Stumbled upon this article on “Ten Ugly Cars at the New York International Car Show”. I like a few of them. Few of them are Azteks, Yugos or even Renault LeCars.
It’s been many years since an ugly car thread. Do you like any of these cars? Which vehicle really is the antithesis of aestheticism?
Cybervehicles ate also fair game.
I don’t understand the list. A generic looking station wagon from 1991?
Several SUVs that look like most other SUVs.
A Beetle? A Camaro? That Jag?
This article makes no sense to me.
The Aztek is the first car I think of. I read the title and though Aztek.
The Pacer was even uglier to be fair.
I haven’t yet read the rest of the thread, but I like the Toyota Rhombus, and the canary yellow Jag. I know nothing about cars except that I love to take photos of them, so I don’t know how the shapes affect the performance of the vehicles, but “they look good!”
I think those are the ugly cars at this year’s NY International Auto Show, not the all time ugliest.
The 1980s era Chrysler K car. Some cars are called ugly because they have a distinctive look that people are not used to. This car was ugly because of its utterly banal, uninspired design. This is true ugliness:
But so many were older cars and basically generic cars and the Bug is pretty beloved.
I like the Camaro, I don’t think it looks as good as the 70s Camaro and I think the 60s Camaro is one of the best looking cars ever built, but the modern Camaro is far from ugly.
The Jag looked fine to me.
Then there was several generic looking SUVs and a older wagon. The orange rims are ugly but otherwise just a wagon. It is an odd jumping off point.
The Rhombus is odd for sure, but so many concept cars over the decades are odd and never see production.
It looks like the Camaro & Bug are specifically about the paint jobs.
The Pacer: Yes is is ugly, though not generic.
I had one of those when I was in graduate school. “Uninspired design” is a good descriptor.
The Aztek is the one and only, now and forever, “winner” of the ugliest car award. The vehicle was cited by the government for several bad-taste violations.
Though there are contenders, such as Le Car. But modern designers are giving these old eyesores a run for their money. The Kia Soul, the Audi A8 or Q3, Toyota Rav 4, and love it or hate it the new Batmobile Corvette, all rolling turdmobiles.
And I like the Pacer. The Mirthmobile!
FTR, I drive a Rav 4. I think it is boring looking and a fairly generic small SUV. It looks very similar to same class offerings from Honda, Hyundai and Nissan.
And the Pacer is maybe the ugliest production car ever. You’re weird. 
Wait, do you wear a mullet? Are you actually Garth?
The 80s was just an awful decade for car design in general, for some reason. Take the iconic Mustang. In just 16 years it went from this in its 1964 debut:
…to this:
The 1980 – '85 Cadillac Seville. I think it was a Car and Driver reviewer who said it looked like a truck had backed up onto its trunk; that reviewer also said the truck should have kept going.
Part of the Mustang ugliness was calling that boring looking car a Mustang. If is was called the Appaloosa, it probably wouldn’t be remembered as ugly, just not remembered at all.
A friend had one in some brown color. She called it the mom-mobile because cops never noticed her and she could speed in it.
Mine was a yellow Plymouth Reliant coupe, which looked more-or-less like the picture below. Inspired by the color, and the reputation of the K-cars, my dad bought personalized plates for it, which read “A LEMON.” 
My MIL drove one of those yellow ones for years, with the help of my mechanic FIL. ‘Reliant-K’ - if there ever was a more ironic moniker for a car, I would like to see that.
You’re an advertising guy, no? Was that before the iconic “Lemon” VW ad?
I forgot about the AMC Gremlin. Don’t get it wet!
I knew there was another car to go with the Pacer.
Decades after; the “Lemon” ad was part of DDB’s famous campaign for the Beetle in the 1960s, and it looks like that ad, in particular, dates to 1960.
But, wait! We can make it even uglier if we make it look like a pair of Levi’s denim jeans.
