the "just plain ugly" car thread

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

The Challenger is one car that looks much better in pictures than in real life. (It also looked great in person... In concept form).

And it just looks BLAND in silver.

The Camaro just looks like crap.

I think they both have their appeal. To me the Challenger looks the worst out of the "retro" muscle. It looks like it's on stilts. I would rather have the Charger.

 

[Metar]

Fanboys, attack!

 

[stumpydino]

the challenger could work if it was sectioned, a lot

 

[superberkut]

The Camaro looks a bit suspect. Those recessed headlights will cause problems at speed, or reaching it, a with the rest of them. The Challenger, however, is something I can agree with, but the Charger disappointed, even as a modern design. A different nameplate would have given the sound design more credibility.

 

[tehFAO]

They should've just called the Charger the Magnum and just offered the Magnum in either sedan or wagon models. It would've worked!

But for what it's worth, I'm not too enthused about the Charger either. The more mainstream models seem really bland, almost deselet interior wise... just a desert of plastic. It just screams softy hotbox in the summer, and creaky icebox in the winter. Ugh, just not something I would particularly be too thrilled getting into after a long day's work.

Not to mention, I still can't accept how they turned it into a family sedan and tried to rectify their idiotism by slapping some 350hp Hemi in it with some obnoxious green base paint and bold "Daytona" decals slathered all over it like some oblivious dad in the middle of a rave party. So stupid and always nothing but a joke. Gotta love it when a GTO rapes a Charger Daytona, and then a Caliber SRT-4 passes them both up. LOL ;D

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

They should've just called the Charger the Magnum and just offered the Magnum in either sedan or wagon models. It would've worked!

Not a bad idea

But for what it's worth, I'm not too enthused about the Charger either. The more mainstream models seem really bland, almost deselet interior wise... just a desert of plastic. It just screams softy hotbox in the summer, and creaky icebox in the winter. Ugh, just not something I would particularly be too thrilled getting into after a long day's work.

Can't argue about the interior either

Not to mention, I still can't accept how they turned it into a family sedan and tried to rectify their idiotism by slapping some 400hp Hemi in it with some obnoxious green base paint and bold "Daytona" decals. So stupid and always nothing but a joke.

Not a fan of the Daytona treatment either

 

[Barracuda]

I think the Challenger looks great. Out of all the 'retro' designs I find it to be the best looking one. I like the Camaro, but there are things about it that just don't look good to me.

The charger, however, was a big disappointment. The front isn't too bad, but the rear just kills it. It's like whoever designed it got lazy and decided to stick a 300C/Magnum rear end on it. I also agree that decals on the charger are just ridiculous. The Daytona was a completely different car, what business does it have on a Charger, let alone a car that's a pile of crap.

What's wrong with classic styling. Designers these days have no imagination and come out with some of the dullest cars I've seen in my life. Hell, a good amount of the newer cars look like a child slapped around a lump of clay, and they just took it from there. There are no beautiful lines and curves, just lumps of utter crap.

 

[Jim Prower]

You people realize that these cars, the Challenger, especially, were developed with the same budget as a plastic Kazoo. Yeah, I think they're horrible inside, too, but let's not be too harsh.

reality, after all, is harsh enough.

 

[Tornado]

Not to mention, I still can't accept how they turned it into a family sedan and tried to rectify their idiotism by slapping some 350hp Hemi in it

Better than it was before.

 

[superberkut]

It is, er, crisp.

'Better than before' is debatable... aesthetically or mechanically? Those hadlights look suspiciously like those off a certain Hyundai.

 

[Tornado]

'Better than before' is debatable... aesthetically or mechanically?

Both.

Grr, baby.
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[superberkut]

THAT Charger! *screams*

I'll throw in a classic to that!

 

[Rotary Junkie]

At least the Pinstang was RWD...

 

[bergauk]

I could have easily picked on Lincoln just as easily. But after the Hearse. Then the Caliber, now the Nitro (which deserves it's own thread of criticism) and what I just saw was the "New" Grand Caravan. I'm sorry Dodge, but in the game of designing cars, you lose.

That picture of the Caravan is making me sick. Like motion sickness status..

 

[EA11R]

Does anyone else find themselves irritated to the core by this:

It's catastophically proportioned, and it will never be a stylish car. Ever. It's like the Mazda RX-8 in the respect that it looks like there is more than one car design in there. The difference between the two, though, is that the RX-8 is laden with beautiful Mazda cues. The Sebring, though, looks like 3 mediocre Chryslers pressed together under great pressure, with catastrophic results.

EDIT: Those are incredible pictures of the car I chose! Just take my word, it's horrid. Tops the Aztec, in my opinion.

 

[superberkut]

Like it better than this:

 

[mustangGT90210]

Like it better than this:

Fix the back and I'll like it.

 

[TopHat]

They did fix it, I think it's a good looking car now.

 

[Metar]

That picture of the Caravan is making me sick. Like motion sickness status..

They actually failed enough to forget to blur out the wheels. That really is an epic failure...

 

[Sniffs]

okay.

I've actually gone through and read this WHOLE thread.

the general concensus is
ugly=
1. oddly placed curves
2. razor straight lines.

you know what this leaves? muscle cars, early eighties for the most part, and JELLYBEANS. nobody seems to give a crap about any fifty's designs.

you forgot the mother of all ugly

58 Edsels

and may I ad the first gen Tribeca

 

[Danny]

I... wouldn't like to comment on precisely what that looks like.

 

[Tornado]

and may I ad the first gen Tribeca

Why the first gen only? They didn't fix anything with it.

 

[Jim Prower]

you forgot the mother of all ugly

58 Edsels

Not ugly.

In fact, that's about the same as most other late '50s cars: flamboyant, overdone, and HUGE appearing. There's nothing worse about that grille than, say, an Alfa-Romeo of the period, or Audi's Shield.

As for the brand itself...probably was redundant. It still makes one wonder how G.M. does it, with 50 different brands, while the other two domestics can't seem to get by with more than three.

 

[Tornado]

^Agreed. That didn't sell because it was a stupid idea, just like Imperial, Merkur and Eagle. We retroactively assume as fact that the car was ugly because it was a failure.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

That car is more like the Tribeca type of ugly, which btw I didn't really find it all that ugly.

 

[Metar]

The first-gen Tribeca was ugly enough that, when I saw one, I also saw a granny shaking it's head in disgust.

 

[bergauk]

^Agreed. That didn't sell because it was a stupid idea, just like Imperial, Merkur and Eagle. We retroactively assume as fact that the car was ugly because it was a failure.

I saw a Merkur Xrati like every day on my way home from school and I always stared at it as it drove by and wondered wtf it was. Its not too bad looking. But it seemed to fail as a company considering thats the only one I ever saw.

 

[TsukubaTrueno]

'08 Ford Focus US version

European versions looks 10x better

 

[tupacrulez]

this.....er...thing?

The KTM X-Bow

Whilst I can appreciate the direction, and the purpose, it just looks to me like someone hacked pieces of a Viper front end off, and threw them onto the framework of this...thing?

 

[Bones Brigade]