Roger Zimmermann Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 (edited) Most every of the early 1980s X cars for five. Mom & dad each had Omega sedans (ugh!). Dad's business used several more Omegas, one Skylark and an anemic Phoenix fastback. No Citations or Cimmarons. By chance, not everybody has the same opinion! To me, the first FWD X bodies were real nice; they were recognized at first glance as a US car in Europe. Unfortunately, the quality was another issue.While the Citation was an X car, the Cimaron was a J car. Edited May 14, 2015 by Roger Zimmermann (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Zimmermann Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 By chance, I will learn how to manage this new forum! Sorry for the somewhat strange posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleach Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 I think some of their current offerings are quite hideous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Sometimes GM got the trim wrong on what could otherwise have been a handsome car. Other times they got the proportions wrong- the downsized A-bodies for 78 come to mind. 78-80 Monte Carlos always looked like a pregnant cat on undersized roller skates to me. It had the "forward-thrusting" side styling the 73-77 wore so well, but on those teeny 14" wheels- too much space between tire and wheel-arch. Had that been a larger car and on 15" wheels, the effect would have been different, and that goes for all those downsized mid-size cars back then. I never liked the 80s C-body cars, again for the proportion thing. And I still don't know what they were thinking when they did the 74-76 Impala Custom/Caprice and C-body coupes. That greenhouse is heinous, with that funky B-pillar and the quarter window lower edge higher than the door glass beltline. The B-O-P 'B' coupes weren't a lot better. And other times, as in the case of Aztek, they just got it ALL wrong. The modern "performance" stuff leaves much to be desired in styling too- the overall look is too heavy and clunky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 GM needs another Bill Mitchell! He gave us some fantastic designs from 1927, and reached his prime in the mid-sixties. Maybe partly because of Federal regulations, his career went downhill in the seventies; his final styling effort being the razorback '80-'85 Cadillac Seville. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 GM needs another Bill Mitchell! He gave us some fantastic designs from 1927, and reached his prime in the mid-sixties. Maybe partly because of Federal regulations, his career went downhill in the seventies; his final styling effort being the razorback '80-'85 Cadillac Seville. Craig Mitchell didn't get to Harley Earl's art and color until 1935. In 1927 Mitchell was only 15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 I think any time we want to discuss "ugliest car" we should automatically disqualify the Aztek. It's always going to win that particular, er, beauty contest. So what's the second-ugliest GM car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39BuickEight Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Lumina APV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleach Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 APV, appallingly pathetic vehicle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 OK, it's the Aztec. But take another look at the 42 Oldsmobile front end. Looks like some of the characters in the cartoon movie "Cars". Could be a magnet for younger folks to join us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 I had an Aztec as a rental once, well almost. Didn't even make it off the airport property. Was raining and you could not see anything out the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 GM needs another Bill Mitchell! He gave us some fantastic designs from 1927, and reached his prime in the mid-sixties. Maybe partly because of Federal regulations, his career went downhill in the seventies; his final styling effort being the razorback '80-'85 Cadillac Seville. Craig Which is why we have still have so many ugly and uncomfortable cars today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScarredKnightfan Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Which is why we have still have so many ugly and uncomfortable cars today! You beat me to it ... exactly what I was thinking. Cort www.oldcarsstronghearts.com1979 & 1989 Caprice Classics | pigValve, paceMaker, cowValve"Just a little insight won't make this right" __ All-American Rejects __ 'It Ends Tonight' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Which is why we have still have so many ugly and uncomfortable cars today!Hence my previous comment about shopping for a seventies car in Australia. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Mitchell didn't get to Harley Earl's art and color until 1935. In 1927 Mitchell was only 15.Right!! Harley Earl opened the Art & Colour Studio in 1927, and Mitchell started a few years later. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Which is why we have still have so many ugly and uncomfortable cars today! It's because computers are designing most! Real people couldn't possibly be doing some of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle_Buck Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 (edited) The hideous GM H3 Hummer - don't know if it is a car, truck, SUV or some other mad-monk automotive alphabet designation. And it may not be the ugliest, but makes my top 5 ugly GM products. Somewhat cartoon like as it turned out since it has little of the capability it pretends to have.Ingress and egress is torture, then there are those tank slit windows. Rides like a cement mixer and about as noisy.Out of the GM lineup today. Truly a mercy killing. Edited May 15, 2015 by Uncle_Buck (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 My wife saw this thing on TV and said, "It looks like a 1-person car." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 My wife saw this thing on TV and said, "It looks like a 1-person car." Speaking of 'one man' cabs, has anyone ever seen a GMC steel-hauler truck with a one-man cab like this Sterling and International? http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/showthread.php?51181-Orphan-of-the-Day-05-11-1941-Sterling-Steel-Hauler&highlight=STERLINg+steel Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleach Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 At least you could carry other things with trucks like that. Those so called "smart cars" aren't very smart if all you can do is ride it in without any possibility of making the trip purposeful.Those things are really hard on the eyes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39BuickEight Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 I think these are worse than the Aztek: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CA/20080914/OEM02/309149897/V5/0/V5-309149897.jpg&MaxW=700&cci_ts=20080911214534 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 I think these are worse than the Aztek: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CA/20080914/OEM02/309149897/V5/0/V5-309149897.jpg&MaxW=700&cci_ts=20080911214534 Looks like an ant eater! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 The thing with the Aztek is that GM did everything right then did everything wrong. The 1999 Aztek show vehicle looked AWESOME. A right-sized 4x4 with a pretty tough look and a lot of innovative features. Car show attendees loved it and clamored for GM to build it. GM, finally listening to public opinion, DID build it. Unfortunately, to make it economically feasible, they had to engineer it on an existing platform (something show cars don't have to worry about). That platform? The same minivan platform of the aforementioned Lumina APV. So they went from having a rugged-looking, go-anywhere SUV to having a weird-looking minivan thingy that nobody could love. Great intentions, lousy results, typical GM. It's still ugly, it still deserves to be maligned, but the reason it exists at all is because the original looked fantastic. What a drag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 I often wonder why they used one in Breaking Bad. Walter White seemed to like his. Even his mechanic wanted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 (edited) I think it was to portray Walter as a typical, schlub. He never made a good choice in his life, though he tried. He sold his part of the business for pennies, he ended up a teacher in a mediocre school, he decided to cook meth, he ended up killing people, he ruined his life, his marriage, his relationship with his son, his tenuous friendship with Jesse.Of course he owned an Aztek. Viewers wouldn't have recognized a Daewoo or a Sterling Edited May 15, 2015 by CarlLaFong (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander160 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 (edited) I'd like to throw the Avalanche truck in there too. Body by LEGO along with a few other models. And that recent era of Cadillac's mid-size car where they bragged about their "folded paper design". Some of those belong right next to the trophy they give to all the kids on a team regardless of accomplishments. Sometimes I believe that those who decide such stuff, regardless of the manufacturer, intend to prove that they can make anyone buy anything. Scion anyone? How about those Honda SUVs with the different colored parts on the outside? Then those other Asian imports with white roofs, black fenders, colored body, what the heck were they smoking? All in all there were several 1942 models that were lucky to see such limited production. At least by 46-47 they figured some of it out, and not just "The General". Edited May 15, 2015 by Highlander160 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drwatson Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Have the Federally mandated bumpers of mid to late 70's been mentioned? Granted, no fault of GM & other mfgrs, but ugly is ugly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Looks like an ant eater!The first generation U-body vans are called the 'Dustbuster'. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Have the Federally mandated bumpers of mid to late 70's been mentioned? Granted, no fault of GM & other mfgrs, but ugly is ugly!Yep, my post in #34. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleach Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 The first generation U-body vans are called the 'Dustbuster'. CraigEarly Chevy Astros were known as "bread boxes". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avgwarhawk Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 The toaster on wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Wonder what the cars will look like when the body piercing, nose ring and tattoos generation gets their chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Wonder what the cars will look like when the body piercing, nose ring and tattoos generation gets their chance.See the post right above yours. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 This one should have been called the Puke,not Juke. This is the most hedious thing I've ever laid eyes on!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Continental Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Granted the grill is way too busy, but I do like the color coded feature. I haven't seen anyone try to clean up an existing 42 grill, but a 46-48 looks great and can easily be added without a double take. It's not like most of the ugly 80s on up vehicles can simply be cleaned up with just changing the front. I'm not a huge fan of the general 60s Olds headlight and grill layouts either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 This one should have been called the Puke,not Juke. This is the most hedious thing I've ever laid eyes on!!!!Then I guess you've never seen one of these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Then I guess you've never seen one of these It's far better looking than the Puke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleach Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 It's far better looking than the Puke Ditto, it's way better looking than the Puke. It's so ugly that it's actually cute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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