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World's Ugliest Vehicle Unveiled
Reaganite Republican ^
| 03 October 2015
| Reaganite Republican
Posted on 11/03/2015 9:29:26 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
While the Russians are quickly running out of money -and still can't make a decent toaster- the sky's the limit for the Kremlin when it comes to military stuff. Somehow tho there never seems to be much budget left for styling- instead, they appear to have let their video-game obsessed kids design the thing (while the dog helped).
Yet the ZIL (maker of trucks and Soviet limos) KAT is itself a microcosm of Putin's Russia... overbearing/hyper-macho, in-your-face, brutish, unpolished... not a lot of it makes sense to outsiders, yet they absolutely do not care what you think about it (or them):
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The KAT weighs 4.5 tons and can carry 10 fully-armed troops. A prototype was built last year with a Cummins 4-cylinder Diesel, but the 'production' model show here has a Russian Kamaz V-8 Diesel with 700hp. The open-wheels seem a good way to avoid interior damage from any mines ran-over, as the blast would be deflected from the floorboards/passenger compartment.
The radical angle of the front sure out to deflect enemy fire well, but not sure what the thinking is behind the bullseye-red front grill... seems as idiotic as WWI French Army uniforms with their easy-to-target red pants. And if you dropped a jar of epoxy off a bridge or out a window onto that windshield it would probably be stopped cold in its tracks...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: automotive; kamaz; russian; truck; zil
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To: Reaganite Republican; Old Sarge
Utility vehicles are usually kinda ugly. The hummer ain’t exactly a work of art when it comes to aesthetics IMO. But hey, they’re there to do a job not win a beauty contest.
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:41:45 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
To: Reaganite Republican
Ugly? I don’t mind it at all.
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:42:14 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: V_TWIN
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:44:02 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
To: Reaganite Republican
My Mom had a red AMC Pacer. Ugliest car in the world. It felt like you were driving in a fish tank. (I was beyond happy when someone slammed into the back of it!)
To: WayneS
Oh, God yes. What a pathetic vehicle. Really really really poor man’s Hummer is what I think they were going for but all they ended up with was sucktastic.
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:44:44 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: freedumb2003
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:46:18 AM PST
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: Reaganite Republican
I’m guessin’ they never saw a Datsun F-10. I owned one. Circumstance dictated at the time.
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:47:02 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: WayneS
“The Pontiac Aztec is still uglier.”
Concur
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:47:22 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
To: WayneS
The Nissan Juke is pretty ugly, too.
To: WayneS
Oh, and and that God-awful piece of frame right at eye level in the middle of the rear window. The Aztec had to be the biggest automotive Charlie Foxtrot ever. They gave me one as a rental one time, and once I saw it, I went back inside and asked if they had anything else. ANYTHING. Sad, but no. I was stuck with that POS the whole business trip.
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:48:26 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: P8riot
I am a HUGE car guy. The number of dream cars on my list is quite substantial, so I think I’m a fair judge of ugly cars.
Bathtub Caprice, anyone?
However, to this very day, the Aztec to me looks exactly and precisely like every ohter SUV ever produced in human history. I am utterly baffled how people look at it and see something other than regulary old SUV.
To: WayneS
Agree.
Ugliest ever.
Only lesbians bought it.
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:50:12 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
("The bipartisan project is to destroy conservatism" .. "Cruz is a thoroughbred conservative." - Rush)
To: WayneS
The Pontiac Aztec is still uglier.+1
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:51:13 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(I got nothin'.)
To: Reaganite Republican
As bad as the Homer-mobile.
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:52:35 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
To: Reaganite Republican
Oh, please.
Did no one else notice the "4CH" on the front grill?
This is likely a troll.
To: freedumb2003; P8riot

I dunno. Fiat's right up there, too.
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:54:56 AM PST
by
uglybiker
(nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
To: momtothree
I new a guy that had an AMC Gremlin. It broke down in a LA back-woods town. When ask if he could fix it, the gas station mechanic said, “Son, I could do more for you if you had cancer.”
To: freedumb2003

It might be called Cube, but there's hardly a straight line on it. The side windows might have come from cruise ships, the hub caps are disastrous, and the grille and headlights look like a pair of cheap sunglasses.
To: uglybiker
That’s pretty ugly.
It looks like someone lassoed it and then pulled the loop too tight.
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:58:10 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: WayneS
“Nope.
The Pontiac Aztec is still uglier.”
AGREED!
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posted on
11/03/2015 9:59:46 AM PST
by
230FMJ
(...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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