What is the ugliest automobile produced in the past 20 years?

[Little Texan]

I saw one of these this evening on my way home from town, which gave me the idea for this thread! This is the ugliest car on the road, IMO! What was GM thinking when they green lighted the design for this SUV (which stands for Some Ugly Vehicle in this case!)?

http://www.edmunds.com/media/reviews/top10/05.trucks.worst.residual.value/05.pontiac.aztek.500.jpg

Pontiac Asstek

[redblkwht]

Its either that or that bondo
looking suv honda that has some paint on it too..
the element i think?

creativity went to the shitter with some automakers. lol

[redblkwht]

Tex, i call that the lunchbox, the idiot across the street has
a blue one, yuk. (your pic);)

[BrownSound1]

Those cars are awful looking...kind of like a modern day Pacer or some shit.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Anything by Scion.

[FORD]

The new supposedly "retro" Toyota Land Cruiser really is kinda ugly.......

http://carsmedia.ign.com/cars/image/article/721/721170/07_fj_cruiser11_1153958699.jpg


I don't think it looks a thing like the old school version....

http://www.bentleypublishers.com/images//features/toyota.land.cruiser.fj40.1978.small.jpg

[fryingdutchman]

The fucking Honda Element.

Goddamn toaster on wheels....

http://www.hondasuv.com/images/element/cotm/jan04/cotm_jan04_element_jon.jpg

[Mt. Krakalak]

The PT Loser is the fugliest.

http://www.calgaryscience.ca/courses/summercamps/projects/TecX%20July%2024/Lego%20Dudes/images/pt%20cruiser.jpg

[Jimmy Jingles]

Honda Shitsight -


http://www.automedia.com/NewCarBuyersGuide/photos/2005/Honda/Insight/Hatchback/2005_Honda_Insight_ext_1.jpg

[knuckleboner]

i was gonna say the aztek. no question.

but honorable mention to the toyota prius...
http://www.toyota.com/images/vehicles/2007/prius/gallery/exterior/photo_1.jpg

[SparkieD]

Originally posted by fryingdutchman
The fucking Honda Element.

Goddamn toaster on wheels....

http://www.hondasuv.com/images/element/cotm/jan04/cotm_jan04_element_jon.jpg


My sister drives one. I never know what to call it when I mention it, so I always call it her toaster. Ugly as hell, but I think the Scion thingy has it beat:p

[CROWBAR]

Without a doubt, the Chrysler 300. It's like it was in an auto crusher and the damn thing stopped about three quarters of the way down! Like it has half windows. Ugly mofo! Now I see copycats being made due to this trend. My local cops even have a couple of those bastards. Maybe they're not 300's, but something similar. Hate 'em.

and I second Scions. Rolling lunchboxes.

[redblkwht]

Originally posted by fryingdutchman
The fucking Honda Element.

Goddamn toaster on wheels....

http://www.hondasuv.com/images/element/cotm/jan04/cotm_jan04_element_jon.jpg
give me a pic of the 1st year
out with the bondo look its even worse..lol

[Ally_Kat]

Honda just needs to quit with this box car thing

http://news.windingroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/honda-concepts-152.jpg

[Little Texan]

Give me a pencil and a piece of paper and I could've come up with that design in five seconds! I think I came up with that particular design, myself, when I was in Kindergarten! What is up with car designers these days?

[Little Texan]

Speaking of bad auto designing, Chevy seems to have lost the plot on their trucks the last few years! I thought the last trucks were ugly, but these new ones they just come out with are even uglier!

[Viking]

The Element looks like something that would have been mass-produced in Soviet-era Russia. It has got to be the most utilitarian, gloomy-looking piece of machinery ever devised. I'd expect one to pull up to my door, and a couple of fur hat-wearing Commie apparatchiks to come knocking with 'papers' in their hand.....:D

[twonabomber]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
Honda just needs to quit with this box car thing

http://news.windingroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/honda-concepts-152.jpg

slanteyes love those boxy cars. just ask Cato.

[Coyote]

Most of the "retro" designs look horrid. The Camaro, for example, looks like it's grinning while having a cactus shoved up it tailpipe.

Sportier cars look like streamline dildos, trucks etc. look like lunchboxes... WTF?

Ain't no curves in cars anymore... :(

I'd rather have a, say, THIS http://www.damox.com/cars/thumbs/Pontiac/1969_Pontiac_GTO.jpg than ANY of these "bold, new" designs.

[Diamondjimi]

Ugly as fuck. It's like riding in a fish bowl. I've seen one of these chopped and slammed . I could'nt believe it was a fuckin Pacer.

http://images.forbes.com/images/2002/10/18/pacer.jpg

[CROWBAR]

The problem with cars today is that there's no longer any originality. Back in the day, you could always tell a Chevy from a Ford from a Dodge for example. Now, you have to pull up alongside and read the logo on a car to tell what it is. Sad really. Your car looks like everybody else's, except the paint job. And Honda didn't start that boxcar look, FORD did back in the early 80's. No shit either.

Gimme an old muscle car anyday over what they make now!

[SparkieD]

Originally posted by CROWBAR

Gimme an old muscle car anyday over what they make now!

My parents made me in the ultimate..a '67 Camaro SS metallic blue w/white racing stripes. Fuckin' car (no pun intended) is my dream ride!

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Originally posted by SparkieD
My parents made me in the ultimate..a '67 Camaro SS metallic blue w/white racing stripes. Fuckin' car (no pun intended) is my dream ride!

my folks were in a blue 68, but no stripes. pops had to sell it to pay my hospital bill. poor bastard. the new mustangs aren't bad lookin'. i pulled up next to a new shelby model, pretty bitchin'

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Was watching some old Top Gears over the weekend. Clarkson revealed what he believed to be the world's ugliest car. He was right.

Just can't remember what it was.

[Viking]

Originally posted by Crowbar:

Gimme an old muscle car anyday over what they make now!
This one is similar to the cage I had back in the mid-late 80's (not an SS, tho): '71 Chevelle. Blue w/black hardtop. Stock 327 w/a 750 cfm Rochester Q-jet. Hooker headers, Thrush pipes, & custom exhaust; Gabriel Hijacker air shocks. Chrome slots w/Kelly-Springfield G60-15's on the back. It sounded like God coming home for dinner early, and could lay a pretty impressive holeshot for a warmed-over mouse motor. I drove it until it fell through itself. :drive: :killer: :drive: :killer: :drive:
http://www.collectorcarmuseum.com/inventory/images/350056_1.jpg

[VanHalener]

Originally posted by FORD
The new supposedly "retro" Toyota Land Cruiser really is kinda ugly.......

http://carsmedia.ign.com/cars/image/article/721/721170/07_fj_cruiser11_1153958699.jpg


I don't think it looks a thing like the old school version....

http://www.bentleypublishers.com/images//features/toyota.land.cruiser.fj40.1978.small.jpg

I like the FJ Cruiser, but if I picked one up it would go straight to the paint shop. What were they thinking?

[CROWBAR]

Originally posted by Viking
Originally posted by Crowbar:

This one is similar to the cage I had back in the mid-late 80's (not an SS, tho): '71 Chevelle. Blue w/black hardtop. Stock 327 w/a 750 cfm Rochester Q-jet. Hooker headers, Thrush pipes, & custom exhaust; Gabriel Hijacker air shocks. Chrome slots w/Kelly-Springfield G60-15's on the back. It sounded like God coming home for dinner early, and could lay a pretty impressive holeshot for a warmed-over mouse motor. I drove it until it fell through itself. :drive: :killer: :drive: :killer: :drive:
http://www.collectorcarmuseum.com/inventory/images/350056_1.jpg

Sweet man! I had a '71 Bu too. No kidding. I called it my Malibrew from all the road sodas consumed back then. It was copper colored with a white vinyl top. Had a 350 with a few goodies under the hood. I do miss that car.

Cars of today don't really do anything for me.

[CROWBAR]

Originally posted by SparkieD
My parents made me in the ultimate..a '67 Camaro SS metallic blue w/white racing stripes. Fuckin' car (no pun intended) is my dream ride!

I give your parents a A for effort, as that must have been a bitch in that little back seat of a 67!!

[SparkieD]

Originally posted by CROWBAR
I give your parents a A for effort, as that must have been a bitch in that little back seat of a 67!!

Hell, they might've made me on the hood. I just know that car was part of the equation.

Those back seats didn't change much. Tiki drove an '84 model when he and I started dating. It was more comfy in the damned driver's seat. I went home with a steering wheel print on my ass on more than occasion:D

[VanHalener]

Originally posted by SparkieD
Hell, they might've made me on the hood. I just know that car was part of the equation.

Those back seats didn't change much. Tiki drove an '84 model when he and I started dating. It was more comfy in the damned driver's seat. I went home with a steering wheel print on my ass on more than occasion:D :lol:

http://www.spa-uk.co.uk/design/steeringquickrelease.asp

The involuted spline design of the SPA steering wheel quick release mechanism incorporates a master spline that allows both perfect orientation and alignment. The steering wheel boss is manufactured from aircraft specification material and the inner splinned hub is then hard anodised for both strength and durability.

In addition to the standard 20mm and 23mm internal diameter splinned mechanisms we have now introduced a range of Electric quick release that incorporate Lemo 8 pin connectors in both the hub and shaft, these mechanisms are available in 20mm diameter spline format. The electric quick release comes pre-wired with 1 metre on the shaft and 1/2 metre on the hub enabling the customer to mount all the necessary controls and switches on the steering wheel without the usual unsightly wiring wrapped around the steering column.

SPA Design steering wheel quick release mechanism conforms to the latest FIA technical specification as defined in Appendix J Article 255 dated 01-01-03 5.7 3.7 Steering Wheel.

The quick release mechanism must consist of a flange concentric to the steering wheel axis coloured YELLOW through anodisation or any other durable yellow coating and installed on the steering column behind the steering wheel.

The release must be operated by pulling the flange along the steering wheel axis.

[Viking]

Anybody remember the Pontiac Ventura? It was an early-to-mid 70's Chevy Nova clone. My parents rented one from Rent-A-Wreck for a few weeks back in '80, when our car was in the shop. That fucker had a 350 with four-bolt mains and a posi rear. Two-speed Powerglide tranny. Not a damned thing done to it - completely stock. But that fucker would torque sideways from a dead stop, it smoked the tread so well. Best piece of shit I ever drove. :D I'd give my left nut for it nowadays.

http://www.pontiacventura.com/ventura_images/1972ventura_pics/72vCAtemecula-dfm.jpg

[Mt. Krakalak]

Not within the last two decades, but this one's so ugly it's CUTE!
The VW Thing. Boxy before boxy was in!

http://www.tyborg.com/element/squares/squares-Images/11.jpg