50 ugliest cars of all time - the yahoo list :)

Peter Gariepy · 2 Weeks Ago

fifty-ugliest-cars-of-the-past-50-years.html: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

Dandy Dave · 2 Weeks Ago

I think the Citroen should be on the top of the list. Then again, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, And ugly is to the bone....

Dandy Dave!

Gary Hearn · 2 Weeks Ago

I find this to be just another of the many such lists that seem to be appearing with greater frequency. Few seem to be well researched or written by anyone with knowledge of automotive history or facts. I simply ignore them and as such will not add any comments regarding their choices (though they/he/she missed most of the obvious ones).

Roger Walling · 2 Weeks Ago

Some of them may be ugly, but to put my Elcamino on the top of the list is just plain sacrilege!

Shop Rat · 2 Weeks Ago

Peter beat me to it. I was coming on here to post the link to the story. I found it by accident looking for another automotive story I had seen about buying a used car.

How funny that someone thinks they are ugly enough to write an article about, yet I know that there are folks that love these very same vehicles and bring them to shows. Someone needs to send the writer of the article some photos of those cars with their AACA winner badges on them.

Dave@Moon · 2 Weeks Ago

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09...50_years/1.htm

The link to the "50 ugliest cars of the last 50 years" is even sillier. I generally don't mind these lists. No one ever agrees with them except the person who makes them, but this one seriously appears to be picked from a dart board.

There are some cars here who's appearance I've never heard criticized. The Pinto? The Chevette? The PT Cruiser? The VW New Beetle? The Chevy SSR? (Some may be very imperfect cars, but ugly?) Even the El Camino, which is disparaged as getting uglier with every new model, seems WAY out of place on this list. Personally I find the 1968/69 El Camino to be one of Chevy's finest moments in design, and that's saying something!

Has this person ever seen a 1975 Pontiac Phoenix? A Daimler SP2500? A 1980 Dodge Aspen? A 1965 Chevy Van?

You don't even have to look beyond the very brochures these cars were in to question the choices. How in the world did a Mustang II make the list over an LTD II? A Gremlin over a 1974 Matador? The Prius over the Echo? The BRAT over anything else Subaru has EVER MADE?

Like I said I usually enjoy these lists. But if they were all this bad no one would read any of them.

DeSoto Frank · 2 Weeks Ago

I'm surprised the Pontiac "Aztek" didn' t make this list; IMHO, the "Aztek" is one of the most hideous vehicles I've seen, from ANY era...

They seemed to sell plenty ( too many?) of them though...

I rather like the Citroen "Ami" ( white car at the top of the article); it has a neat "swept-back" look... certainly more spiffy than the Renault Dauphine of the same era...

TG57Roadmaster · 2 Weeks Ago

Put the Citroen Ami 6 at the top of my list, too; thought it was butt-ugly
when I first saw one in Paris in 1970, still do...

I'd love to have one!

TG

PS, Ditto on the Aztek.

Amphicar BUYER · 2 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gary Hearn

I find this to be just another of the many such lists that seem to be appearing with greater frequency. Few seem to be well researched or written by anyone with knowledge of automotive history or facts. I simply ignore them and as such will not add any comments regarding their choices (though they/he/she missed most of the obvious ones).

How do you research opinions? Anything on a list that starts out "what do you think..." such as this would be subjective at best. So have fun with it and don't be so negative. It's just an opinion and the only opinion here that matters is not weather or not you like the subject matter, it's about what you feel is an ugly car.

Now back to our program...

I still think the Pontiac Aztec is a horribly designed car (maybe the worst of the last 20 years, IMNSHO) while the Amphicar (OK, I'm biased!) was voted as the "worst car" cover car in a book on the world's worst cars (SWEET!), and they also have been voted "ugliest" cars in several polls I've seen. I personally think they have a cuteness about them. Looking head on, they actually have a happy "face" that makes people smile.

Studebaker trucks are famous for the bed that doesn't go with the cab, toyota's newer pickups with that huge chrome grill surround are just the epitome of ugly! I don't like the canted headlights of the GM trucks either.

Dave@Moon · 2 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by DeSoto Frank

I'm surprised the Pontiac "Aztek" didn' t make this list; IMHO, the "Aztek" is one of the most hideous vehicles I've seen, from ANY era...

They seemed to sell plenty ( too many?) of them though...

Shockingly the Aztec is on the "50 Worst" list. Given some of the choices made here I'm surprised (seriously) they didn't pick the last GTO instead. It would be more in line with the (in my view warped) criteria apparently used here.