The AMC Pacer was also ugly. My mother sold her 1964 Cadillac Series 62 and bought one of these. And I mean just like this one. Yuck.
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I doubt that any of them made it across the pond, but there was also the Bond 3-wheel minicar of the '50s.
Edited to add… I just realized that the Bond Minicar featured the “classic long hood/short rear deck” that one of our forum members likes.
It’s a classic and a beauty!
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I’d guess the engineers locked the designers out of the building while they were working. That car is all function and no form.
But it works and that’s what the French needed after war!
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+1
Europe was so impoverished after WW II that the only cars that could be sold in significant quantities were models that were cheap enough for people to afford to buy, and economical enough for them to be able to afford to run them.
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The bodies were plastic and came with a repair kit: rods of plastic to heat up to melt into the cracks.
I thought they looked pretty cool back in the day. The wedge Lagona did NOT age well!
There are cars that were looked attractive only in their day and those that are timeless. A Jag XKE is timeless. An XJS coupe, not so timeless.
A Ferrari 60s GTO is timeless, the 80s Testarossa looks dated.
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Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. I liked the Stout Scarab. Now, for the new iteration by Fiat, few modern Fiats are attractive.
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