The 65 Stang is a work of art, that doesn’t mean the stang II is totally ugly. It is acceptable. I mean people actually bought gremlins. We called them moonliners.
The duration of a brand is its judge. The Mustang II ran for four years, since it was one car disguised as another. Those that deliberately go for subcompacts such as the Gremlin aren’t looks-conscious, otherwise the original Toyota Corolla wouldn’t have gotten off the ground and the Gremlin wouldn’t have had an eight-year run (and AFAICS, the second-generation Corolla had a very large influence on the looks of US subcompacts).