Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years

Business Week ^ | Damian Joseph

[DogByte6RER]

Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years

A Half-Century of Automotive Eyesores By Damian Joseph

Considering how many new cars are rolled out every year, it's no surprise that a few might be just plain homely. There's a chance that certain styles might become fashionable with a dash of retro hip. (Well, maybe not from the 1970s.) But for the most part, the following 50 cars will never be anything but design duds.

[Kickass Conservative]

I had a 69 El Camino. Best looking one ever built IMHO.

It was a Chevelle that could haul my Yamaha dirt bike out to the desert.

Best of both worlds...

[exDemMom]

The PT Cruiser is on the list???

I fell in love with it the first time I saw one! I love my purple PT!

Judging by how many PTs are on the road, I’m not alone in liking them.

[gargoyle]

...Bought a 70’s Dodge Dart 4 door in the early 90’s, ugly, but the slant six 225 was the best motor I ever neglected. Ahhh, I changed the oil and radiator every year, I couldn't kill it, 5 years I owned it. I gave it to my stepson, he ran it to doom in DC in 2 weeks. Name was Rita, she got me around, a great ugly car...

[GSP.FAN]

Jeez my parents drove us around in this..

[Fast Moving Angel]

Oh, man, there WERE some ugly ones in there! Aztek, Nissan Cube, Gremlin, Element ... tough to believe they started with a piece of blank paper and came up with those!!

[norge]

So where’s the Scion XB?

Is the Scion XB the stupid box Toyota built? I was sure looking for it, figuring it had to have made the list.

[BattleHymn]

I see your Challenger, and raise you a Mitsuoka Orochi:

[BradyLS]

... tough to believe they started with a piece of blank paper and came up with those!!

Would it be harder to believe if you add committees and management into the mix? :-D

[Hammerhead]

where’a the K-car?

and those godawful late 70s mustangs?

[paterfamilias]

It drove really well, but I always thought the Alfa Romeo Milano was a bit homely...

[ThomasThomas]

Businessweek doesn’t seem to much about cars but you would think they would recognize the sales record some of these cars have.

[BradyLS]

Damn. That thing looks like it’ll eat you alive!

[BradyLS]

K-Cars! My mom shoulda sued Chrysler over that lemon.

[niteowl77]

Some of these ARE pretty ugly (the Fiat Multipla makes the Powell Homer look like a Raymond Loewy effort), while others don't strike me as worse than just dull (Taurus... Sable.. my eyes are getting heavy... z-z-z-z-z...), in need of a slight makeover (the Plymouth Prowler needed a tolerable front bumper and more horsepower), or too arcane to be included (the VW Thing was a kubelwagen, for crying out loud).

A few of them (like the Lightburn Zeta or Tata Nano) are so utili-homely that they'd be sort of cool if someone with time and money to burn was willing to do pro street versions.

Mr. niteowl77

[yarddog]

Any list like this has to be a bit difficult and there are some really ugly ones in here but also a few which I think are quite attractive.

The Delorean, Ferrari, Mercury Sable, and several others are not even slightly ugly.

The forgot the wagon queen family truckster.

[beagleone]

yeah, they seem to have criticized every unusual design whatsoever as ugly. I’m sure they think the Toyota Corolla parked in their driveway is some masterpiece of design. A very weak article.

[ThomasThomas]

[dfwgator]

"You think you hate it now, wait until you drive it."

[Gil4]

Ugliest car in history. Even uglier in person than in the photo.