Naming the Cube (etc) is shooting fish in a barrel. For true ugly, the Maybach Landaulet. Generic and huge, virtually 0 mpg, and MSRP starting at $1,000,000. Yes, $1,000,000. It’s not only ugly, it’s also obscene in every way you can think of. Resources consumed to make it, resources used to maintain and motivate it, sheer ostentacious overkill, stupendous cost, and that isn’t even to mention the most popular optional extra: the peasant volitizer death-ray.
This won’t really qualify universally, but by comparison, the 2010 Mustang is hideous when stacked up to the 2009 Mustang. What the designers did to the 2010 Mustang should be criminal. That rear end puckered up, smooshed, amusement-park-ride look can only be described as a bad idea that actually got worse. My testosterone actually drops when I even get near one. Bring back the 2009 look!!!
US market? The Camaro. Looks like a Cadillac CTS and Dodge Charger (both rather homely on their own) had a love child and it got all the ugliest bits of each. Doesn’t look too bad from far enough away (like a mile), but the closer you get the worse it looks.
It’s followed closely by (and I say this as a happy 350Z owner) the 370Z.
Looks like a camper comversion with the camper top in the UP position. At firts glnace I thought it was a streamlined version of the VW Westfalia camper van.
These bolt on kits were later mad available and widely advertised in car magazines.
As someone who really wants to see electric cars succeed, I cringe at how ugly the styling on some of them can be. I really wish, for instance, that the new Nissan Leaf didn’t have that fish snout of a front grill . . .
But the real prize has to go to the Sunmotor Coupe DX . . .
Take a Pontiac Aztek, stuff a canoe inside, then shrink the car . . . but leave the canoe full size.
The Smart car always makes me smile–in the same way that the Clown Car at this circus does–i.e.–somewhat ridiculous.
Apparently Mercedes has finally saturated the US market with these abominable little overpriced machines. If you take a look at their latest US sales figures, their October US sales are DOWN 61%. When you compare that statistic with GM (up ~5%), Ford, (up ~19%). Hyundai (up ~37%), Subaru (up ~47%), and many others that had decent sales figures, I wonder just how many so-called Smart cars they did sell last month. It certainly could not have been many.
In the European market, a sure rival to the Fiat Multipla for the uggo title would have to be the Renault Aventime.
In case you have never had the “privilege” to see one, take a look at:
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However, I still think that the Pontiac Aztek was the ugliest car ever sold in the US.
The ugliest? The toad inspired Juke, no doubt. A close second to the Cube. It looks just like my washing machine.
My vote goes to the Chrysler Sebring. There hasn’t been a more ill-proportioned car in production since the Aztek.
Absolutely, hands down #1 UGLIEST is the Tata Nano (India), 2nd is the Fiat Multipla (Italy), then you can also consider the Bolwell Nagari (Australia) and the Ssangyong Rodius (Korea).
You win, That is the ugliest car!
I love the Nissan LEAF! I don’t think it’s ugly at all. and as for the Tata Nano, I suppose they haven’t got the money to spend on styling because it’s supposed to be as cheap as possible. For me, it’s the Fiat Multipla that needs to be the ugliest car.
Another contender for the title is the Marcos Mantis, although it has not been produced for many years.
This thing was so ugly and so ill-conceived that only ~30 of them were sold before the company went out of business!
The Scion have to be the ugliest car ever built The xB looks like a box with 4 wheels
Who’d have thought that someone would take a Smart and make it uglier? This is the Queen of the Prom so far.
Oh, it’s possible.
This reminds me of one summer when I not only took the top off the Jeep, but also folded the windshield down. My girlfriend at the time thought it was cool… at first. It was like being Marlon Perkins on safari. It was almost too much when we were following a sand truck, but the last straw was when she was hit in the face by a large bug, or maybe it was a pterodactyl. She looked at me, bug guts and utter loathing on her pretty face and used the absolutely worst language I’ve ever heard… and I’m in the Army. She ended with, “Stop the f***ing car. Put the f***ing windsheld up right f***ing now.”
We also had a HMMWV in Iraq that had its windshield shot out, so we just took out all the glass and drove it that way. This was back in the early days before IED’s were a big problem. Not having a windshield is an awful idea.
Hear! Hear! At least with a Ferrari Superamerica or, say a Mercedes Benz SL65, you pay a lot of money for a beautiful car. Even a Rolls Royce or a Bentley, while not at all my cup of tea, can be appreciated for beauty of a sort. This thing is not only a repugnant concept, but hideous in appearance. It’s an ugly, ugly car.
I agree with this direction of thinking. A Cube at least has distinctive styling, but is not something I would buy. What is truly ugly is a car that’s an appliance, but is plain and ugly to boot. The best current example is the Hyundai Accent. http://accenthyundai.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/2005-hyundai-accent.jpg Even though this is a tiny car, the proportions are all wrong: the wheels are too small, the trunk is too short, it sags, and it has a gaping mouth, like it’s very low on IQ or something. It screams CHEAP!
The Nissan Cube, Scion xB, and Honda Element all get votes from me. They all look like ugly refrigerators on wheels. Whatever happened to streamlining?
The French did invent the automobile!