The new grilles on Toyotas and Lexuses make them look like angry carp.
I still have my 2005 Element. It has the 5-speed clutch, all wheel drive and mileage is around 113,000. I take it for regular service and must decline offers to buy it from every dealer that sees it. Not letting it go. I love that car, ugly though it may be.
Kind of like a 2013 Buick Encore front grill, like this?
https://www.google.com/search?q=buick+front+grill&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmxK2a2qXMAhUQ_mMKHQLkDA0Q_AUICCgC&biw=1024&bih=672#hl=en-us&tbm=isch&q=2013+buick+encore+front+grill
There is one current car that I find especially ugly. I find it interesting that it hasn’t been mentioned yet. I’ll wait a little longer before I reveal it.
Anything by Scion looks terrible.
I agree! That one is super ugly!! Odd that it has been skipped so far. I’ll also refrain.
It really is!
I think I know which one you’re referring to and I completely agree (and also it’s bigger version). Ugh
In the ugly car sweepstakes, one vehicle has the first 10 places forever locked up: Sir Vival.
That’s how I think of the Lincoln mk T - a new class of vehicle, the Sport Utility Hearse.
Also a lot of Chrysler products. They seem to have IMO a perverse focus on the worst looking vehicles of times past. If they want to hearken back to the good old days they should build a modern-tech version of an WW II vintage MG type thing, not some ridiculous Dick Tracy-mobile. Or the PT Cruiser, ugh.
And they’ve got a bunch of cars from the early 2000s which seem deliberately designed to have shitty visibility (I know because I’ve rented enough of them on business trips).
But I actually like the Honda Element and Nissan Cube:)
PT cruiser
Chevy HHR
Dodge Kalibur
All wretched. Not just looks, but all around terrible. For some reason HHR’s all smell like dry cat food to me.
Not exactly “butt ugly” but I think the current Prius is a mess, too many curves and sharp edges. I prefer the previous model.
The Honda Crosstour - who in their infinite wisdom thought this was a nice looking rear end?
I immediately said “Aztek Lite” the first time I saw a Crosstour and laughed aloud. I guess the Honda sales guy didn’t like it. He was kind of derisive when I asked if they had any Fits with manual transmissions.
Personally, and this may not be too popular, but…the latest generations of Ford Mustangs. They look like melted bricks with air intakes.
Granted, an aesthetic improvement over, say, 70s cars, which looked like sharpened bricks with air intakes. And uglier paint.
But, then, this is coming from someone who’s still holding out for an IAD Alien. I’ve long accepted that my tastes don’t really mesh with the rest of the world’s.
I always thought Kia Souls were weird and ugly until I bought one.
It’s a great little car. Yeah, its shape is kind of weird, but everything else makes up for that.
Like some cars it looks better from the inside looking out. It doesn’t look that bad. Unique, yes. Ugly? No not really.
P.S., folks, I’m still waiting for someone to identify the really-and-truly butt ugly car I hinted at in post 24, and then was bantered about in 26-28.
Okay, it does have a sinister looking Asian-ninja-warrior kind of face to it. (I can say that because I’m mostly Asian, can’t I?)
And wow, that IAD Alien came out in the mid-80s. Don’t hold out too much longer for that to be produced.
Aztek Lite - now that fits, and is funny!
The Fit with the MT reminds me of back in 2001 when I was car shopping and just about settled on a CR-V, I really wanted one with a 5-MT tranny. The salesman looked at me sideways funny, asking, Who drives a manual these days? And, Why would you?
I held firm until he found one that I liked, and that CR-V ended up lasting 14 years and 225,000 miles before I sold it for my current rig. It took a lickin’ and kept on tickin’, like the old Timex watch commercials would say. And I didn’t baby that CR-V. I took it more on off-roading than many Jeep and Rover owners with their pavement queens do. Oh and the original clutch lasted over 200,000 miles too, including towing some heavy loads.
My mother bought one last year. I have no idea why. It’s a nice enough car on the inside, but so are lots of cars that don’t have gigantic fat asses. And she lives alone and has no pets or anything, so why not buy just a regular sedan?
Honda has discontinued the Crosstour, so it is no longer a qualifier for the “Ugliest Car Actually Being Made And Sold In North America Now” category, and it’s not even a contender in the “Ugly Cars Of Days Gone By” category when there is the Nissan Cube.