Ugliest Car Interior

[Sage]

Haha. It was a driver's ed. car. In Mass you get an insurance discount if you take a driver education class, so it was well worth the $180.

Ah, right, driver’s ed. I had the very (though not nearly as) unfortunate experience of driving a Toyota Echo for my driver’s training (in CA, you have to take three sessions of driver’s training).

That thing was awful – the interior smelled of cheap plastic, the center-mounted pod was about about as brilliant of an idea as dehydrated water, and the steering wheel and pedals made me feel like I was playing a poorly-developed sim. I wanted to crash that thing so badly just to rid it of its existance.

 

[exigeracer]

I drove a 2004 Sentra with about 15,000 miles on it for driver's ed... Nothing special.

 

[G.T]

I don't think I'm the only one, but I absolutely hate the new Civic's interor. Material quality seemed to have taken a nosedive, as even the plastics in my '96 Jetta seem to be of higher quality. More than anything, I hate the guages, and even worse is the placement of the emergency brake handle.

No way! I find the new Civic's interior awesome! Them dials, the steering wheel, the buttons, everything!

The thing is, I've never seen it for myself, so I can't comment on it too much.

There is a type of interior I hate though. Dials set in the middle, and even worse, in this case, the buttons are mounted away from the dash a little in this Nissan Primera. In fact, I find the whole interior very weird...

 

[Master_Yoda]

Subaru B9 Tribeca:

It looks like it's wearing a thong.

I love that! That's awsome, it's like your in Star Track....

And i love the Civic also, love that purple!

 

[FAOLIU05]

As much as I love the Corvette, it's interior just doesn't seem quite up to par compared to what's available for $40,000.

 

[Niels]

It may look nice, but it's freakin' uncomfortable and very non-user-friendly. The buttons aren't labeled and you have to press eveyr button to find out what it does. Plus, it all seems made in China. We rented it (it's a Renault Megane, by the by) and turning the A/C wheel thingie, it came off.

This interior is soo gray that I already feel like I'm 50 years old so....I dont think you can call it nice then. Actually, it's DISCUSTING and that interior would make me SICK. Honestly it's just soo fugly.

 

[davygravy]

Have you noticed that every car in this thread is American and are built by GM. Theres only a few European and Japanese cars.

How about Korea, i bet theres some really horrible iteriors out there.

 

[Ev0]

Have you noticed that every car in this thread is American and are built by GM. Theres only a few European and Japanese cars.

How about Korea, i bet theres some really horrible iteriors out there.

Koreans suck at interior design; they have no concept of using colors other than grey. Ladies and gentlemen, the Hyundai Santa Fe.

More grey than a rainy day. But at least the car has lots of redeeming features. The same can't be said about this...

The Kia Rio. This is the best picture I could find of the car's interior. I rode in one once when I was visiting one of my friends who's family owns one... what an awful car.

And skip, were the seats in the Sunfire absolutely dreadful? I've heard horror stories about Sunfire/Cavalier seats, and I want to know if they are as horrific as they've been made out to be.

 

[Omnis]

Actually, the Tribeca isn't bad once you get use to it, everything is right where you need it and easily accessable.

The Ion has a terrible interior:

The Grand Am is probably the worst I have to drive every now and then. And to top the horrible look, poor materials, and terrible quality, they ALL have a wet-dog smell that is incureable and also plagues the Alero.

I also thought that the 1st gen Eclipse/Talon interior was poorly planned. The materials were ok though.

LMAO! THAT INTERIOR! Hahahaha. Wow, man. That's horrible.

The Tribeca has a very nice interior, by the way. I like it a lot.

 

[Slick Rick]

There is a type of interior I hate though. Dials set in the middle, and even worse, in this case, the buttons are mounted away from the dash a little in this Nissan Primera. In fact, I find the whole interior very weird...

My Dads got a Primera. I thought it was a bit weird too but after a while you get used to it. I think the dash is laid out that way so the car can be switched from right hand drive to left easier saving the manufacturer time and money. Its also pretty cool watching the dials move while someone else is driving...

 

[Carl.]

I think this is worse, from Nissan:

 

[skip0110]

I think this is worse, from Nissan:

(Images)

Is that a Quest? It certainly is an odd design.

 

[Carl.]

Yep, goes well with the ugly outside. Add that to its premium pricing, and you have a nice dealer lot hugger.

The only redeeming feature was the cool sunroof layout.

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

@Carl - I was going to say something else, but after seeing your pictures, whatever Nissan that is, it gets my vote.

 

[YSSMAN]

A few oddities I've dug up from the grave:

Buick Reatta:

Mitsubishi Endeavor:

Suzuki Aerio:

***A quick note about the Buick Reatta. Although the design of the car may come into question, the car was WAY ahead of it's time. Notice the computer screen? Yeah, it had a driver information center long before all of the age of i-Drive and MMI. It could be used to adjust the adaptable suspension (yeah, GM had it first), adujust other aspects of the car, and give inforamtion about how the car was running. Mind you, this was the late 1980s, so when people say that GM doesnt do enough to push the business forward, they forget that a lot of stuff we take for granted today came from GM back then.

 

[Diego440]

Mind you, this was the late 1980s, so when people say that GM doesnt do enough to push the business forward, they forget that a lot of stuff we take for granted today came from GM back then.

Just a side note. Mid-80s Ford Sierras also had similar screens with information and such. You couldn't adjust the suspension, but you could adjust many gasoline/air mixtures and such...

Still, the Endeavor and the Aerio are indeed hideous

 

[skip0110]

***A quick note about the Buick Reatta. Although the design of the car may come into question, the car was WAY ahead of it's time. Notice the computer screen? Yeah, it had a driver information center long before all of the age of i-Drive and MMI. It could be used to adjust the adaptable suspension (yeah, GM had it first), adujust other aspects of the car, and give inforamtion about how the car was running. Mind you, this was the late 1980s, so when people say that GM doesnt do enough to push the business forward, they forget that a lot of stuff we take for granted today came from GM back then.

They used the same info screen in the big Buick station wagons, the Electra Estate and LeSabre Estate.

And I wouldn't call that Reatta interior ugly, it was pretty much on-par for interiors of the day.

 

[Wolfe]

Dodge Shadow.

This particular example also happens to be a horrible red...




Sure, sure, 80's boxiness...but this is an '88-'94 car, and the interior ran unchanged...it's also much more bland and brutishly ugly than many cars of the 80's, and its boxiness is above-average.

Some of the models came complete with a tachometer-sized fuel gauge in the gauge cluster. This replaced the tachometer, of course, even on the manual-transmission-equipped models, and didn't make the gauge cluster seem any less empty. Another couple of neat features are the two-button on/off rear defroster switch (obviously, engineering a single, click-in click-out button cost too much), and the useless cubby space above it. Also, poor design and the fact that the car is actually a hatchback lead to blind spots the size of jupiter.

 

[YSSMAN]

...BTW: What was it about Red interiors in the 1980s? I've seen so many cars from the US, Europe, and Japan with red interiors, it makes me sick. I remember my Mom driving a black 1988 Mazda 626 with a red interior, what a horrible look.

My Dad's '68 Camaro has a blue interior, but back then it looked good to have a matching interior with the exterior (his Camaro is LeMans Blue). My uncle's '69 Chevelle is what I like to call "pea soup green" and has a matching green/houndstooth interior, and that doesnt look bad either...

I guess it depends on the car...

 

[MazKid]

...BTW: What was it about Red interiors in the 1980s? I've seen so many cars from the US, Europe, and Japan with red interiors, it makes me sick. I remember my Mom driving a black 1988 Mazda 626 with a red interior, what a horrible look.

I'm probably wrong but I don't recall red being an option for a black 626...

Anyway, yeah, the '88-'92 MX-6/626 red interior was terrible, but the grey interior was excellent. Red just sucks for an interior color. I'm not to fond of blue either.

 

[YSSMAN]

Maybe the car wassent black, maybe it was a darker silver or something. I would have been four at the time when we had it (about 1990-1991), after my Mom bought it from my Grandmother while Dad's Caprice was about to be retired, the '78 Chevy 1500 on it's way out, and my Dad buying that stupid '89 Mustang GT. It was a troublesome time, so I don't really like to remember everything.

...Although, its funny thinking back to a time when phones were still attached to the wall, a cell phone was a joke, and the who world was pretty much without the internet. My my, how things have changed in 15 years.

 

[Pupik]

The Aston Martin from the 80's:the lagonda
it was one of the worst ideas ever

Game, set, and match. It doesn't look the slightest bit user-friendly, but I suppose ugly is as ugly does (see the same car's exterior).

> http://freespace.virgin.net/roger.ivett/info.html

...BTW: What was it about Red interiors in the 1980s? I've seen so many cars from the US, Europe, and Japan with red interiors, it makes me sick.

It looks like a womb from the inside; I call that color "Disembowelment" whenever I see it. (Heck, even a few 1990 LS 400s had it as an option choice.)

Somehow, that color between burgundy and pink has suddenly become a trendy, and ugly, metallic exterior paint choice for nearly every automaker.

They used the same info screen in the big Buick station wagons, the Electra Estate and LeSabre Estate.

And I wouldn't call that Reatta interior ugly, it was pretty much on-par for interiors of the day.

Not to mention, that brave, but unpopular CRT screen would change the face of interiors to this day! It took the other luxury marques about 8-10 years to try it again (but with navigation).

 

[Slicks]

Horrible. Look at that giant shelf on the dash.

 

[BMWteamPTG]

theyre all pretty bad...that shelf, if that in a taurus??? early 90's model?

 

[Poverty]

Ewwwwww that lagonda is by far the worst. Shows off the british engineering

 

[Slicks]

Nah, that's a Ford Probe... Late 80's/Early 90/s.

This is an early 90's Taurus (Very similar, actually).

 

[Master_Yoda]

Horrible. Look at that giant shelf on the dash.

Thats what dashes were use for, a shelf like thing. My dad had one similar in his old Honda Accord, but i look sooo much nicer.

 

[benzoboy]

Daewoo (Sorry, Chevrolet) Matiz

Nissan Navara

 

[Duke]

Have you noticed that every car in this thread is American and are built by GM. Theres only a few European and Japanese cars.

Every Japanese car made between 1978 and 1992 had the ugliest interior evAr. Not only the designs were miserable, but the color selections were just awful. It's like all Japanese designers from that time period lived in airport concourse waiting areas, or something.

[edit] All the cars with the center gauges at the top of the stack make me feel like I'm in the fire truck on the kiddie merry-go-round at the carnival. It's like every seat should get a fake steering wheel in front of it so we can all pretend we're driving while we push the big yellow horn buzzer.

 

[benzoboy]

Don't get me wrong, the EVO 8 is a great car, but...

Apart from the odometer it's not very practical