1958 BMW 600

Some more contenders:

1770 Cugnot – one look tells you it won’t handle like a BMW 3-series (picture)
1934 Chrysler Airflow
1956 Fiat Multipla
1967 Mohs Ostentatienne (picture)
1977 Renault 14
1980 Morris Ital – a mediocre design ruined by Ital Design
1999 Fiat Multipla
2004 Peugeot 307 CC
2006 VW Fox

All other cars can be seen on cardatabase.net.

At Shempe: “Somebodya zgonna get hurt reala bad!”

Saying such things is grounds for jail! If we don’t have them already, we need legislation to prevent such statements about the 2002.

Is it me, or is it him??

“I’d vote for the Dodge Caliber out of current production vehicles. Like a Tonka toy enlarged by nuclear radiation.”

Or like an Aztek that had shrunk in the wash.

Seriously, did someone at Chrysler look at the Aztek and say, “Hey, what a great design! Put it on the Neon platform and it will work!”?

Blaspheme!

With the Jeep Compass as well.

But my least appealing vehicle from current-production is hands-down the new Subaru Impreza in five-door guise. It looks like a mistake.

The 1990 Dodge Dynasty used to make me despair for the future:
http://consumerguideauto.howstuffworks.com/1990-to-1993-dodge-dynasty-5.htm

I always thought the mid-70s LTDs were hideous. The only right angle is a right-angle school of design. Less than 200hp out of 460 cubes was the icing on the cake…but I digress.

Datsun B210, I remember Road & Track said ‘looks like an atomic cockroach and has the outward visibility out of a bomb shelter‘

And what as the Toyota wagon that had the instant teller on the back?

More recent cars: All of the Nissan/Infinity CUVs are egregious. The BMW 7 series is and was an offense against good taste. The early 1990s M-B S class were also hideous. I called them the pig cars.

Ford usually took an ugly stick to what ever it was building before they sold it as a Mercury. The Mercury Cougars of the 60s and 70s were especially hideous.

I have always hated the Volvo P1800 The greenhouse was to small, the rear too short with ridiculous little tail fins, and the snout disproportionately long.

Others that seem to have been overlooked are the bullet-nosed, “Is it coming or going?” wrap-around rear window 1950 Studebaker Commander. I didn’t see the Toyota Echo, either.

Aside from those, it looks like the usual suspects (70’s AMC products, Edsel, Mercury Turnpike Cruiser, F10, Multipla) are all here.

However, the problem with all of this stuff is that, like a really bad movie (a la Ed Wood), they’re actually good in a perverse, interesting sort of way, the same way passing motorists stare at a bad car accident.

The only one that really transcends the morbid curiosity factor is the Aztek, an absolutely sterling example of being able to combine not only astoundingly poor styling with blandness, as well.

It’s as if in their effort to be as ‘utilitarian’ as possible to appeal to the Jeep/Hummer crowd, the Pontiac stylists decided to use a slab-sided garbage truck as their model. What they ended up with was something that looked like the offspring of the unholy mating of a garbage truck and the old Korean Daewoo Pontiac LeMans (a little car that was plenty ugly in its own right), combining the styling of two already bad looking vehicles.

The mediocrity of the Aztek’s appearance is what takes bad auto styling to a completely new level.

Nissan has certainly had some whoppers. It’s a bit shocking how the same company that managed to produce some timeless designs such as the original Z could also create some rolling horrors.

Its the ugliest car of all time.

edit: and provided the funding for Porsche stray as far as possible from its mission and buy VW instead of re-investing in better brand faithful products like they said they would.

‘Brought to you by the Marianas Trench design school’.

In terms of the ugliest ever, well, I think it’s time for a contest, preferably one divided into coupes/convertibles, sedans/wagons, and truck/SUVs/CUVs.

That being said, I will secure first place by nominating the Matador X in the coupe category and the early 60s Imperial in the sedan category.