Ugly Car Thread

[Mike Simpson]

AMC had the market cornered on ugly cars, every AMC…

 

[stephent2]

The 1967 Mohs Ostentatienne Opera Sedan

You’re going to have to trust me on this one, Decorum prevents me from including a photo

Do the search

But you have been warned

In for the win,... Lordy.

Mr. Mohs and his amazing motor cars - Hagerty Media

Bruce Mohs was a businessman with a wild engineering imagination, as the wacky Ostentatienne Opera Sedan and Safaricar demonstrate in spades.

www.hagerty.com

 

[Dennyf]

Post up your ugliest car suggestions. I'll start with two --

The 1957-1960 Edsel is rightly ridiculed, but the same people who brought us the Edsel had some even uglier designs up their sleeves, such as this 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser:

We are kindred souls. I too, for many years, have considered this the zenith of US automotive ugliness. Surely there must be a variant with a Continental Kit.

 

[bumnote]

AMC had the market cornered on ugly cars, every AMC…

One exception....one.
The Wagoneer.

My best friend in high school had one exactly like this. It was a nice SUV. We took that thing all over East Texas...and I remember some of it.

Then his dad borrowed it, seized the engine up and refused to help with the repair costs. If anyone wants to guess want his father did for a living, I bet this hint will narrow it down immediately....trained white collar professional.

 

[NWinther]

Poor '70s fat chicks get no love...

Well it is a horror car, my uncle had several VW's back then....all of the terrible to look at and just as horrible in driving mode(when they worked)
They always broke down, had some issues all the time....
I have no nostalgic feelings towards them...and the origins of that "car" are defently not a good one

 

[Engine Swap]

What on earth were Chevy's "style" boffins thinking when they dreamed up the early 1990s Caprice?

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Love me some “bubble”

 

[Dave_11]

I always thought the late 90s Taurus was an exceptionally ugly car, from both the front and the back. The front end looks like a catfish to me...

 

[Knows3Chords]

The Ford Tempo.

 

[ClashCityTele]

The Rat Taxi.
This belongs to a local guy. I often see him driving around.

Took him 4 1/2 years to build/wreck!

 

[clydethecat]

We are kindred souls. I too, for many years, have considered this the zenith of US automotive ugliness. Surely there must be a variant with a Continental Kit.

And Ford didn't have a monopoly on ugly in the late '50s to early '60s. Chrysler's Virgil Exner contributed mightily to the art of ugly as well:

 

[AAT65]

FIAT Multipla.
What do I win?

Yup, in our family that was always just referred to as “the ugly car”. My mum said she wanted to buy one because she felt sorry for it…

 

[Maguchi]

Pontiac Aztec

 

[edvard]

I always thought the late 90s Taurus was an exceptionally ugly car, from both the front and the back. The front end looks like a catfish to me...
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There were a lot of cars in the mid-late 90s that looked like flatted bubbles squeezed out of a tube at the factory, I think trying to be "aerodynamic" or some such balderdash. They all ended up looking like shiny bright-colored bowel movements with lights and tires to me...

 

[Mike Simpson]

One exception....one.
The Wagoneer.
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My best friend in high school had one exactly like this. It was a nice SUV. We took that thing all over East Texas...and I remember some of it.

Then his dad borrowed it, seized the engine up and refused to help with the repair costs. If anyone wants to guess want his father did for a living, I bet this hint will narrow it down immediately....trained white collar professional.

You are correct, to me AMC did not design that, this body style was during the Kaiser Jeep era and AMC bought the company. AMC was good and bad for Jeep but since 2014 they are owned by Fiat… love Jeeps, my first car was a 62 Utility Wagon and also had a 49 Willy’s truck.

 

[fishermike]

I remember there was somebody in my neighborhood that had a mint green '70s Ford Fairmont with one of those DIY pop-up tinted glass sunroofs. One of the ugliest cars I've ever seen to this day.

 

[srvy]

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yep

 

[hawk620]

My folks had a ‘62 “stewed tater” Lark, first car I drove. I’d wash it just so I could drive it to the spigot. Also a ‘60 or so red truck. Someone left the window open and a cat climbed inside and shat in it. It stunk even after we cleaned it up, so we sprayed some Avon rose scented air freshener in it. Smelled like rose scented cat ****e then. Those last studebakers were horribly ugly I thought. Kinda like Mercedes. Early ‘60s Mopars similar I thought back then, but one with a screaming hemi and sleepily hotrodded would be downright classy now I think.
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Early ‘60s were a bit style challenged, me thinks.

In my teens year we lived on a resort lake in Wisconsin. My best friends mom had a red Lark we used to ride around in. Three on the tree and severely under powered but it did get us to some dance halls where the girls were.

 

[Preacher]

I present the Dodge Omni

And for good measure

The Hyundai Excel - one of the junkiest cars I ever encountered.

 

[stephent2]

Those 50's and 60's American car styles are fantastic. Gaudy land yachts dripping with/ chrome, love 'em. Sure speaks to how we wanted to view ours back then. The 70's and 80's were pretty misguided in automotive design, producing boring POS generally. Wonder what that says,..

American cars never did it for me, love the looks of vintage iron but they don't take the corners well. I don't think anyone's mentioned SAABs, we had a bunch. There were some strange color combos that could only be called ugly. I had one of these for awhile, in real life it's a color you could only call Baby S**t Brown.

 

[brookdalebill]

I present the Dodge Omni
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And for good measure

The Hyundai Excel - one of the junkiest cars I ever encountered.

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My Dad gifted me with a second hand white Dodge Omni, circa 1995.
I drove it from Austin to Prince George, BC.
It was great!
Alas, I cannot recall it’s fate.