# Ugliest. Car. EVER
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 28, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657 "2002-03-28T23:39:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/1 "2002-03-28T23:39:27Z")
> **[Toyota Scion](https://www.toyota.com/scion/)**
>
> Official 2017 Toyota scion site. Learn more about the scion, Toyota's Mid-size 4WD family SUV, including MPG, pricing (MSRP), features & photos.
(Be grateful I didn’t make you go through the cheesy flash entry page. I didn’t figure out it was a website about a car until someone told me. I thought it was some sort of music download place.)
Ugh. Like a shoebox on matchbox wheels. “The bbX isn’t a van or a wagon. It’s not another SUV. It’s an urban conveyance.” Mm-hmm. Did they have to make it so _square_? And tiny baby wheels, and 2" off the ground! You’ll scrape the undercarriage on a speed bump. I thought Pontiac’s “slap-body-cladding-on-everything” styles were bad, but Toyota has just beaten them for the Title of Ugliest Car Maker.
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/2 "2002-03-28T23:46:13Z")
Ugh. This was so bad I didn’t want to spend any more time than necessary on the site.
So I didn’t realize this was a Toyota vehicle. Good Lord, I love Toyota, but this??
What’s up with that black interior with blue highlighting? I was hoping it was just some cutesy graphic trick in the pictures, but I have a strange, sad, sinking feeling that this is what it indeed looks like.
I still think the Aztek is about the ugliest thing out there. But this is not too far off.
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/3 "2002-03-29T00:17:52Z")
The very first thing I read on that page was “Is image important?” Then I saw the car. All I can say is that anyone who cares about their image won’t be driving that monstrosity.
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### Author:  [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/4 "2002-03-29T00:19:48Z")
Does anyone know where the toast comes out?
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/5 "2002-03-29T00:20:40Z")
Called my husband in to look at it - his reaction: “That’s ugly - what is it?” Are they taking over boxy now that Volvo is getting a bit more streamlined??
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/6 "2002-03-29T00:24:19Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by poohpah chalupa \*
> \*\*Does anyone know where the toast comes out? \*\*
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Cracked me up!!!
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/7 "2002-03-29T00:39:23Z")
Hell, it’s so ugly they won’t even show the whole thing at one time.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/8 "2002-03-29T00:45:54Z")
The only think I liked was the sound system. Did you see those speakers? Of course, no way in HELL would that be standerd, and even then, it doesn’t make up for a complete lack of anything else even remotley nice looking.
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### Author:  [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/9 "2002-03-29T00:49:45Z")
I’m still trying to decide if it’s uglier than the Aztek…but it is unquestionably a really friggin’ ugly car.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/10 "2002-03-29T00:58:24Z")
[Fiat Multipla](http://fiat.papp-es-tarsai.hu/tipusok.htm)
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/11 "2002-03-29T01:10:20Z")
From what I’ve been able to gather, Toyota intends to attempt to replicate what they did when they spun off Lexus as a separate nameplate, with this that is so far known as Scion (I pray they get a new name, that will not sell). Their target being apparently the kind of people that will be interested in referring to an automobile as an “urban conveyance” (isn’t that a streetcar, anyway?).
Apparently the Toyota Matrix is a sort of trial balloon. If you look further at the above page, you’ll see the Scion ccX looks like a 2-door Matrix. And guess what GM division sells the American-branded “twin” of the Matrix? Pontiac (the Vibe).
So my guess is that whoever is the drug fiend that has been hanging around Pontiac’s design division for a decade has now turned on someone at Toyota to whatever hazardous chemical he has been abusing.
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### Author:  [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/12 "2002-03-29T01:42:49Z")
Lemme guess:
The horn is the voice of James Earl Jones.
Breathing.
Heavily.
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### Author:  [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/13 "2002-03-29T01:56:49Z")
I’ll be the first to admit that I know nothing at all about cars… but that thing is just hideous. The only cars whose names I seem to catch are the ugly ones… that is getting very close to the level of an Aztek and it scares me.
Kitty
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### Author:  [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/14 "2002-03-29T02:43:29Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \*
> \*\*[Fiat Multipla](http://fiat.papp-es-tarsai.hu/tipusok.htm) \*\*
I actually like the Multipla. It’s very ugly, but in a way I find attractive. It’s looks like a French gendarme’s cap.
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### Author:  [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/15 "2002-03-29T02:54:54Z")
OK, now there’s _three_ cars on my personal fugly list:
Pontiac Aztek
Honda Insight
Toyota bbX
(bbX clearly stand for big boX)
**poohpah chalupa** : ROFL!
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### Author:  [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/16 "2002-03-29T03:02:42Z")
OK, now there’s _three_ cars on my personal fugly list:
Pontiac Aztek
Honda Insight
Toyota bbX
(bbX clearly stand for big boX)
**poohpah chalupa** : ROFL!
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### Author:  [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/17 "2002-03-29T04:04:43Z")
Wow is that bad.
When I clicked on the thread, I was definitely thinking of the Aztek. I went to the site and nearly died. Also, I think the Ford Focus is pretty bad. All of them are too… stupid.
And yes, I’ll have to agree with the fact that “the box” looks like a toaster…
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### Author:  [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/18 "2002-03-29T04:16:00Z")
I’m not saying this just to be contrary, but I kind of like it. I like the evil looking front-end and windshield, the twin pipes, the big glass.
I don’t like that blue trimmed interior, though.
I like the minimalism that goes into the design, and the black wheels.
The ask “what will yours be like?”
I’ll take mine 300 h.p. with turbo, bulletproof, 6-speed, and all wheel drive.
They give me those options, I’ll gladly shell out 25k for that humpty-mobile.
But, what turns me on about cars isn’t really exterior design.
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### Author:  [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/19 "2002-03-29T04:19:11Z")
There are cars very similar to this (in shape and appearance) in the _Gran Turismo_ series of driving games. One of them is the Mazda Demio, and another is made by Suzuki by I forget its name.
They are ugly as poop, have a measly 90-some horsepower, are useful only in the races limited to just them, and are sometimes the only car you can afford early on. AFAIK they have never been sold in the U.S. and are the bane of gamers everywhere who want to know why this overgrown golf carts are in the game instead of more American muscle cars.
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### Author:  [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-car-ever/100657/20 "2002-03-29T04:19:40Z")
I think it looks great. Sorry.
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