I’m betting on the Nissan Leaf. Looks like a bug-eyed trout from the front and like someone pulled their upper lip down over their chin from the back.
The Leaf is homely, yes, but don’t bet the farm 'cuz you’d lose your chickens and pigs.
There is uglier out there, yessirree. The Leaf is a good try, though - looks only its mother could love.
(about the Honda Crosstour, or “Aztek Lite”…
When I hear stories like this, I can’t help but guess that car salespeople have a contest among themselves called,
“I Can’t Believe They Manufacture This Crap And Then Want Us To Sell Them. Betcha I Can Sell More Than You Can.”
It actually has a shorter name: “They Screw Us. So We Screw The Customer. Who Can Sell The Most?”
Okay but I’m asking for what ugly cars are you seeing out on the road these days. I saw a Crosstour yesterday, complete with driver wearing a paper bag on his head. Honda includes the paper bag for free and eats the ten cent cost.
Fiat 500? That gets my vote, at least…
The Crosstour is one ugly ass car (literally) but you cannot seriously tell me it’s as ugly as a Nissan Cube. The Crosstour looks like an ugly car because its ass is too big. But other than its enormous posterior it just looks like a car. The Cube looks like a toy, or perhaps an anthropomorphic character in a small children’s straight-to-streaming movie called “Christopher The Car Gets Reconstructive Surgery.”
I’m convinced the Cube is, in fact, the very car that was the subject of dealership bets over who could actually sell one to an unwitting customer in the very manner you describe. They probably sat in their offices exchanging $20 bills over which incoming customer would actually be the chump to buy one. I’d like to know how they explained the Cube Pubes or the weird roof liner with a straight face.
I mean, the Honda Crosstour isn’t even as ugly as Nissan’s SECOND-ugliest car, the Nissan Juke, which is a positively ridiculous car. It looks like they took the bottom of a normal small SUV and welded on the top of a Mini Cooper.
Yep, you got it, the Juke. I think it is the ugliest. Even uglier than the Cube, to me. That’s what I was fishing for upthread. Take a look at these images. And some have a high rear wing like the old Plymouth Road Runner Super Bird? (Super Bird pic) Ridiculous on a Juke. Even a search on ‘ugly nissan cars’ comes up with a lot of Jukes, and other Nissans already mentioned here. And the name is bad too. Just change one letter and you go from Juke to Puke.
The Nissan Juke. I’m not a fan. It is ugly.
Or Joke.
I think the Leaf has it beat, especially from the front, but both have those afterthought headlights. Where do they come up with the names? The Murano? Sounds like a toilet fixture.
The Fiat 500 tries for the cuteness factor, and around these parts it’s popular so they might have succeeded (please no jokes about Californians). Fiat 500 images here. I am probably biased because my first-ever car was a Fiat (1979 X1/9, a fun and sexy car; mine was metallic blue like in this article). Great car, lots of fun.
Back to the 500: when Fiat put Catrinel Menghia in their commercial, I was hooked but admittedly not really looking at the car. (Catrinel Menghia Fiat 500 Abarth commercial) - great commercial. Let’s give props too, to Matthew Rocheleau. He’s the guy in the commercial and together all 3 (the car, him, and her) make it work well. But I’m only looking at one of the three. Guess which one.
The Juke is what happens to the Pathfinder after it gets designed down into the Murano then designed down into the Rogue and then finally the Juke.
On the fourth generation of trying to do the same style the inbreeding rears its ugly misshaped head.
I think you missed this thread from last month:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19209044#post19209044
I did, yes, and thanks for that. I searched for ‘ugly car’ in thread titles, not ‘ugliest’, so that’s why that was missed.
Reading through that thread, I will say that some ugly cars are “initially ugly but have lasting power to eventually become endearing”. Like the “Ugly Duckling”, the Citroën 2CV (images). Or maybe I’m a little on the young side to still call it ugly because it came out in 1948 and I’m a child of the 60s. But, Citroën designs have almost always looked homely to me, even though their powertrains have included some forward thinking concepts.
Some of us have been talking about interesting cars for a couple of years now, over in this MPSIMS thread, What’s the most interesting car you saw today?. There we tend to share cars that are nice or interesting (and sometimes, ugly).
After doing a brief search (that missed the thread that wguy123 mentioned) I wanted to start a discussion on the ugly designs out there, because I find it flabbergasting that not only did
(A) a design team think its looks had some redeeming value, but then
(B) a manufacturer pumped ome big buck into actually building it, and then
(C) they checked with some folks to make sure it had at least an agreeable (palatable?) design, and then
(D) they pushed it in our faces that then
(E) caused some of us to do a brief vomit swallow when we reacted to it in real life.
Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. That, and,
Different strokes for different folks.
No matter how they paint it, the Bugatti Veyron is consistently on my list of butt ugly cars.
Wow, I think both of those are great looking! The Magnum could be had with V8 and AWD too.
I gotta agree on the Juke. It’s so ugly that it almost looks like there are two cars, one you see from the front and one you see from the back, and both are remarkably ugly.
I swear when I first saw it I thought is was some kind of bizarre hipster hearse. For those who haven’t seen it, here’s a link.
It is, yes, but I also think that the mythical Shelby Tuatara is ugly. And not in the good way that a supercar owner would want. The is something wrong with how it looks that I cannot quite put my finger on.
I think the BMW i3 is one of the ugliest cars on the road today. And frankly, the BMW i8 isn’t too much better. They actually look worse in person.
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Wow, different strokes for sure. I think the i8 is gorgeous.
We have an i3 (leased, all electric, and with incentives from spouse’s company it’s cheaper than we used to pay for gas for his commute). I don’t think it’s ugly–it’s kinda cute IMO–but we both think it looks like a toaster.
My vote for butt-ugliest car on the road is the [Smart]
(https://www.google.com/search?q=smart+car&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwim2cG3p7LMAhUY_mMKHd2IAsYQ_AUIBygB&biw=1074&bih=831). Which isn’t even really a car, but a rollerskate with delusions of grandeur.