It doesn’t have to be a real production car, it can also be a concept.
For me, it has to be the 1997 Dodge Copperhead. This ugly chungus just speaks to me and I don’t know why. It is hideous, Pontiac Aztek levels of ugly, but I kinda wish Dodge actually sold it. It wasn’t going to be gutless, sharing much with the Viper, but it also wasn’t going to have the same price of the Viper (Viper at the time was ~$75k, this baby would have been ~$30k). For the price, a little ugly isn’t that big of a deal for a similar powertrain. Surely a facelift kit could help it out some.
Just thought a discussion like this could be fun. What cars are the same for you?
BMW Isetta, the car that saved BMW. It is a weird little car with only one door that opens to the front. As I child, I actually had the great fortune of sitting in one of those for a few minutes. I think the design is from Italy and BMW licensed it to quickly be able to produce a cheap car after WW2.
Italian engineers figured out how to make cheap transportation from old war airplane parts. That’s how the Vespa and Lambretta scooters were born.
I’ve never even heard of the Dodge Copperhead, but I’m with you.
It is hideous, Pontiac Aztek levels of ugly
It’s definitely something of a “butter face” for sure
Much better 😆
I dunno, I still don’t like that “dimple” behind the front wheels.
I drove a rented Aztek on vacation once, and it was just fine. Rear visibility sucked, but it was a perfectly cromulent vehicle.
Yeah, that back looks much closer to the Pontiac Solstice, which I always thought was a good looking car. I knew a retired guy with one who’d lied about his age during WWII and wound up ferrying aircraft. He was a firecracker when you’d get to talking with him and it seemed like a fun car.
Back when they were new, I saw a GXP at a dealership tried to get in and managed to shut the door but the steering wheel was wedged between my knees. As I was crawling out, a salesman asked if I’d like a test drive. Uhhh that wouldn’t be safe for either of us lol. But I fit in my MX-5 just fine!
never bought one but I always liked the Plymouth pt cruiser’s look.
also Chevy HHR got a lot of hate but I thought it was neato.
I was tempted to get an HHR back in the day, but they didn’t offer manual transmission.
Ended up getting a similarly divisive Subaru Baja.
For a while (and still now tbh) I wanted the SS model of the HHR. Thought it would be cool to do it black on black and call it the hearse.
My niece had to drive a Homo Hot Rod for a long time. They were the unneeded answer from Chevy to Chrysler’s PT Cruiser.
I didn’t know the pt cruiser was a question that needed an answer… Chevy did their … ohh
HHR.damn my initial comment I was thinking SSR and cross wired with they wayyy less good HHR. my bad I hadn’t thought of any of these in like 15-20 yrs.
Everyone just got whiplash from your change in style from the 2 different vehicles. Was a fun ride you took us on with. Are you even allowed to say that abbreviation of HHR though, by your peer group?
Looks like a car out of a bugs bunny cartoon.
Dodge CaliberThe looks aren’t as bad as the fact that it’s a dodge.
Isuzu vehicross. It’s got stretched proportions in all the wrong places, and yet, I dig the weirdness.
.jpg?t=171362591895)
Looks like an inflatable!
Right? It looks like when you make a custom RPG character and just min max all the facial feature sliders for funny effect.
The Snoot Droops
It looks so bouncy lol, I love it.
i absolutely LOVE these.
I remember when these things came out! Man, that was a weird moment… The hilarious part is that it’s literally just a Rodeo under the skin; the mechanicals are identical.
Looks like it’d be right at home home in Rocket League!
You know, I kinda like it too.
The Kalashnikov CV-1. I would have bought one of those in a heartbeat if it hadn’t been a concept car.
They were just playing with Moskvich Kombi design, and wow those rims are ugly
I learned to drive on that fucker
Knowing Russian car quality this thing would’ve probably developed rust holes on the way from the factory to the dealership.
Kinda reminds me of the cars from that 90s Romeo and Juliet movie:
what the fuck
Like GTA IRL
I mean, I won’t lie, Nemo’s car from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has potential:
That’s not objectively ugly at all, it’s very nice.
i actually really like the look of the original ford ka with the plasnic bumpers. especially the cabriolet version:
the fiat multipla is of course the classic contender:
and then there’s the REVAi, better known as the G-Wiz:
it looks like a real-life choro-Q car!
and a personal favourite, which i don’t think is even a bit ugly, it’s just a marvel of design: the europe-only version of the 2006 honda civic.
literally no bad angles.
The Multipla was the most practical vehicle ever made. Two rows of three. Huge inside, yet easy on gas and easy to drive and park.
yeah that’s my takeaway as well. function over form.
Ok, now I have to know your dream girls (or guys).
wait hang on what
To see if your specific tastes transfers over to humans.
i do like when the top comes off…
The Multipla justifiably gets a lot of hate, but it had great visibility, and seats six (three front seats rather than two).
It really is fugly though.
The Multipla is the one I immediately pictured but I did not know the name
Look, fuck Nazis and Elon but I repeat myself. And there is a lot wrong with the vehicle overall. But I really don’t hate the cybertruck’s aesthetic.
It’s ok to be wrong sometimes
It definitely is… Unique… I can give it that. Personally I prefer my unpainted stainless vehicles to look a little more DMC than Tesla, but I cannot deny it has a brutalist-esque aesthetic that catches the eye.
Have you ever seen one in person? It’s like it was put together by a three year old.
I laugh every time I see one. There were a lot around here and I see far, far less now than I did even 6 months ago
I have to work very hard not to screw up my face when the customer comes to pick up things with one and ask, “are you sure it can handle all that?”
I always liked the AMC Gremlin, my friend had one in high school and it was fun-ugly.
Sincerely wishing the AMC badge would make a comeback. Bring back the Levi’s edition Gremlin!
Love those little guys. Also love that it was called a gremlin. I want a motorcycle called a goblin now and an SUV called a troll.
Subaru XT (Alcyone or Vortex in some markets).
I owned one of these. The aerodynamics were great for a 1980s car. It even had purely mechanical flush door handles, which modern car designers could learn from.
I love that one, that’s so cool! Man I’d love to get one of those.
Citroen SM
I’ve heard people call the Farrari F50 ugly but it’s my favourite car from Need for Speed 2 and I’ve always liked the looks of it
I mean, compared to the F40 its not really a fair competition, I can see where people are coming from calling it ugly, but I think its still a good looking car. I prefer other Ferarris, but its not the ugliest one. I think its at least above average, even among the Ferarri catalog.
Objectively ugly is almost an oxymoron, but, the multipla comes as close as it gets by violating damn near every design principle I ever learned lol.
And I like it because it defies conventional design paradigms in favor of practicality and ended up being iconic in its own way. If they were to be available here in the states, as a hybrid or electric, and didn’t engage in the fuckery with transmitting everything you do, I’d actually prefer one over many prettier options.
I always liked the first gen Nissan Juke. The styling was the right kind of odd for me, and I thought it was kinda cool that you could get it with a maunal on the front wheel drive models. They did the split headlight thing better than the Pontiac Aztek imo. (tho that car did have a minifridge in it, which the Juke did not lmao). Idk if they were any good to own long term tho. Apparently there are 3 Juke-R’s out there in the wild somewhere, where Nissan crammed the GT-R engine into it lmao
Jukes are in general absolute dogshit in terms of reliability, one of the worst cars in the last 20 years IMO.
