Look, it's difficult to design a car.
You gotta get the engine, gearbox, suspension, transmission and all that jazz into one neat
little package, and you better hope that you get it right.
But, arguably the most important thing to get right when designing a car is the body-
if you got an ugly car people aren’t gonna bite.
The average consumer won’t care about your car if they look at the outside and see its
a pile of crap..
Today, I’m going to give you my top ten worst looking cars of all time.
Now bear in mind, this list is about the ugly part of cars.
These vehicles may be one of the best things ever built under the hood, but that's what
we’re talking about today- if it's ugly, then it's ugly.
No exceptions.
Plus, this is my personal opinion, so if your favourite car appears on this list, then great.
You have a sense of individuality, an opinion.
Although I will not respect that opinion considering what cars are on this list.
Anyway, let’s get started.
France is a nice country, I’ve been a few times, the food's nice, it's got a nice landscape,
but it tends to be hit or miss when it comes to car designs.
Citroen especially, while you’ve got really good looking cars like the ds3 and the xm,
there’s some flops too, like the tcv.
WOrst, in my mind, is the BX.
What?
I mean, it's not that bad.
It does look quite old fashioned, sure, and the rear fenders over the wheel is pretty
awful, but it looks aesthetically pleasing overall.
What’s wrong with it?
Ah, well, I didn;t even let myself finish my own sentence.
Specifically, I’m referring to the Citroen BX4TC.
It may seem unfair to put such a specific model on the list, but I can’t excuse it.
It probably doesn’t look that awful on its own, but when placed with its group b peers,
like the quattro or the 205, you can really see how citroen’s design department might
have gone a bit loopy.
What is with that front end?
It is so long!!
Which is a phrase I hear quite often surprisingly.
Other than that, the wheels are ugly, the square fenders are back, and overall, it just
doesn’t seem to… fit.
It's like they went to get a load of scrap metal pieces, bend them into shape and glue
them together in the shape of a car.
It doesn’t look… finished.
Sure, there’s worse out there, but with the amazingly cool designs of rally cars from
the 80’s, the bx4tc is quite the letdown.
The seventies was a weird time for car designs.
Companies were trying to outdo each other in how spectacular, and large and elegant
their cars were.
And then there’s Amc.
The Pacer.
I mean… what the fuck happened here.
The first thing you may notice is the abundant amount of glass.
Apparently, 37% of the pacer’s body was composed entirely of glass.
We got a bit of a wrap around sorta thing going on here.
And it's awful.
Then there’s the overall size.
It looks like a little suburban car on the surface, but when you look at the fron you
realise, hang on… why is it so wide?
The pacer was actually marketed as the world’s first small-wide car.
That then also means the headlights, already bug-like, just look terrifying, and..
Can we just stop looking at that picture?
Ah that’s better.
I mean, I can respect what it is, 70’s american cars were all about size and power and no
care was given to the gas guzzling.
The Pacer was quite small and nimble, but also uniquely ugly.
Sorry pacer, but you appeared in cars 2, and that is an unforgivable offense.
You know, Nissan makes some great cars, the GTR for one, the Quashqai, the 370z, heck
I’d even say the Micra has an essence of greatness.
But lord help you if you think the Juke fits into the same category of those cars.
This thing is hideous.
Now this isn’t me bashing on the juke itself, it may be a fine car, but if I see a nice
expensive bottle of wine, but someone taken a shit on it?
I ain’t buying thank you very much.
Funnily enough, though, the Juke has just entered its second generation, which I feel
does look… okay.
At least it looks miles better than its older brother, the first generation.
It's odd, unlike other cars on this list, I can’t quite put my finger on why the design
doesn;t work.
Is it the headlights?
The strange profile?
I don’t know, is it a combination of a load of things?
probably.
It may seem hypocritical putting a car on the list when I can’t even specify its flaws,
but you can just glance at this thing and you suddenly become very depressed, at least
I do.
For example, every time I have to drive through town I have to go past a Nissan dealership,
and there they are, propped up for all to see, an army, no, a gang of jukes.
Get out of the way.
God.
Imagine being an automobile company, and to many, the only thing you’re known for, is
one ugly little duckling of a car.
Enter stage left, the Saturn SC.
Yeah, I had never heard of the Saturn company before last week, but considering the company
ceased operations all the way back in 2010 I guess it's forgivable.
But that DESIGN man, what the hell!?
I imagine the designers went through something like this, so they got a model of a car, here’s
a land rover discovery, and they tried to mould it into different shapes, and the best
that they could come up with was forcing it inside a cheese grater, until the body became
very pointy and narrow at the front, and yeah, the sc was born.
I think the reason I dislike this car so much is because it is so nearly normal.
You look at the back, and yeah, that looks kinda cool, the side profile too, looks pretty
standard.
Let's have a look at the fro- OH MY GOD.
It's like they had a limit on how much space they could use to fit all the front parts
on, when they clearly could have used a lot more.
Just… those headlights man… those headlights.
You ever seen the graphic tiling glitch on windows when you can drag a window and have
it repeat, leaving a trail?
Well, that’s what the front of the Pontiac Aztec looks like.
I despise this thing.
It may not be the ugliest on the list, I mean it's only at number 6, but just looking at
it makes me really angry.
How could these so called “designers” see this and call it a finished product?
Its blasphemy!
I mean, where to start?
I guess with the lights because they’re at the front, they’re shaped incredibly
weirdly and the spacing just looks off.
There’s absolutely no need for this second, grille thing above the bottom larger one,
its disgusting.
The much loved square wheel arches from the bx4tc has made a return, except now they think
its normal to put them on the front too, but nothing can compare to the rear.
The Toyota Prius’ rear end looks bad enough already in my opinion, its way too flat and
tall.
But Pontiac decided to extend those features to make the rear of the aztec even more tall
and even more flat.
We can probably refurnish the inside of this thing and call it a tower block.
The profile is probably the worst thing I’ve ever seen.
Do I even need to say anything more?
s.
ANd yes, Walter White did drive an Aztec in breaking bad, but that gives this car no brownie
points.
I’ve never watched the show and knowing now that this thing is in it?
The chances of me sitting down and binging it are hanging on by a thread.
Aston Martin Lagonda Shooting Brake.
Aston Martin is probably the first name that comes to mind for many when the words “elegant”
and “beautiful” are mixed with “car” but even these guys aren’t always perfect.
ENter, the Aston Martin Lagonda.
Ever looked at a piece of pecorino cheese?
Well, you can see where the Lagonda found its roots.
It's just too… long.
I mean if they just did..
Aha.. hmm… yeah!
That looks way better!
Its kinda like the BX4TC, but they did it to the back too.
It is kinda forgivable because this seemed to be a trend for a lot of car makers in the
seventies, but Aston Martin just went a liiiittle too far.
But that’s not the problem.
Even the recently revealed Lagonda successor, which just makes me feel sick just by looking
at it, cannot compare to the monstrosity that is the shooting break.
A shooting brake is basically when a car is a combination of the estate style and the
coupe style.
Basically, they added another compartment to the back of the car and didn’t think
much else of it.
While it was a special variant and only one was made, I felt this thing had to appear
on the list, it is so awful.
Even stranger is the fact that the shooting break lagonda was created in 1998, over 8
years since the lagonda stopped production, created by a swiss company called roos engineering.
Look, shooting breaks aren’t the nicest cars to look at, but pair that concept with
a car that already looks pretty hideous, and a monster you have created.
Sorry switzerland, but you done goofed.
Remember how I talked about companies that I’d never heard of, but recently heard of
because of a particularly ugly car they made?
Well, here is the Scion XB.
Turns out Scion was actually a part of Toyota.
And the marque was set up specifically to appeal to a “youth” market.
Well, looks like that didn;t work out either as the brand went bust 3 years ago.
But, honestly?
I don't know many youths who would be attracted to the xb.
I can see why some people might think it's trendy or whatever, but I can’t help just
looking at this thing and retching ever so slightly in my throat.
Box cars don’t always equate to ugly cars, there are quite a few out there which I kinda
like, but the XB is not one of them.
They try to rectify the design with the second model, but you can’t really do too much
to this thing without completely altering the entire design, so it still looks kinda
hideous.
Look, the PT Cruiser is only at number 3 on the list, but I don’t think there’s a
car I hate more than this thing.
I’m not the biggest fan of Chrysler in the first place, nothing against them, they’re
just not my type of cars, but good god the pt cruiser is truly awful.
As one person rightfully put it, the PT Cruiser is the seamless bonding of a hearse and a
large air conditioning unit.
Or as someone else said, the PT cruiser is the automobile equivalent of a mullet.
I can maybe see what they were trying to go for, as apparently it's meant to invoke the
1930s, but sometimes what works on paper will NOT work in practise.
And you know what?
This probably didn’t work on paper either but Chrysler said fuck it and went through
with it anyway.
Where do I start?
Well, the rear is completely hideous.
As well as looking like an actual bug, the rear visibility was supposedly awful too,
so not only would it burn your retinas with its ugliness, it would also paralyse you when
you tried to change lanes and didn;t see the 18 wheel out your back window.
The profile is generally one of the worst things ever made, and the front, well, the
front is simply iconic.
Actually, no infamous is probably a better word.
I don’t like laughing at other people’s misfortune, but the cruiser only managed 1.35
million sales in its 10 year lifespan, so it seems almost everyone else felt the same
way i did.
Sorry, Chrysler, but you reap what you sow.
The Juke was awful.
We can all agree, but it did have some stylistic benefits, and it was probably a good car overall.
The Cube, on the other hand, is not.
The XB really ran with the box car concept, but the Cube just isn’t a box car.
It's a box.
A literal box with some wheels glued to the bottom.
Aesthetically, I honestly think there are any positives.
I mean, the first gen actually looked quite good, in my opinion.
Not my first choice, but hey it looked fine, so why change it so drastically, and why make
it so much worse?
First off, we’ve gotta talk about the ghastly bumper, which just shouldn’t exist, the
windows look like portholes from a icelandic fishing trawler, the lights look ridiculous,
the wheels are weird and did I mention it looks like a box?
No?
Well it does.
A soggy, wet mouldy cardboard box.
Plus, if there was a rear-end collision, a high amount of fuel would supposedly pour
out, which, as you can probably guess, isn’t too safe.
In the trash it goes.
So how do you make the ugliest car of ALL TIME??
And I say all time, because this car is objectively the worst thing put on four wheels in human
history.
Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Fiat Multipla.
What the fuck were they thinking over at Fiat when they came up with this monstrosity?
It looks like something you’d use as a battle ram to break down the castle gates.
In fact, I hear the way they built this thing was by taking a Nissan cube, sawing off the
roof and windows and sticking the top of a bubble car on the body.
Technically, yes this car is good.
It's seen as one of the best family cars you could get for a long time, but that's the
thing- you don't want to see this car IT'S AN EYESORE.
I’m sorry, I like fiat y’know?
Just a relatively normal company until 1998 when the big wigs thought this was a good
idea??
Thankfully, we only had to bear this beast for six years, as in 2004 the car got a facelift.While
it isn’t perfect, I mean YUCK- it's leagues better than this thing.
It's also got an odd seating arrangement, with three in the front as opposed to the
normal two.
I could go on, I could talk about the fat bumper, the ugly wing mirrors, the disgusting
lights, but to be quite frank with you, I really can’t be bothered.
In short, it's kinda like fiat bought a nissan cube and then bought a bmw isetta.
Saw the roof of the cube, take the bottom half off the isetta, stick them together and
boom, you just evolved into the multipla.
Sorry Fiat, you didn’t drop the ball on this one, you dropped a fucking rock.