Good Lord. They couldn’t make up their mind whether to take more styling cues from the Aygo, Corolla or Yaris, so they messed up all three.
I’d have to disagree with you there. It’s a bit watery with its styling, but the Leaf isn’t an ugly car.
Seems to be the case, doesn’t it! Though its quite hard to decipher through all of the rubbish and weird lines.
I noticed the post of the Chrysler Crossfire above, I know the perfect way to vastly improve that car. Park it so the back end is obscured by a wall or something. The cars looks improve one hundred fold.
Pictures always make the Chrysler Crossfire look odd. I’ve seen a few up close, and in the orange/red color or silver color they look great to me. The Chrysler Crossfire was actually one of my childhood favorites, given I was in 4th/5th grade when it was originally released (2004).
It is a nice example of engineering, as it was stated to be super stable (aero stuff) up to 145 mph or so (if I remembered it right) [Edited, 145 not 155]
Anyway, one last tid bit on it: It was originally based on a concept car that was never intended to be mass produced… But it wowed the audience and thus was decided it needed to be produced.
Video about it. /
I’ll throw this out as one of the worst I’ve had the misfortune to see…
It was an import. With diplomat plates.
And I’m not sure if this one’s been mentioned before, but I’ve always hated them. The perfect example of the melted blob 90s designs because it went much too far with it.
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Well, at least the third generation SHO had a small V8 under the hood, I actually kind of like the styling. Not to big on the interior following the same cue though.
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Ille start with some oldies, but goodies (bad?)
Ford Pinto is up first. Not only awkward looking, but can set you on fire (literally)
1959 Buick. A love it or hate it design, that shows restraint in the wrong places when they toned down the chrome and toned up the body line shapes. I personally love it and owned 5 personally!
THE EDSEL (Fords million dollar disaster). I hate to put cars from this time period on here, but even I think they were a bad idea.
Studebaker Champion. (first redesign after the cool bullet nose). A early attempt at aerodynamics and done well, but not in a tasteful manor for the time.
BMW Isetta. Why… Just WHY?
Studebaker Avanti. To me it looks like its a European sportcar wantabe, and failed miserably at it.
AMC Gremlin. Everything that was wrong with US cars in the mid 70s!
Ford Mustang Mark II. The High spirited pony cars darkest hour!
AMC Pacer. Bad luck from the 70s rolling into the 80s
Last, but not least the Pontiac Aztek. Ultimate fail showing what design by committee can… Accomplish? (ruin)
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The first car designed using a wind tunnel for testing. The Chrysler Airflow was considerably ahead of it’s time. The styling was controversial at the time and the car was later redesigned to a more conventional look of the period, though sales were never strong for this unusual, yet forward thinking car.
The Chrysler Turbine was an impressive experiment in the use of a turbine engine rather than a normal internal combustion engine.
Many consumers were put off by the vacuum cleaner sound the car made as they were more used to the general sound of American V8s in the '60s. The engine proved durable and could run on just about anything flammable. A different start up and warming procedure was necessary as going to full throttle before the engine warmed up would cool it down rather than help it worm up faster like in a normal piston engine. Despite this you could make that mistake and not worry about damaging the engine. The only issue was when you put leaded gasoline in the tank as the deposits caused issues. For such a bold experiment the car had remarkably few breakdowns with an estimated 4% of downtime for 1.1 million test miles across the 50 cars given to the public. One of the conditions of the bailout at the start of the '80s was that Chrysler had to scrap the turbine project. I find it rather sad as who knows what further development might have yielded?
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Ahh the Airflow. Considerably outclassed in every way by the Tatra T77.
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Just putting it out there…Hotwheels made a real car
I love the Turbine, it’s surely not a bad, ugly or weird car?
Back on the subject of WBU cars…
The original Vauxhall Zafira. It looked dull, drove dull, was dull inside and most have been driven to within an inch of their lives. Though that’s not really a shame imo.
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T’was practical and less shit than a Sharan/Galaxy
What about the (not so) uber fast Vaxuhall Zafira OPC?
I called the Turbine weird in an out of the box way, not a bad one. Sadly those two represented what seems to be a bygone era when Chrysler would try something radical and new, something no one has tried before. Perhaps if this mentality still existed they wouldn’t be a branch of Fiat.
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How about the 1980 Cadillac Seville? It suffered an unfortunate amputation of its rear end
The very “unconventional” 1962 Dodge Dart
Also the terrible 1981-1987 Dodge Charger… a subcompact with an I4. I only consider it terrible because it’s got the Charger name on it.
And I’m probably going to get a lot of disagreement, but I always found this to be an ugly, blobby mess.
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At least the Shelby Charger got a turbo and some speed, that offers some redemption in my mind.
But it was still an I4 with the Charger name… and also the Shelby name. What a terrible path the American companies travelled to lower fuel economy.
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that charger looks cool but I’m weird and like 80’s stuff. man if we had those in Australia i’d have a hemi 6 in it quick smart… And you are correct names like charger, shelby, mustang, camaro should not have v6’s let alone 4’s its just not right… now give me a 4age in a carolla
Nope, couldn’t agree more. It just doesn’t look right
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