# Found! The World's UGLIEST Car! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981 "2005-04-06T02:48:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/41 "2005-04-06T22:51:44Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > [it’s not factory, but i see your motorized bathtub and raise you “Belinda”](http://www.beaterz.com/reviews/0100/p44_belinda/belinda_right.jpg) > > i think i win 😉 Actually, that looks like it started out life as an early 60s Falcon, so it’s not that great of a loss. 😉 And how could I forget about [the Davis](http://www.suarezweb.com/davis/dfotos.htm)? He was another fellow who tried to do the same thing as Preston Tucker and got hounded out of the industry by the courts. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/42 "2005-04-06T23:42:35Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > [it’s not factory, but i see your motorized bathtub and raise you “Belinda”](http://www.beaterz.com/reviews/0100/p44_belinda/belinda_right.jpg) > > i think i win 😉 Have you [seen her mate](http://www.beaterz.com/one_liners/0900/images/belinda_mate_full.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/43 "2005-04-07T01:59:28Z")
Found some[more info](http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12389-1536514,00.html) on the Aurora. > [@](#): > > The fibreglass body is so heavy it takes four people to lift the bonnet > Chassis based on 1954 Buick Roadmaster. Buyers offered choice of engines > The built-in hydraulic jacks ease wheel changing > Driver and three passengers sat on individual captain’s chairs > In 1957 the cost was estimated at $15,000. A Cadillac then cost $4,891 ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/44 "2005-04-07T07:17:54Z")
Wow!! It’s uglier than my brother’s car!! You know, the one he painted using Dutch Boy Green Spray paint!! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/45 "2005-04-07T07:22:07Z")
I really like the Aurora, and would be proud to drive it, but I can’t help thinking that it was appropriate for it to be featured in the [special boating edition of _Mechanix Illustrated_](http://www.rexfeatures.com/features/516925/516925g.htm). ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/46 "2005-04-07T07:53:39Z")
How about the car used by Phyllis Coates (Lois Lane) in the first year Superman episodes? I do not know the model or even the company that manufactured it (American Motors perhaps ?) but that thing was ugly as Hell. Oh certainly not Aurora ugly but my guess is the car was a production vehicle and that a great many of these actually made it to public streets and highways. This could qualify it for ugliest in terms of sheer quantity. Does any “Doper” know the name of that car? ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/47 "2005-04-07T08:16:18Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Nope, [this Fiat](http://www.hoot-uk.com/content/news/archive/fiat/2000/images/fiat_multipla_addons.jpg) is in production and beats the crap out of that Renault. Ah, the Bug-Eyed Swamp Thing. But that one is dangerously close to So-Ugly-It’s-Cute territory. Along with my new favorite, the [Skoda Yeti](http://www.skoda-auto.com/global/showroom/concepts/yeti/) (only a concept car so far, alas). Did any toy companies ever make a model of the Austin-Healy Bugeye Sprite? That thing would have been adorable shrunk down to three inches long… ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/48 "2005-04-07T08:31:58Z")
Sorry about the serial posting, but I forgot to mention: the real problem with the Renault Megane isn’t really that back end. Sure, it’s ugly, non-functional, and reduces your luggage space, but that’s not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that _the Renault people believe it to be the car’s major selling point._ Really. The commercials feature lots of shots of the Renault’s back end, interspersed with shots of human back ends, and a song with repeated lyrics about “shakin’ that @ss”. Someone in a position of power at Renault has clearly, finally, flipped :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/49 "2005-04-07T13:36:05Z")
It saddens me to be reminded that my dad owned the only Isetta dealership in Northeastern Ohio. It went belly-up and now there’s nothing to show for it but some stationary in my mom’s attic and my toddler memories of riding around one. And I second the “Matador” as the all-time ugliest production car ever. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/50 "2005-04-07T14:02:51Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > I’d be remiss if I didn’t submit [this](http://usera.imagecave.com/tuckerfan/72custom.jpg) for consideration as an ugly car. There’s nothing wrong with that car you couldn’t fix by cutting it off just behind the front wheels and buildin new everything from there aft… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/51 "2005-04-07T17:13:01Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > In 1957 the cost was estimated at $15,000. A Cadillac then cost $4,891 Not all of them. [1957 Cadillac Elderoado Brougham: $13,075](http://www.swaqvalley.com/Blueprints/1957_Cadillac_Eldorado_Brougham.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/52 "2005-04-07T18:08:53Z")
On the previous page, I mentioned the car Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) drove in the first year Superman episodes. Well I believe it was a 1950 Rambler Convertible. You be the judge: [http://www.nashcarclub.org/nccaphot/fifty/50\_5021.html](http://www.nashcarclub.org/nccaphot/fifty/50_5021.html) As I stated in my previous posting, it is not as ugly as the other cars posted here. HOWEVER, since this was a _production model_, in the 1950’s you would have been faced with this ugliness _much_ more often than an Aurora. So, by sheer quantity of ugliness, this car is definitely a competitor don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/53 "2005-04-07T20:38:21Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > As I stated in my previous posting, it is not as ugly as the other cars posted here. HOWEVER, since this was a _production model_, in the 1950’s you would have been faced with this ugliness _much_ more often than an Aurora. So, by sheer quantity of ugliness, this car is definitely a competitor don’t you think? Ugly? Not at all - just boring. The ['51 Hudson Hornet](http://www.cardatabase.net/photos/big/00007947.jpg) and the ['50 Packard](http://www.ohioconcours.com/1999/99-127.jpg) have much of the same lines, and an overall better look. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/54 "2005-04-07T21:37:17Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Ugly? Not at all - just boring. The ['51 Hudson Hornet](http://www.cardatabase.net/photos/big/00007947.jpg) and the ['50 Packard](http://www.ohioconcours.com/1999/99-127.jpg) have much of the same lines, and an overall better look. In the case of the Packard, they’re referred to as the “bathtub models” since they remind people of an upsidedown claw foot bathtub. I don’t know about Ramblers or Hudsons, but in the in case of the “bathtub” Packards, they’re _not_ considered to be particularly desirable, when compared to other years. They were the first real design changes made after WWII, and had been designed in a flurry of activity once the war had ended (during the war _all_ carmakers were prohibited from working on new designs, until near the end of the war, the only company which managed to find a loophole in the law was Studebaker, and their ad slogan when they rolled their models out was, “The first, by far, with a postwar car!”). Sadly, it was those designs, along with the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower that spelled the end of Packard. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/55 "2005-04-07T22:21:33Z")
> [@flodnak](#): > > …the real problem with the Renault Megane isn’t really that back end. Uh, how is that pronounced? Is it “megane” as in Japanese-for-eyeglasses or does it mean something else in French? (It’s not that I’m a bad Canadian, necessarily, it’s just that I’m on the West Coast. And a nerd.) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/56 "2005-04-07T22:22:21Z")
Oh, and I’d completely forgot about a company that produced almost nothing _but_ ugly cars, [especially this model.](http://www.sunbeltcars.com/kaiser_darrin.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/57 "2005-04-07T22:39:37Z")
And there’s [Elvis’s Stutz!](http://sharoncarrell_1.tripod.com/stutz/white01.jpg) (The _real_ horror is that back in the 1920s, Stutzs were beautiful cars, and someone decided to “revive” the brand by producing _that_ thing. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/58 "2005-04-08T00:00:50Z")
Okay I’m going to give that [Nash Convertible](http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/lambdacarclub/LCC_OLD_Site/pages/Gallery/WadeJ/1WadeJFrame.html) one more try. Scroll to the bottom - it looks deliciously ugly with the top down doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/59 "2005-04-08T02:16:03Z")
Still not ugly. Odd, yes, but not ugly. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981/60 "2005-04-08T03:41:23Z")
> [@Arwin](#): > > It’s really ugly, imho. But in GT4 you do get to see some of the **inner prats** moving when you drive it, which is quite impressive. Until I clicked the link and realized that was a typo, I was ready to give up an arm to get one of those cars with the moving prats. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-worlds-ugliest-car/297981.md?page=4)