the "just plain ugly" car thread
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That's funny, because most of your list there seem pretty soulless to me. Great cars one and all, but fairly unspectacular designs (RX7 aside, if you're referring to the FD which is a beautiful vehicle) with typically cheap and plasticy 1990s Japanese interiors.
I actually really like the C6. It's incredibly elegant and has some great details too.
It's also a genuinely good car. I don't recall ever reading a bad review of one.
Are they actually ugly though or just dull?
No, I don't think the cars are ugly, boring? yes. ugly? not really. (unless you call a dull car ugly 
)Their new addition like the Alza isn't that bad of a looker.
The Alza is simply dull bordering on 'ok' as it is a budget car, bang for money type. I'll give them that. Though some older Peroduas I've encountered had too cheap a design and made some Sportages or Accents look in comparison like premium cars.
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Here during that time, the Sportage and Accent are way more expensive than these Peroduas. They're incomparable. I don't know the case of it in the UK or any other country but they are definitely - sort of like a budget car as a starter. My dad used to drive one, they're economical, easy to drive and isn't that hard to maintain either. They're just dull, not ugly.
I understand what you mean about the design, they are not the best, but in my honest opinion, certainly better than today.
I actually got to ride an R33 GT-R last summer. It was amazing, certainly a fun car to be sat in. I saw something on the TV about the CR-X being one of the most "fun cars ever". I'm thinking of getting one in 5 years when I can take my driving test.
I feel these cars have soul, maybe not much on the outside, but the inside.
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Saw one the other day, made me kind of sad to see where toyota is going. Then saw this:
And everything was alright
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http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...://www.dautobuzz.com/search/nissan-juke-2011&
Nissan Juke...GOD this thing is ugly
Nissan Juke...GOD this thing is ugly
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I kinda like it...
And I wanna do this to it:
They should have placed the headlights where the lower foglights are the Juke could have turned out to be one cool car.
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That's just it, its trying too hard to be like the original. It also loses points for being a F430 kit car(which is my favorite car).
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'Trying to be like the original' doesn't make it ugly, quite the opposite in this instance. Is the Ford GT ugly, just because it looks like the original?
Calling it a '430 kit car' is rather dismissive to the the people who created it, it is a very thoroughly engineered car. It has 20bhp more than the Scuderia on which it is based, it has 330mm taken from the chassis to match the proportions of the original, and through very fastidious weight reductions over the already lightweight donor car, it weighs 80kg less. They have also engineered a bespoke ABS system for the Ferrari's ceramic discs, and have replaced the E-Gear diff with a more traditional LSD that trims 20kg from the car's weight.
Clearly looks are a subjective thing, but to my eyes it looks far more toned, better proportioned, and more aggressive than the car on which it is based.
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Not to mention that the F430 is probably the least attractive of all the Ferrari V8s ever so giving it a different body is an immediate improvement. A lot of the details on the F430 look like afterthoughts, like they took a 360 and stuck a load of pseudo-Enzo bits on it to bring it in line with their then-current design language.
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I have to disagree with you. Although the cars you mentioned are great, they do not really have any appeal (to me). Take for example the supra and RX7. Sure they are nice, but they are kind of "flat" with no curves or cuts, are they not?
I like most of the newer cars. There are a great number however that are.......ugly. I for one, cannot stand the sight of a mustang.
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I agree with the idea that cars are getting progressively uglier as time goes on, but there are exceptions; I love the look of the E60 BMW M5. But older cars look better in my opinion.
And as for cars with 'souls'? I'm a wholly unspiritual man, but Jeremy Clarkson is right; Lancias and Alfas have a certain energy and aura about them that makes them that bit more special.
And as for cars with 'souls'? I'm a wholly unspiritual man, but Jeremy Clarkson is right; Lancias and Alfas have a certain energy and aura about them that makes them that bit more special.
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The right price? You couldn't pay me to drive that!
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Congrats u just brought back a 2 year old dead thread lol and I would never drive that thing.
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Why would he create a new thread if a perfectly fine old one exists and it stills works fine?
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