Posted on 07/24/2010 7:58:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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.)
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I just had a Buick Century like the pic on top. One of my favorite cars. I drove it to death so I traded it in last week.
Scouts out! Cavalry Ho!
This list is bogus , however from those cited I’ll take a Delorean !
I had one of those Valiants a few years ago. It was in someone’s back yard. They sold it to me for $150. Ugly and deteriorating, but drivable. Was going to restore, but engine threw rod.
It was a fast and smooth running car considering when it was produced. What was it, a 318 V8? It was also way too light in the rear. Not a snow car. Very easy to switch ends with it panic braking on dry pavement, and forget flooring it coming out of the carwash, which was how it was eventually totaled.
They were really just an AMC Hornet with the trunk hacked off, seriously. Ford Pinto was the same thing, a Maverick with the trunk hacked off. They were caught flatfooted by demand for small cars, and that was the ad hoc solution at the time.
I can’t remember the name of the ugliest car I ever saw. It was an oldsmobile(i think) circa 1980. Basically looked like a full size sedan that had been converted into a hatchback. Might have been a pontiac. Similar to the early eighties cadillac seville, but way way uglier.
Yeah a Tribeca. I think most were sold to rental companies.
GM tried to do that “fastback” thing to all their midsize sedans in the late seventies. Could’ve been an Olds Cutlass, a Buick Century ... can’t remember if Chevy did it with the Malibu. It only lasted one model year, a huge bomb. Same car with a near-vertical rear window and a standard trunk replaced it.
I drive a Subaru Forester, and it has the terrorist hunting permit, the Bush “Miss Me Yet” sticker, and a Tom Emmer sticker (Gov candidate for Minnesota). And the libtards here in Minnesota try to run me off the road while giving the “bird”. Of course I get the line from the MN cops that they are just “exercising their right of political free speech” and are expressing disagreement with my stickers (typical useless MN cops). Maybe I should get TX plates and add a sticker “keep honking, I’m reloading”.
I cannot kill the car however, at over 9 years and 180k miles. I also am able to get to field service calls regardless of the weather.
The pacer is the best touring car ever. It was like sitting in the dome car on a train. I took a trip down PCH in one of them.
To each his own. The DS was a helluva car, very technically advanced. I like them.
Yeah, that thing would make my list, if I'd ever actually seen one.
I liked the Chevy Monza too ... but had to replace the Clutch more often than the spark plugs.
I meant to say “Except for Fred Hayek”. :)
Some of those are just plain stupid choices. The author must be “confused”.
The Maverick was a Ford product. It was like riding in a tin box lined with cardboard.
Try and find a pic of one on the internet. I tried for ten straight minutes. Bupkis.
The one I’m remembering was a dark brown olds with the trunklid and the rear window in the same 45degree plane.
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