Ugly Cars Or Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder...

[UmBongo]

Ugly or not ugly?

 

That is the question.

 

 

 

 

[spike60]

[steve_earwig]

And that the fuck is what?

 

Agree in the Multiargh, I always remember my dad telling me how practicle and roomy they were. Yeah, especially if there's 6 of you and you're all wearing enormous hats...

 

Now sure what the Belmont's doing there, maybe I just got used to them...

 

May I add

to the list?

[Pillock]

I quite like the Juke. I've had one for a few days.

 

It's different. They're delivering me a new hire car this morning and it'll probably be a case of I'll look at it, and have to look at the badge on the keys to confirm what it is.

[chaseracer]

I win.

 

 

[steve_earwig]

You cheated! You played the Rodius joker

[the judge]

Belmonts were ugly. At the end of the 90's in Tuebrook car auction,Mk2 Astras were 2 grand. Belmonts were 500. Buy Belmont monday,sell in Lpool Echo on Thurs for 1000. had to be a reason for it.....Ugliness methinks

[Asimo]

Aztec trumps Rodius?

 

[steve_earwig]

Urgh! Looks somewhere between the Rodius and the Juke, evil offspring of?

[willswitchengage]

 

IMHO one of the best looking cars ever made, both in estate and sedan

[laser wheels]

You do have to wonder what some American car stylists* are smoking sometimes. They just seemed to go from the sublime to the ridiculous in the space of a decade.

[steve_earwig]

Ah, Peugeot's "blobfish" period.

[RichardM1]

 

My vote goes to the Jeep Compass 'Rallye' - those arches!

[Vin]

And that the fuck is what?

 

1971 Fiat ESV 1500 (Experimental Safety Vehicle) - sort of a cross between a 126 and an 850...

 

There were others...

 

The 2000 concept

 

 

and the 2300 concept...

 

[Richard]

I think the Belmont looks a lot better than the Astra.

[chaseracer]

Those Fiat ESVs were pointers to the future: wilful ugliness, both ends of the car single blobs of sacrificial plastics - and all undone by pillars so wide you can't see round them...

[the judge]

I think the Belmont looks a lot better than the Astra.

So did the Echo readers...

[Asimo]

I like the Multipla despite / because of it's appearance. It isn't beautiful but it does look like good design. Some of the details are lovely. I prefer Multiplas with the grey bumpers.

 

I can't be doing with the "facelifted" one though. A nasty botoxed compromise.

 

 

 

 

 

[DVee8]

I like the juke it is different to every thing on the road.It also keeps a roof over my head.

 

So i will leave this here for your enjoyment

 

[mercrocker]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Square ugly (Mk 4 Zodiac) is better than fat round blobby ugly (lookin' at yo, Scorpio).   I don't understand the idiom in which anything since 1980 has been designed so cannot comment on those.  

[skattrd]

I want an Aztec ... If I do get one I'm pretty sure I'll hate it, but I still want one.

[srad34]

I look at the Nissan Juke and want to vomit, its just plain ugly...   

 

I mean WTF is a crossover? I guess its some thing that looks like off-road but does not work off-road, just in car parks?  

Everyone I have seen is driven by an old fart too, its the new Rover 25.....

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I can't believe I'm defending the Bugeye Scorp, but Ford did make the later ones a little more palletable to Western eyes( judging by the shit the Koreans and Chinese made around this time,they loved it as it was)

[Asimo]

[michael1703]

Certain cars available as hatchbacks look correct but the version with a boot looks like a botch job

 

Focus/mondeo spring to mind

[willswitchengage]

The train world hardly escaped either. This was the prototype HST, its derivative still comprising the majority of the East Coast, Midland and Great Western main line's fleets.

 

 

I went on one these in Belgium once - WTF? 

 

[vulgalour]

I can pick out a few details I really like on the 2002, but put it together as a whole and it just looks gawky and awkward. They're a car I never really understood the appeal of.

 

I wonder if that's why seemingly everyone modifies them?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Certain cars available as hatchbacks look correct but the version with a boot looks like a botch job

Focus/mondeo spring to mind

I suppose this just confirms the eye of the beholder thing, but I followed a 2008 Focus saloon yesterday and thought it looked good.

[fordperv]

I like the juke it is different to every thing on the road.It also keeps a roof over my head.

 

So i will leave this here for your enjoyment

 

 

i have just nearly peed myself when i found this potatoshopped one

[phil_lihp]

Funnily enough I was thinking along the same lines this morning, a couple of the people in my canoe club have these, they're utterly unkillable (and one of them, a mechanic no less, has tried), go well and although I realise that to most people they're goppingly hideous, I rather like them, especially the estate.

 

 

I wouldn't mind a late Scorpio either.  I'd rather have something interestingly ugly than a bland grey box that gets lost in car parks.