company anyway - the Pacer! :D

http://www.streetdreams.com/install/amc/images/pacer1977a07.jpg


Ah yes! I carpooled with a woman who drove one. It was driving to work in a fishbowl!! I was soooo embarrassed.

Also, one time when I had to go to a school dance in a '74 Javelin. The car design itself wasn't so bad, but the moron had painted it by hand with HOUSEPAINT!!! It's body was white, with red pin-striping and get this - red hubcaps! I thought I would die!

Anyway, I hate to admit it, but I liked the design of the Gremlin. Maybe it was the crush I had on the guy in my apt. building who owned one.....! ;)

[Pus$y Galore]

Here's one...
My normal-looking '70 Cadillac Sedan de Ville on the street with a bunch of ugly (and boxy) SUV's:



:lol: The Caddy looks like its taking up two spaces - even bigger than the SUVs!!! :lol:

[Mr. Stefani]

Here's one...
My normal-looking '70 Cadillac Sedan de Ville on the street with a bunch of ugly (and boxy) SUV's:


its 2005, your car is hardly the normal looking one of the bunch

[Stormtracker TF]

The 91 Caprice. I thought it was so ugly! It reminded me of a boat or Noah's Ark. But it was an omen of things to come. The rounded design. Yuck! :rolleyes:
LOL HOLY CRAP. I swear that's the cemetary a few blocks down the street from me. What's that called...Woodmere Cemetary or something? And the guy who owns that car lives somewhere really close to my neighborhood.

Did you just find that on the internet or something? Because I walk by that place every other day.

[Zebra 3]

...a car from American Motors, which was a crazy company anyway - the Pacer! :D

http://www.streetdreams.com/install/amc/images/pacer1977a07.jpg

[dawsongirl]

More cars that are ugly. A Chevy Vega/Monza/whatever...A Plymouth Valiant (my mom's nomination)...Ford Taurus (BARF)...A Buick Riviera.

[Fleet]

its 2005, your car is hardly the normal looking one of the bunch
Well, unfortunately, you may be right. Many people today think modern blob, egg-shaped cars or the boxy SUV's look normal; I never will.

[Fleet]

:lol: The Caddy looks like its taking up two spaces - even bigger than the SUVs!!! :lol:
:lol:

That Caddy is big (129.5" wheelbase, 225" overall length- 18.75 feet).

[Pus$y Galore]

:lol:

That Caddy is big (129.5" wheelbase, 225" overall length- 18.75 feet).


Reminds me of one my husband bought as a winter car (his other was a Vette). He only paid $1000 for it (in 1998, the car was an 86) and it was pretty beat up. Someone even broke out the opera window in it trying to break in. He just put the old cardboard and duct tape treatment on it. It ran well and I've never been in a car where the seats were more comfortable, but boy did it look BIG and BAD!! We named it the "UncleBuckMobile". He was finally rear-ended and because of the damage to the bumper, they wrote the whole car off (because of it's low value)!! He got $1000 back from insurance for it so basically got to drive it for 3 years for just the maintenance costs!
Don't knock it! You can't beat those good old cars! I hate most of the silly looking "boxy, bugs" they're putting out now.

[Penny Lane]

LOL HOLY CRAP. I swear that's the cemetary a few blocks down the street from me. What's that called...Woodmere Cemetary or something? And the guy who owns that car lives somewhere really close to my neighborhood.

Did you just find that on the internet or something? Because I walk by that place every other day.


Wow! You're kidding! What a coincidence! It could be. I found the photo on Google. That's all I can tell ya! But I see that you are from Detroit so the pic could have been taken there. :)

[*MIBabe03*]

I'm sorry but the Honda Element is freaking ugly!

[D-Dey]

The 91 Caprice. I thought it was so ugly! It reminded me of a boat or Noah's Ark. But it was an omen of things to come. The rounded design. Yuck! :rolleyes:


Oh, that's NOTHING!! The ugliest car being built right now is the Hyundai Sonata!

http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com/media/roadtests/comparison/2004/04.family.sedan/hyundai.sonata/03.hyundai.sonata.f34.500.jpg

Even the 1996-1999 Ford Taurus isn't as hideous as that bug-faced P.O.S.!

[Pus$y Galore]

I'm sorry but the Honda Element is freaking ugly!


Holy Crap - is it EVER oogly!!! Looks like a shoebox on wheels!!!

That's like the Toyota Echo - my friend bought one in yellow and all we could do was ask how many clowns could she actually fit into the thing.

[Mr. Stefani]

Oh, that's NOTHING!! The ugliest car being built right now is the Hyundai Sonata!

http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com/media/roadtests/comparison/2004/04.family.sedan/hyundai.sonata/03.hyundai.sonata.f34.500.jpg

Even the 1996-1999 Ford Taurus isn't as hideous as that bug-faced P.O.S.!

thats the model before it was redesigned. the new one is nice, it was modeled after the jag s-type.

[dawsongirl]

I'm sorry but the Honda Element is freaking ugly!

Indeed. Very ugly.

[dawsongirl]

Oh, that's NOTHING!! The ugliest car being built right now is the Hyundai Sonata!

http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com/media/roadtests/comparison/2004/04.family.sedan/hyundai.sonata/03.hyundai.sonata.f34.500.jpg

Even the 1996-1999 Ford Taurus isn't as hideous as that bug-faced P.O.S.!

Oh no...the Taurus is MUCH uglier. A total WTF moment there.

[dawsongirl]

Scion...making ugly cars hidious.

[dawsongirl]

Here's the Toyota Echo...and it is ooglay.

[*MIBabe03*]

Scion...making ugly cars hidious.

http://www.autointell-news.com/News-2003/August-2003/August-2003-2/Scion-Xb-2004-side-110.jpg

That was the other one I was thinking about! I couldn't remember who made them though. What's the deal with these car companies making cars that look like a box on wheels?

[dawsongirl]

That was the other one I was thinking about! I couldn't remember who made them though. What's the deal with these car companies making cars that look like a box on wheels?

I know! It'd be cheaper to put wheels on an actual box.

[dawsongirl]

My dad loves these. I think they look like insect aliens. I'll never understand the appeal. 1963/64 Jag.

[dawsongirl]

Apparently they thought if it had the word "vette" in it, it would be hot.

The Chevy Chevette...or Shove it as it was also known.

[dawsongirl]

I'm sorry but the Honda Element is freaking ugly!

LOL...I just typed 'ugly car' into google and one of those came up! :lol:

[*MIBabe03*]

LOL...I just typed 'ugly car' into google and one of those came up! :lol:

LMAO! Okay is my car ugly? It's a 97 Honda Civic Hatchback. My car is Silver.

[dawsongirl]

LMAO! Okay is my car ugly? It's a 97 Honda Civic Hatchback. My car is Silver.

IMO, I'm not wild about hatchbacks, but that's not ugly.

[TJL]

Apparently they thought if it had the word "vette" in it, it would be hot.

The Chevy Chevette...or Shove it as it was also known.

The Chevette was an ugly little car, but we had one for years; it was one of many handmedown cars in my family that my brother and I eventually ended up driving, and that car was indestructible. We literally drove that car into the ground, and it was still running until the day we finally junked it.

[Pus$y Galore]

Here's the Toyota Echo...and it is ooglay.


Isn't that the dumbest lookin' thing you've ever seen? And that one's a little better in the gold - in that bright saffron it does look like it should be in the center ring at the circus <cue circus music>

I wouldn't be caught dead in - I'd rather walk thanks!! (Like that Javelin I suffered in - I laid down on the backseat so no one could see me)!

[Pus$y Galore]

I know! It'd be cheaper to put wheels on an actual box.


I dunno....maybe not!!! :eek:

[Pus$y Galore]

My dad loves these. I think they look like insect aliens. I'll never understand the appeal. 1963/64 Jag.



OMG!!!!! Only one of my all time favorite cars!!! I LOVED THIS CAR!!!!

My older brother had a model of one he built. I remember he painted it "Candyapple Red" (that kind of metalflake red). It just mesermized me - and I was only about 7 or 8 yrs old at the time!!

:drool:

[Pus$y Galore]

LOL...I just typed 'ugly car' into google and one of those came up! :lol:

:rofl:


And as for the Chevette - my brother owned one.....also had a Valient too!

[dawsongirl]

Isn't that the dumbest lookin' thing you've ever seen? And that one's a little better in the gold - in that bright saffron it does look like it should be in the center ring at the circus <cue circus music>

I wouldn't be caught dead in - I'd rather walk thanks!! (Like that Javelin I suffered in - I laid down on the backseat so no one could see me)!

:lol: The front looks like...I don't know. Like it's got a disease or something. Plus they must go 0-60 in like, 2 minutes or something. :lol:

[dawsongirl]

OMG!!!!! Only one of my all time favorite cars!!! I LOVED THIS CAR!!!!

My older brother had a model of one he built. I remember he painted it "Candyapple Red" (that kind of metalflake red). It just mesermized me - and I was only about 7 or 8 yrs old at the time!!

:drool:

My dad had 2 at one point. Kicks himself to this day for getting rid of them. But at the time, my mom was pregnant with me and couldn't even get behind the wheel of it. So it's all my fault. :lol:

I just don't like that HUUUUGE front end. Looks like you could camp on it!

[Pus$y Galore]

:lol: The front looks like...I don't know. Like it's got a disease or something. Plus they must go 0-60 in like, 2 minutes or something. :lol:


The back end is even worse!! And as my husband calls them "shopping cart wheels" they're so small! It a joke! I expect Fred Flinstone's feet to be seen under it! :lol:

[Pus$y Galore]

My dad had 2 at one point. Kicks himself to this day for getting rid of them. But at the time, my mom was pregnant with me and couldn't even get behind the wheel of it. So it's all my fault. :lol:

I just don't like that HUUUUGE front end. Looks like you could camp on it!

Oh I don't blame him - do you know what one of those is worth now in good condition? That's my dream car - even over a Vette. That long front end was considered soooooo cool back then! It was all engine too! What were they 10 or 12 cylinders?

My husband has a Vette, but we just had to put it up on blocks because of where we're living now. That's when he had to get the Uncle Buckmobile for winter driving, and now the Aurora. I hated that Vette actually. Do you know how tough it is to get into one in a miniskirt and 4 inch heels? They have a 4" rim on the side of them that you have to step over and they're so low to begin with, that let's just say, it doesn't leave much to the imagination - like a Sharon Stone scene!! And you feel every bump and stone on the road!

Yeah - see - you kids kill all the fun!! And you say parents do! ha! ;) :lol:

[Steve M.]

The Chevette was an ugly little car, but we had one for years; it was one of many handmedown cars in my family that my brother and I eventually ended up driving, and that car was indestructible. We literally drove that car into the ground, and it was still running until the day we finally junked it.

I think it was named the Chevette for CHEVrolet and ETTE< meaning "small and cute." :lol: Anyway, those little buggers were tough cars - I saw one in a parking lot recently - and I think they were based on the German Opel Kadett. (Vauxhall in Britain had a similar car, also called the Chevette.)

[Pus$y Galore]

I think it was named the Chevette for CHEVrolet and ETTE< meaning "small and cute." :lol: Anyway, those little buggers were tough cars - I saw one in a parking lot recently - and I think they were based on the German Opel Kadett. (Vauxhall in Britain had a similar car, also called the Chevette.)


They sure were! My brother paid $500 for his (not sure how old it was when he got it), but it ran for another 5 - 6 years before he had to junk it.

I didn't think they looked all that bad for a small car at the time really.

[D-Dey]

thats the model before it was redesigned. the new one is nice, it was modeled after the jag s-type.


Are you referring to some 2006 or early 2007 model I haven't seen yet? Because the 2005 looks the same as this one.


:confused: