The ugliest cars...?
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Looking at the front of a Kia is not exactly a treat for the eyes :yuck:
It's all a matter of opinion.
I'd far rather have my doblo than many other similarly sized cars.
If it hadn't been for the multipla's miniscule boot size, I would've been very tempted.
I would far rather have a car that no-one wants to look at than have one that everyone desires. In theory there's less chance of it being nicked.
i cannot see any chav or boy racer being seen dead in a dobbin.
I'd far rather have my doblo than many other similarly sized cars.
If it hadn't been for the multipla's miniscule boot size, I would've been very tempted.
I would far rather have a car that no-one wants to look at than have one that everyone desires. In theory there's less chance of it being nicked.
i cannot see any chav or boy racer being seen dead in a dobbin.
As you say sludgeguts its a matter of opinion.
I used to hate the multipla when I was younger and then I ended up owning one. It was a great car, not without fault, but not the cars fault just the people who hadn't looked after before I got it. I love the way the mk1 looks.
I also had a ford ka which I think still look great, much nicer than the new model.
Off topic slightly but I much prefer the looks of the mk2 doblo to the current one.
I used to hate the multipla when I was younger and then I ended up owning one. It was a great car, not without fault, but not the cars fault just the people who hadn't looked after before I got it. I love the way the mk1 looks.
I also had a ford ka which I think still look great, much nicer than the new model.
Off topic slightly but I much prefer the looks of the mk2 doblo to the current one.
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The Multipla is a piece of design genius, and it hasn't dated and the details are fantastic. My only criticism is that the headlights might have been more twinkly. The revised version was no improvement.
The Ka is a very clever and handsome little car. It hasn't dated either.
The Cayenne is a big expensive car. It isn't beautiful.
The Juke is a fashion statement which has poor outward visibility and poor rear room, so its looks are obviously paramount - and it fails as a piece of design. It doesn't solve any motoring problems and it has nothing new to give. It looks tired already.
The 2CV was a piece of engineering genius. Really. The looks followed on from all the practical requirements demanded by the man who drew up the design specifications. It is still a modern car and the engineering solutions are amazing. The Dyane was more rigid and therefore handled and drove better, but that's by-the-by.
All of these cars are greats in their own way, bar the fashionista Juke of course, and to some extent the Cayenne, and I could name any number of ugly pointless cars that have been forgotten. None of the cars listed will ever be forgotten, because they are great cars.
The Doblo was a brilliant car, with great functionality and very clever detailing. It drove well and was sooo easy to use. The new one looks prettier, but none of the functional details improve on the first version very much, and some of the detail designs don't work as well. I have owned both so I know!
What a ****tish list!
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The Ka is a very clever and handsome little car. It hasn't dated either.
The Cayenne is a big expensive car. It isn't beautiful.
The Juke is a fashion statement which has poor outward visibility and poor rear room, so its looks are obviously paramount - and it fails as a piece of design. It doesn't solve any motoring problems and it has nothing new to give. It looks tired already.
The 2CV was a piece of engineering genius. Really. The looks followed on from all the practical requirements demanded by the man who drew up the design specifications. It is still a modern car and the engineering solutions are amazing. The Dyane was more rigid and therefore handled and drove better, but that's by-the-by.
All of these cars are greats in their own way, bar the fashionista Juke of course, and to some extent the Cayenne, and I could name any number of ugly pointless cars that have been forgotten. None of the cars listed will ever be forgotten, because they are great cars.
The Doblo was a brilliant car, with great functionality and very clever detailing. It drove well and was sooo easy to use. The new one looks prettier, but none of the functional details improve on the first version very much, and some of the detail designs don't work as well. I have owned both so I know!
What a ****tish list!
T W A T T I S H
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I hate articles like this. As previously mentioned its all a matter of opinion.
Personally I don't like the look of the Multipla, but I would never say to anyone 'your car is ugly'. I would just say I don't like it personally.
The Ka? Not my favourite car but certainly not a ugly car in my views.
2CV? I'm not sure how that can be described as ugly? It's somewhat quirky but ugly? It sold for decades and decent examples are worth a few bob nowadays.
Personally I don't like the look of the Multipla, but I would never say to anyone 'your car is ugly'. I would just say I don't like it personally.
The Ka? Not my favourite car but certainly not a ugly car in my views.
2CV? I'm not sure how that can be described as ugly? It's somewhat quirky but ugly? It sold for decades and decent examples are worth a few bob nowadays.
Non of these so called 'ugly cars' have a thing on the Stutz
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Non of these so called 'ugly cars' have a thing on the Stutz
Did that crash into an elephant?
My god thats disgusting!
This was in an email confused.com sent me the other day. I was very tempted to send them a piece about the 5 dumbest insurance companies, with first place to Confused for insulting the taste of their potential customers.
Needless to say, when I have been looking for multi-car insurance over the last week, I haven't bothered using confused.com.
Needless to say, when I have been looking for multi-car insurance over the last week, I haven't bothered using confused.com.
Some things don't make me feel proud to be British:
Listed on many of the top ten ugliest car sites...
My Gran bought one brand new, it had a serious mechanical falilure in less than a month (snapped engine mount), it also had a square steering wheel (standard feature). She promptly returned it and bought a Ford Escort...
And a bit of American Muscle:
The Charger looked great... without the Daytona body kit.
Listed on many of the top ten ugliest car sites...
My Gran bought one brand new, it had a serious mechanical falilure in less than a month (snapped engine mount), it also had a square steering wheel (standard feature). She promptly returned it and bought a Ford Escort...
And a bit of American Muscle:
The Charger looked great... without the Daytona body kit.
Some things don't make me feel proud to be British:
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Listed on many of the top ten ugliest car sites...
My Gran bought one brand new, it had a serious mechanical falilure in less than a month (snapped engine mount), it also had a square steering wheel (standard feature). She promptly returned it and bought a Ford Escort...
And a bit of American Muscle:
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The Charger looked great... without the Daytona body kit.
The square steering wheel was one of the options/later model. My dad had an allegro whilst his was in for service (the garage simply gave you any old car they'd had in for PX - it didn't half shift and on the motorway, it felt very stable. Father in law bought one about 10 years ago, he knows nothing about cars - so went off on his own & bought an austin aggro. I was actually amazed at how easy it was to work on - I had the engine & gearbox out & completely reconditioned it. It went so well, FiL took it flying
Breakdown had to drag it out of a tree (about 6ft of the ground).Austin had a (deservedly) bad reputation when they went through a phase - all their cars seemed to be badly made (quite possibly during the 70s when half the workforce didn't seem to give a damn & spent more time out on strike!
:yuck:
Style-wise the Stutz didn't have one redeeming feature. They were aimed at the Hollywood market but ended up with the Pimp market
:yuck::yuck::yuck:Non of these so called 'ugly cars' have a thing on the Stutz
Style-wise the Stutz didn't have one redeeming feature. They were aimed at the Hollywood market but ended up with the Pimp market
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Despite all the problems BL had, I felt kind of sorry for the design department. The rest of the British and indeed most of the world's car industry was building front engined, rear wheel drive, cart sprung, ohv engined mundanity, BL tried to carry on with the Mini legacy. In the mid '70s I worked with a bloke who was almost freakishly tall at 6'8" and very slim. He had to wear a suit at work and couldn't find off the peg clothes anywhere, so you can imagine the trouble he had trying to find a car that would fit. He eventually settled on an Austin 1100. My Dad had one as well and compared with other small cars we had, Viva HB & HC there was no problem getting parents and two sons plus enough luggage for a week in Newquay or Nefyn.The square steering wheel was one of the options/later model. My dad had an allegro whilst his was in for service (the garage simply gave you any old car they'd had in for PX - it didn't half shift and on the motorway, it felt very stable. Father in law bought one about 10 years ago, he knows nothing about cars - so went off on his own & bought an austin aggro. I was actually amazed at how easy it was to work on - I had the engine & gearbox out & completely reconditioned it. It went so well, FiL took it flying
Austin had a (deservedly) bad reputation when they went through a phase - all their cars seemed to be badly made (quite possibly during the 70s when half the workforce didn't seem to give a damn & spent more time out on strike!
Likewise our Mk2 Landcrab that came along about 10 years later. I used to think it was ridiculously roomy. It could easily have lost a few inches of legroom in exchange for a bigger boot. From memory it had more passenger space than a Zodiac or Mk1 Consul/Grandad and the Victor-VX 4/90-Ventora. It didn't handle badly either.
Then along came the Allegro, or All-aggro if you like. Really it was a logical next step from the 1100 and they were pushing the whole concept further, despite the much maligned "Quartic" steering wheel. It had an instrument binnacle or pod if you like which almost all manufacturers moved on to and had a complete range of engines from 1100 to 1750 cc unlike rivals which effectively only had two or three.
Yet still the Escort & Viva outsold it so the Marina/Ital was their alternative and that met with nothing but scorn either. Even now the likes of Top Gear laugh at those BL cars but I'm not sure if they really should be laughing at the company rather than the cars.
If you look through the pages of classic cars magazines you won't find many Escort 1100Ls but you will find Mexicos, RS1600s & RS1800s. Perhaps BLs mistake was NOT having an equivalent to stir desires and decorate the walls of young boys' bedrooms
In essence I agree. the Land Crab was a fantastic car, and I thought it was very handsome too. It was huge, comfortable, and good to drive. Far better in fact than the conventional Americanised Fords and Vauxhalls of the day. But the Allegro was less pretty than the 1100/1300s that preceded it (Pininfarina styled those) and this, combined with the fact that is was unreliable, wrecked its chances.
The Morris Marina was poor in every department, and was launched at the same time as the Citroen GS. Leaf springs and a rear wheel drive live axle in a deadly dull body versus self-levelling oleopneumatic suspension, disc brakes, and a horizontally opposed four cylinder air cooled engine, in a fabulous Pininfarina influenced shape. My god, the GS was pretty, and the great Citroen SM was a dream. The DS my father had - wow! My mother also had two GSs, and they rusted! But they were good to drive and very comfortable.
And the reason my mother was buying French cars was because her Riley 1.5, followed by two Minis, were increasingly unreliable, so she finally bought a very weird looking Citroen Dyane, one of the first in Britain, and it was totally reliable, and a comfort revelation, and so were the two succeeding ones , and all the other French cars she subsequently bought. None of our family has bought a car built in Britain since the late sixties!
The Morris Marina was poor in every department, and was launched at the same time as the Citroen GS. Leaf springs and a rear wheel drive live axle in a deadly dull body versus self-levelling oleopneumatic suspension, disc brakes, and a horizontally opposed four cylinder air cooled engine, in a fabulous Pininfarina influenced shape. My god, the GS was pretty, and the great Citroen SM was a dream. The DS my father had - wow! My mother also had two GSs, and they rusted! But they were good to drive and very comfortable.
And the reason my mother was buying French cars was because her Riley 1.5, followed by two Minis, were increasingly unreliable, so she finally bought a very weird looking Citroen Dyane, one of the first in Britain, and it was totally reliable, and a comfort revelation, and so were the two succeeding ones , and all the other French cars she subsequently bought. None of our family has bought a car built in Britain since the late sixties!
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As I've already posted, I think the Allegro got a rough time from the press and, with the general ill feeling towards BL with its industrial relations problems, the great British public just joined in.Some things don't make me feel proud to be British:
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Listed on many of the top ten ugliest car sites...
My Gran bought one brand new, it had a serious mechanical falilure in less than a month (snapped engine mount), it also had a square steering wheel (standard feature). She promptly returned it and bought a Ford Escort...
And a bit of American Muscle:
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The Charger looked great... without the Daytona body kit.
The Charger was quite a good looking car, especially the one in Bullitt although the one you've shown was, I think, possibly the Road Runner which was (at least in this version) connected with NASCAR racing
http://encarsglobe.com/photo/md/dodge-charger/05/
http://encarsglobe.com/photo/md/dodge-charger/09/
Although personally I prefer the Chevy
http://encarsglobe.com/photo/im/chevrolet-camaro-lt/08/
http://encarsglobe.com/photo/im/chevrolet-camaro-lt/09/
Yup, here it is, although like Ford & GM, Chrysler used to offer similar models from their in house rivals:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=do...dia.org%2Fwiki%2FPlymouth_Road_Runner;250;166
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=do...dia.org%2Fwiki%2FPlymouth_Road_Runner;250;166
Going completely OT but I'd prefer a Hemi Cuda or a 69 Camaro preferably with a Nelson engine.
Still not really an option with our fuel prices. Lol
As for the Allegro you you chaps are welcome to it.
Still not really an option with our fuel prices. Lol
As for the Allegro you you chaps are welcome to it.
Being fair to British layland the allegro was just a boring drab car, however the allegro vanden plas (as pictured above) with that hideous wanna be rolls Royce piggy nosed grill took ugly to a new level for British manufacturing.
That all said its still not a Stutz
That all said its still not a Stutz
