The Ugliest Cars

[FarmerPug]

ive got two books here for the additional cars by top gear; crap cars, and midlife crisis cars

[rwb]

BMW 5 series. OK, not the ugliest, but BMW really ought to have done better.

I always thought Mercs were fairly ugly, but I like the new E-class (from the outside).

I kind of agree with: "every Peugeot since the 406". They've all been fairly anonymous.

[FarmerPug]

Merc had a period of crap cars, from the a class unitl the new cls but the 80s stuff was great looking the 190e w123, and w124 were very well proportioned designs

[TooT]

BMW X3
BMW X6
Toyota Yaris MK1
Vauxhall VX220
Renault Koleos

A few off the top of me head

[NollingtonHards]

This is more the cars i hate than are ugly ha
Porsche (4X4 Off-road one cant remember the name)
Nissan Micra ( The old boxy one looks brilliant though)
Vauxhall Corsa (new and old models)
Toyota Previa
BMW X5 & X6 (Vile cars)
Fiat 500
Nissan Quashqai & Juke
and the Rover 400i

[mjb]

here's an impressive late entry (although it's immediately disqualified for being a concept and not 'on the roads')... The Kia POP:

http://www.reghardware.com/2010/09/30/kia_pop/

[steve_earwig]

The Kia PLOP:

Fixerated

Is it one of them cyclone jobbies or does it need a bag? Where does the hose fit?

[plod]

Guy I know has one of these



To give him his dues, he only bought it to take the 3.3l engine out of it and fit into a imprezza and turbo charge it
....and he'll do it, as some of his recent work includes fitting the imprezza engine in a beetle, a nissan zx engine into a imprezza to turn it into a drifter, and converting an imprezza to 2wd

[FarmerPug]

a few more entries by nissan now that i think of it
the murano
the sunny
tida
pixo
and the nissan 300zx which the thing above could be, i have a good bit out of a top gear article on it:
long gone are the days of hand built, low volume masterpieces , this is a mass production item, unceremoniously spat off a sterile production line somewhere very foreign and served up to you with the care and emotion of a dominos pizza. Its the TV dinner of the sports car world: cheap, unlovable, unimaginative, vacuum-packed.
I think thats quite a true review of most japanese cars of the 80s.
And i dont have something against nissan i think the pathfinder, patrol, x trail and old primera are all good

[teamster1975]

Daihatsu Move. Sh1t house.

[steve_earwig]

There's a couple of those around here, they usually drive ridiculously slowly and I often wonder how much damage it'd do to my Pug if I just rammed them out of the way...

Love to know how a Beetle goes with an Imprezza lump in it

[plod]

and the nissan 300zx which the thing above could be,

Tis a Subaru svx
Apparently only 35 in the uk

[FarmerPug]

its a rare car then, sometimes rare cars can be rare because of their ugliness like the lexus ls400
is the citroen xm ugly?

[steve_earwig]

Not compared to the tiny joke car above but each to his own I guess.


Hmm...

[Welly]

Re: Jap cars, I've had 3 Jap cars; a Honda, a Mazda and a Mitsu-be-sh*t and I can say that all three were completely soulless but you can't really put your finger on the reason.

The interiors are wierd, having buttons with things like 'Power Window' written on them is tacky, in fact every button kinda tells you what is is rather than having a symbol - like the Japs treated the thing as an appliance or tool.

All three cars were unexpectedly expensive to keep too

No-one's offered up this beaut yet (which I strangely kinda liked when it came out).......