Go ahead, list them. Lets stick with fairly well known cars rather than obscure or rare cars . . .

IMO, MOST cars are ugly in varying degrees, some more so than others.

I'll start with mrs m's AMC Pacer which is actually lower on the Ugly Scale than a number of others.

Recent examples of pure uglyness was the early 90's Chevrolet Impalas -- remember them?? Usually found as cop cars or taxis. GM later followed up with the Pontiac Aztek -- ugh! Not even clowns wanted that thing!

Whats yours?

Mid 70's AMC Gremlin....

The Volkswagon "THING"...

Any Mustang 1974 thru 1993...Waste of Iron and Butt ugly POS...

agree with the mustangs, the gremlin and thing were sort of cutish.

ugliest car I ever owned was a 63 chrysler Newport -- hand me down from parents -- floor the accelerator just once and you'll actually see the gas gauge move toward "E".

I always thought Corvairs were pretty weird, I couldn't tell if they were going forwards or backwards...now they're classicly cool!

Ugly:

PT Cruiser
Generic US 4 door sedans: Granada, Corsica, etc.,
Pinto
(Agree on the Aztek, yick!)

Another vote for the Aztek.

I don't mind the PT Cruiser, but GM's answer to it, the HHR, is the one I think is hideous. It's loosely based on the early-1950s Chevy Suburban, another really ugly car.

Of course there was the Edsil front grill that looked like someone sucking a lemon, or....?

Gotta' clarify an error in recent "car talk." The AMC Gremlin was available in a Levi's edition for a time, not the Pacer (greenhouse on wheels), which came out later. No need to let true trivial facts to get in the way of a good joke though.

I think this Toyota Echo out now is pretty ugly.

I owned a 94 Chrysler Concorde, sh*t brown, that thing was really ugly. Put a great stereo in it though. Drove like a damn Cadillac.

There's that Honda thing that looks like a milk carton on wheels. What is that called?

72 Vega for me.

The Honda Element...

Aztec is number one most current ugly though.

What about the Scion..hold up a box of animal crackers then fashion a car to look like it....UUUUggggly

Only Vega that was a good vega were the V-8 models.....

I was reading a car magazine at the doctors office a few years back.

They had an article on a concept car show.

Each concept vehicle was rated on its looks on an "Aztec" scale.

Not so bad looking was 1 Aztec.
Really ugly cars were 5 Aztecs.

Ugliest car I ever had; 74 Vega, canary yellow.

Randy sez: "true trivial facts"

If there is anything about this forum that stands out is everybody's thriving to be factually correct! Thanks for pointing out our error!

Mrs M, that Pacer of yours is NOT a factory Levi edition, its a fake! Therefore the TMV of your car is $35 tops.

hey hey hey, lets not pick on Vegas . . . I had a '72 Vega GT -- vroom vroom. See, lookie here:

http://www.draglist.com/photoimages/Photos-RayRay/Full%20Size/grumpy74.jpg

But she paid more than $35 for the custom upholstry, and that doesn't even include the orange repaint job at Earl Sheib's.

>> I had a '72 Vega GT -- vroom vroom. See, lookie here

I assume that one doesn't have an aluminum engine.

Think maybe she is growing to many buds in that rolling greenhouse!!! Man if it ever caught on fire she would die laughing and with the munchies!!!! LOL

Orange? You mean School Bus Yellow, Close to orange but not quite.


(ps: what's earl's secret? Spray cans. They use spray cans of paint. Yep, right off the shelf of your local Freddies and onto your car! )

Aluminum engine?

Actually it did. I had to swap the engine 3 times. True story. Plus 2 trannies and one rear axle. On the plus side, the AM radio was EXCELLENT -- KISN came in real good.

Yeah those GM radios didn't have the usual 910 hetrodyne squeal heard on most radios.

I had a Vega for a while too.

Liked it actually.

Alum engine went tits up at 100K. Sold the car for $150 and moved on to a Chevette.

Horrible car. Never again...

Elements and Azteks shouldn't be off the road. I wonder how many accidents they cause via blindness, when another driver stares at them because they are so damned ugly?

Just about anything from the early 80s from Chrysler was not only heinous, but a giant heap o'crap. I had a 1980 Plymouth Champ, oxidized baby blue, clear contact paper for one of the wing windows, I had 50 pizza boxes holding up the back of the drivers seat ... though it ran forever, I bought it for $400 and it had 140,000 miles on it. In 2 1/2 years I put another 120,000 miles on it before FINALLY blowing it up, all I had to replace were the brakes and tires. Best $400 I ever spent.

My first car was our family '72 Silver Vega, no GT or V8. I think I paid my dad $200 for it, drove it to, and around Park City Ut, had it for several years in the 80's. Never put chains on it.

I remember the aluminum engine melting down at least once.

And it did have a great radio, I remember picking up some far-away stations at night while driving over Santiam Pass on clear winter nights near the summit.

Azteks, all hybrid cars, especially the toyotas....But though its pretty ugly I actually like the VW 'Thing' known in Mexico as the Safari. Just a tidbit of useless info.

Also due to a bad experience with a Taurus you couldn't pay me to drive one.

Must've been the tranny...Taurus/Sable notorious tranny eaters...and pricey to replace!!!! Neighbor had one and tranny was more than car was worth....goodwill came and towed it away...!!!

1970 Buick Riviera, for those who wanted a boat but lived nowhere near water.

Early Ford Granada (70's version) were just plain boxes on wheels.

Of newer models, I couldn't stand the Honda Element at first, but have to admit it is slowly growing on me.

The newer Ford 500 tries to look like an Accord or Camry, but ended up being a modern day Granada.
Too bad, because the similarly named Ford Galaxy 500 was the "coolest" in the mid-60's! (Dad had one, complete with the super Philco AM radio!)

Old Renaults were ugly.

http://www.autogallery.org.ru/k/r/a39.jpg

Those stupid Roadrunner Superbirds with the spoiler were ugly.

http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/amcar/usa/beep.html

I nominate the Merkin Mobile:

http://www.stuartmacbride.com/en/blog-items/blogimages/general/amc-pacer.jpg

And a close runner-up the Timberfake special edition YUGO UHHG!!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2164/2082/1600/yugo_45.jpg

Has anybody mentioned the "PINTO GAS BOMBS" yet? They should be in here with chevy citations.

I did! (11/8 10:52) They were NEVER cool.

Unlike the Vega, which was a "Playboy Magazine Car of the Year" or something like that, my Dad always bragged.

Hey Merkin...foud you an upgrade...wanna see it?

http://sopadj1.netsons.org/gallery/gal/funny/car.jpg

LOL...That oughta turn a few heads!!!!

The Vega was another Motor Trend car of the year.

Maybe it's the ugliness that actually attracts me, but one of my faves is the AMC Pacer wagon...something about all that glass.

In fact, there's one sitting for sale on a private lot just north of Newport that I see weekly. So far, I've managed to avoid actually stopping to look....but maybe next week..

"there's one sitting for sale on a private lot just north of Newport that I see weekly"

What? Its STILL there?!!

Maybe "Newportradio" needs the cash.

(For the newbies, "Newportradio" was a poster who got himself canned for, among other things, dissing his employer on the radio board.)

Guess he wanted to go down in flames in front of everyone and apparantly succeeded!

Any car with imitation wood panels on the sides......!!!! Seventies vintage had lots then!!! Remember the family truckster from National Lampoons Vacation?

Aztek (aka ass-tek) hands down. Ya never see those things on the road anymore... wonder what happened to them all?

Runners-up, mid-80s K-cars, those "Millenium Falcon" Buicks, 1980-era Ford Fairmonts (really ANY early-80s domestic), and the old AMC frog-cars.

Hey now...Aztek's are not so bad....they made good crash test dummy cars!!! LOL

Re: wood paneling on station wagons. Hate to dissagree, but my family's 1970 Ford LTD Wagon with yellow base and paneling, was a beautiful vehicle. Tastes change, but just like green refrigerators were once popular, so was the wood panel look. Ford sold quite a few of them. The "Vacation" truckster of course was a parody, and by the 80's perhaps a valid one. But my memories of the family LTD wagon was it was a quality vehicle with the three "P's", proud, powerful, and philco"....the last reference to the great AM philco radios that came standard with Fords. No AM radio sounded better! Long live Ford LTD wood paneling wagons...or atleast, in memory.

I hated our Torino Wagon...I was youngest and always had to sit in rear seat facing backwards. Fun staring at people behind you until they just could not take it and had to pass! Or the old pig face on the rear window worked great especially when you had a cold....LOL

Yeah, but those back sections of those wagons were so cool for kids (if you didn't order the 3rd row of seats)...you could almost make a mini car-fort back there! (I know my brother and I fought for territory back there!)...try that in a mini-van. But, come on, our experiences growing up with the then current technology will alway be special. Examples from today?, or does a certain amount of time have to pass? BTW, our neighbors from four doors down bought an LTD Wagon two years later and of course my Dad had to buy another newer one. This was a period of "keeping up with the Jones's", and it really was a competition! While this still exists today to some extent, automobile purchases were the gauge of who was doing better. A '72 Ford was a big advantage to a '70. But a '74 was the ultimate revenge! This was clearly evident to me, just a pre-teen at the time!

Don't forget the '61 Plymouth:

http://www.pbase.com/image/43083861

I like those kinds of cars!

Look at all the curves and chrome! What's not to like?

Because the front end looks like it should be the ASS end....crud that is UUUuuuuugly.

ugh!

kskd, here is something else you'd like, its the 1974 AMC Madador, Motor Trend's Car of the Year -- check it out:

http://www.hubcapcafe.com/i/2002/waukesha/amc_7401.JPG

Now that is just BUTT UGLY!

Here's our family car:

http://www.cars-on-line.com/22225.html

(Ours was brown, no roof rack, and no back-facing barf seats)

No thanks! That one is butt ugly to me!

The other car has lots of interesting curves! This one is just lame and uninspired.

My fave on the chrome is the cars where they put a lot of it on the interior. Some of those look just so cool. --and the radios on most of the older ones are fantastic.